[UA] Mess with this character, a lot

[Zach Johnson]

Bruce MacMonkey McSpade wrote:

>
>>
>> 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

Hmm... the non-travelling Pilgrim.  He could either be the Cosmic Couch 
Potatoe or the Living Monument, to whom people travel, and he learns 
about the world through what information people give him.  Perhaps a new 
interpretation of the archetype, or another archetype altogether. 

Z