[UA] Avatar: The Gamer Help

[David Lowe]

If I did that I'd be making Happiness Function references left and right and
then devolve into Piers Anthony Xanth jokes.

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Chris Cooper <insectking at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> --- On *Fri, 6/6/08, David Lowe <david.joseph.lowe at gmail.com>* wrote:
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> From: David Lowe <david.joseph.lowe at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [UA] Avatar: The Gamer Help
> To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
> Date: Friday, June 6, 2008, 4:13 PM
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>  I was trying to spread out among all gamers, and focused too much
> apparently. I read "The Stragestist" and after failing to name a modern one
> thought of what the archetype could be now.
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> The Notional Tactician?
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> I read a book a long time ago which said that both gambling (cards, craps,
> roulette) and modern social games, (lottery, bingo, numbers) board games
> (chess, checkers, ludo) where derived from very old board games, which in
> turn where derived from ancient divination systems.
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> I mucked about with an adept school (as did a couple of others) which
> exploited this theme. I'm sure your Strategist could encompass Game Theory
> and war games, the National/State Lottery, the stock exchange, social
> anthropology, mobs, etc.
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