[UA] Bueller? Bueller?

[Chris Hall]

I've played two one-shots: Jailbreak and a re-written version of "...and I Feel
Fine." I've been a PC in both, and am slowly working my confidence up to GM a
game, something that I've never done in all my years of gaming. One of my major
problems is finding a place to hold a game, given that I live in Brooklyn in a
fairly small one-bedroom. However, assuming that I'll eventually overcome that
problem, I've decided to use "Carcosa, NJ" as my GMing training wheels, and
eventually cook up a campaign of my own. I currently have two campaign ideas
simmering in my brain.

The first I've partially written out: it takes place in a (fictional) failing
old rust-belt town sitting on the east bank of Lake Erie in upstate New York
named Coxscomb. The PC's would be members of a collective squat; even though
it's a collective, the squat has for years been the main responsibility and
passion of one woman (a PC), who's an Avatar of the Mother. She fills the
maternal role for both the characters in the squat and the homeless, hapless
people living in the local Tenderloin district where the squat is located.

The struggle driving the campaign would be the efforts of a local minister who
runs a storefront church/sanctuary/soup kitchen who wants to promote himself to
the role of the local Father, and to establish a more subservient, passive woman
in the role of the Mother. This means eliminating the PC Mother Avatar and the
squat itself.

The second is more general and vague at this point: I'm toying with the idea of
doing a Carnivale-type campaign centered around a circus touring the American
countryside somewhere in the 1930's - 1950's. I like the idea of the Dust Bowl
period in the 30's because of the images of death that it provides; not only
people dying, but the land itself, thanks to poor agricultural techniques. I'm
doing some research on the history of circuses and freakshows right now, hoping
more ideas will come to me.

Chris

Quoting Thuvasa3 <thuvasa3 at yahoo.com>:

> I was thinking the same thing.
>
> For discussion purposes--How many of you are actually
> playing the game vs. just reading it or being
> interested in it?  If you're playing, are you using
> only the published scenarios, or are you making up
> your own or what?  If you're making up your own, what
> are they?  Share!
>
> Jonathan