[UA] Re: Adepts/Avatars (was Thoughts on Fan Based...)

[Chris Cooper]

--- Chad Eagleton <ceagleto at yahoo.com> wrote:

Regarding Adepts and Avatars and the combos.

First of all there's a tendency to stereotype adepts
of an almond short of a toxic nutbar. Every assumes
all adepts are gibbering schizophrenics with poor to
no hygiene. 

They actually aren't. The worst an adept has to be is
one Failed and one Hardened notch in their Unnatural
meter. Avatars? Nothing. Avatars need no notches.

How many adepts are unconscious avatars? The same
percentage as normal mundane people. How many adepts
get clued-in to avatars? A bit more than normal
mundane people. Even if they see each other and weirdo
versions of themselves, there's crossing over.

The trick is to make it up the mixture yourself. What
about cabals that worship an archetype and everyone
needs to be its priests? Are you going to forbid
everyone from playing adepts?

>      And then to make a mixture of the two common?
> Enter my White Wolf comment
to me you might as well
> make every homeless man an Urbanomancer, every hot
> chick a Pornomancer, stick a Dipso in every bar,
> make
> sure the bike messenger beside you is channeling his
> archetype, give every fast food restaurant its own
> magic conspiracy, make sure all the villains are
> Executioner/Thantomancers and bring on the demons.
>     But beyond all that—hey, it’s whatever works for
> you.

This was certainly never any of my White Wolf games.
I've seen them like this but never ran them like this.
My answer to this was that White Wolf made
role-playing games for munchkin games masters. I do
not think I am part of WW's old target audience.

When designing a UA game, I at least sketch out all my
occultists beforehand. 

If all your players wanted to play
Entropomancer/Masterless Men or
Epideromancer/Warriors, then its a problem with your
players, not the system.

C.



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