[UA] UA:cults

[Mattias Östklint]

The biggest problem with playing cults scary is that when you play there's
you against several players, while in real cult life there's several
cultists against one outsider (Mormons always come in pairs). One trick is
to split the party and let those players whose characters are absent play
cultist extras, best if it's prepared in advace with advice to the cultist
players. If you can change the playing area in some way (quick: change
music, change the lights and remove the table) it's even better.

Now that I think of it, notes on how to play cults is probably something
that should be in the book if it ever happens.

Maybe we should do a systemless book of cults?

Mattias Östklint             tel:   036-146856
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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