[UA] Fudge?

[Mike Lake]

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From: "Fabrice Gdak" <fab0666 at hotmail.com>
To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: [UA] Fudge?

> So, could you elaborate a little more
> about your use of the OTE rules to run UA ?
> Did you simply use OTE with the UA background ?
> Or did you modify thing (for ex. using the madness meter) ?

For the most part, your first guess is correct: I just used the OtE rules
for the UA background, but I am a hopeless tinkerer with RPG rules, so some
UA rules bled through.  While each individual UA die convention (damage
rolls, flip-flops, cherries, hunches) is cute, I don't like taking the whole
package, so I didn't bother preserving any of them.  Nor did I apply
passions, though there's nothing wrong with this.  If you would like to,
award a bonus die every time a passion is invoked, but be prepared for the
players to have plenty of bonus dice to spend if you do.  I did use the
madness meters and stress checks: when someone faces a stress check, have
him roll any helpful trait like "cool under pressure," "iron will," or
"open-minded," or use a 2d default.  The nastier the stressor, the higher
the target number they must match.  (How about stress level +2?)

Note that the two worlds are entirely compatible; The Edge is a place, while
UA revolves around a global subculture.  Al Amarja must surely have a
branch.  One of my adventures had PCs pursuing an NPC trying to ascend under
the Snake avatar--someone who can't help but bite a helping hand, and
therefore spirals down into increasing desperation until he has nowhere left
to run and no one left to call upon.  When one of his former friends hunts
him down, this can complete the ritual ascension.  The PCs were various
people wronged by the godwalker, and the central dilemma was how to punish
this most deserving worm when a final, horrible retribution was just what he
was seeking in order to ascend.  Guess which Mediterranean island he fled to
for his final, wretched moments?

    "Take me in, tender woman,
    Take me in for goodness sake.
    Take me in, tender woman,"
    Sighed the snake.
        --The Snake (lyrics by Oscar Brown, Jr.), inspiration for the avatar