[UA] 1st v 2nd edition

[Liam Routt]

Sean Goodroad wrote:
> I'm planning on starting a new campaign with my
> new group but I was wondering if it would be worth picking up and using
> second edition... any thoughts? what are the improvments or not so
> improvments of second versus first?

My feeling is that the second edition is better in pretty much every way 
possible (and some that are probably not even possible). I was, frankly, 
fairly amazed when I got it.

It is rewritten from a number of viewpoints, which helped me, as a GM, and 
seem to be excellent in terms of understanding the various levels the 
characters can approach the game.

It tightens some of the mechanics a bit, and improves combat (although I 
still don't used what is printed, but it is a step in the right 
direction). Paradigm skills are cool.

Lots more rumours and information about the different groups and ways to 
approach the occult underground. This stuff is good for the GM and for the 
players.

And a lot more, besides. Its hard for me to think back to the first 
edition now, actually, so I can't really recall all the differences (and 
I've lent my first ed book to a player so she can run a one-shot for some 
of her other friends).

Others may not agree (somewhere), but I'd rate UA 2nd edition as one of 
the best "new editions of an existing game" I've ever read. And that's on 
top of being one of the best rulesbooks I've ever owned.

Flip through it in a store, if you can. Check the starts of the major 
sections, and dip here and there. That's going to be the best way to see 
whether it will work well for you.

Take care,

Liam
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Liam Routt                                               liam at routt.net
Darcsyde Productions                     http://www.routt.net/Caligari/

        -- still waiting for the Absolute Destiny Apocalypse --

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