[UA] New game starting up - any advice?

[Greg Stolze]

>Hi
>
>I'm about to start running UA for mature group of gamers brought up on a
>heady mix of DnD.  I joined the group and started running for them a
>while back - I helped them to kick the DnD habit, and have been running
>SLA Industries and more recently Cthulhu.  I think they are just about
>ready to be let loose on UA, but wondered if anyone had any cool ideas,
>suggestions for a group like this - I can't decide whether to run them
>as street level norms breaking in to the bigger picture, TNI squad or
>Maks - anyone been here before and can shed some experience?

I can think of a really cool way to do it.  It's a bit labor intensive, though.

You figure out a focus for your campaign -- something that works on the
street, global and cosmic levels.

Then you set up not one, but THREE prologues.  Each is a single session
one-shot with pregen characters.  Each touches on the focus -- just enough
to shed a little light, but nothing that they can use as "out of game
knowledge".  (Best to remove temptation, right?)  Still, the cosmic level
characters give them a glimpse of the kind of thing that's REALLY going on.

If you want, you can even model the three levels on what they know.  You
start with a SLA like global TNI team getting wiped out.  (That's the
beauty of a one-shot: No one has to survive.)  Then you drop down street,
where everything looks like Cthulhu.  End with a D&D epic cosmic dungeon
crawl.  (Or not.  Hm...)  When you're done with that, look them in the eye
and say "Those all connect.  Generate some starting characters and maybe
you'll find out how."

-G.

It's a rare book that can make me feel that my house is immaculate and my
parenting is above reproach, but "The Death of Sweet Mister" did just that.

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