[UA] [OT] Reign

[Saul]

Gimme gimme. Please.

Saul

"Unknown Armies -- A Roleplaying Game of Power and Weird Hairiness"


----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Stolze" <holycrow at mindspring.com>
To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] [OT] Reign


> >> I think of it as blue-collar, agnostic fantasy.
> >
> >So there's magic, but low-key non-world-threatening/saving magic, are
> >there other fantasy tropes
> >like funky races and weird beasts? ...Dungeons?
>
> Weird beasts yes, funky races no... with a caveat.  If you're serious
about
> your magic, you can transform your body to channel it better.
Specializing
> like this  makes you quicker off the mark with your spells, at the cost of
> never being able to cast spells outside your specialty.  If done right,
you
> get physical mutations that are weird and/or beneficial -- stuff like
> growing wings or bleeding flame or developing useful (if hideous) serpent
> features.  If done wrong, you just get weird.
>
> Really, a lot of the use of fantasy races seems to play out as
> crypto-racism.  So instead of falling into that, I just went with the
> source and provided a game where genuine racism is a very real social
force.
>
> Magic can be pretty buff.  There's a spell on the lists that lets you kill
> everyone you see, and you can do it selectively -- so, stand on a mountain
> and kill everyone who's wearing the other guy's colors.  It can be
resisted
> (a bit) and it takes ten hours to cast, and everyone within many miles is
> likely to know you're cooking something up... but the potential is there.
>
> -G.
>
> Cultivate efficient neurosis.
>
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