[UA] Mess with this character, a lot

[Bruce MacMonkey McSpade]

>
>Hehe.  Swap Meet is awesome. :)  As far as
>roleplaying, I agree totally.  The problem is, to RP
>*any* avatar, he will have to meta-game, as his
>character is totally unaware of them as of yet.  But I
>guess, at core, what I'm really asking is, "how do you
>make 'The Pilgrim' work for a setting in which the
>characters don't travel?"

My point was my player didn't know what avatars were, either.  I noted that 
he was playing the avatar without his doing so intentionally.  So, again, I 
think the real question is "How does HE play The Pilgrim in a setting in 
which the characters don't travel?".  I think that perhaps he doesn't.  
Think of "Godwalker".  The young man Greg created (I don't have the text in 
front of me) who was playing The Mystic Hermaphrodite found himself playing 
that role through circumstance rather than choice.  It wasn't, necessarily 
his desire to play that avatar, yet he was through choices made beyond his 
control.  Newbie characters may not know that certain paths exist - yet, to 
me, the most exciting possibility is to discover you are playing a certain 
role without looking in the book and saying, "Wow, I think I'll play The 
Flying Woman.
--MacMonkey