The Snake (was Re: [UA] Fudge?)

[Ted Prodromou]

Have you written up channels for The Snake?  I'd love
to see that Avatar.

It reminds me of the old story of the frog and the
scorpion, quoted in The Crying Game....

Jody: ...and as they both sink beneath the waves, the
frog cries out, "Why did you sting me, Mr. Scorpion?
For now we both will drown!" Scorpion replies, "I
can't help it. It's in my nature!" 

--- Mike Lake <mdlake at well.com> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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
> 
> 
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