[UA] Avatar: The Gamer Help

[Eslington ~]

Mechanically, I like the 1-50% channel the most, and think the 71-90%
channel is probably overpowered. (Once you've got it, that's an almost
universal, quite reliable paradigm skill. Goodbye possibility of
insanity!)

Overall, I think the concept is maybe a little too tounge in cheek, yes.

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What I think we'd see more often is gamers who end up channeling
archetypes when they get a little too into their characters.

You know who I mean. The guy who LARPs as Legoland the elf on
weekends, has his wall covered in aluminium elf-blades, always plays
the same character at his game meetings ("But Jim, we're playing
Serenity. There are no elves in space!"), tries to live by "elfish law
and wisdom" in public and is working on legally changing his name.

That kind of guy, if he chose a role close to an archetype, could
channel it pretty effectively.

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For "The Gamer", I'm thinking there must be some kind of strategist
archetype (In this modern age, it's probably "The General", since
leaders riding out to war with their troops is largely outdated.)
which someone could channel.

I'm thinking there's a guy out there, with the wargaming obsessiveness
of Parson Gotti (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf.html) and a nerdy
military self-image similar to Arnold Rimmer's (Red Dwarf), who
accumulates enough symbols and gaming victories* that he's able
accidentally break the barrier from his subtle 1-50% channel to the
slightly less ignorable 51-70% channel, despite never having joined
the army and never having dirrected a real
guns-death-and-other-unpleasentness battle.

*He even has this little ritual where he plants a tiny homemade flag
bearing his homemade coat of arms into his opponent's wargaming
terrain when he wins a game.
That's still not quite as obnoxious as those chessmaster bastards down
at the park who knock over your king and stub out their cigarettes in
the square of your defeat.