[UA] Re: BoUA

[Ville Halonen]

Thuvasa3 <thuvasa3 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'd be all about UA: Cults! :P
> 
> Specifically, I don't really grok how to turn the UA
> in the book (or, the in the book UA from my mind,
> anyway), into the sort of greasy, nasty, dirty, messed
> up, beginning of Lord of Illusions type cults.

I'd be drooling blood all over it! (he said, sitting on his summoning circle)

I don't like bags of miscellaneous stuff like most of PoMoMa -- I mostly get
bored and read it in bits -- so my idea of UA: Cults is part real-life stuff
à la HH and LG$(on methods such as brainwashing etc.); part essays on how to
build your own, UA-like cult (clued-in AND clueless); a few examples,
including fleshed-out versions of some cults mentioned in the earlier
sourcebooks; comments on how real-life rituals, chants, amulets etc. don't
do jack (except for a few, which do jack in a very UA fashion); an overlook
at anti-cult organizations (e.g. St. Cecil -- I've never fancied a whole
book on them). Maybe top it off with a few new rituals, maybe even include
some info on real-life secret societies and their UAbility.

In my view, that'd be a strong contender for the best UA sourcebook
ev-v-v-vah. Like Hush Hush, only less classy and more morbid.

-V