[UA] The future of UA? (Was Godwalker Preorders)

[Bruce MacMonkey McSpade]

>From: "Cassady Toles" <con_job at excite.com>
>Reply-To: con_job at excite.com,The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List 
><ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
>To: ua at lists.unknown-armies.com
>Subject: Re: [UA] The future of UA? (Was Godwalker Preorders)
>Date: Sun,  1 Feb 2004 16:24:36 -0500 (EST)
>
>I agree with Toles - it is a brilliant game.  I owned over $150 worth of 
>product before I even considered running it.  Every sourcebook was amazing 
>and as I read I kept thinking these guys are geniuses.  CoC: I was a 
>Lovecraft fan long, long before I ever played the game but it earned me the 
>moniker of The Great Buthulhu in area gaming circles.  Familiarity with the 
>fiction accounts for something I guess.  But folks, we're talking about a 
>work of fiction here not a sourcebook.  If Atlas doesn't want to print 
>fiction that's their business.  I for one loved Legacy and the other 
>fiction element of the sourcebooks but maybe the powers that be didn't see 
>the potential.  I and many others do see it and will support it and Greg's 
>efforts.  Carry on, Man!.
Bruce

"Fuck the critics - they don't know what's going on.  Sam Shepard, "The 
Tooth of Crime".

>I suspect the market failures of UA are less based on the half-dozen gamers 
>who pirate copies of role-playing games (I suspect illegal downloads 
>probably affect sales of d20 substantially more than UA).  I suspect, 
>rather that UAis ultimately stymied by the precise reasons that I so enjoy 
>it.
>
>The only game I can't explain with this system that I can think of is CoC.  
>I didn't read Lovecraft until after I played the game.  I suspect it got a 
>foothold as the first horror game, and pulled a horror crowd even if that 
>crowd, like myself, didn't know Lovecraft.
>
>If the market won't support UA, that sucks.  It's a brilliant game, but I 
>think its more fringe market in the industry is more to blame than illegal 
>internet distribution.

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