Stephen Alzis

Bodybags manipulate probabilities to make events go more to their liking or even rewrite the past, provided they take some potentialy serious risks to charge up.

Also, they can carve mystical nonsense symbols into your flesh just by looking at you funny. Ouch.

Chair Leg of Truth. Anyone you beat up is compelled to spill the beans.

Actualy, I was asking you for more, ’cause I honestly couldn’t think of any others.

Oh, one thing though: Silent Hill 1 soundtrack, track 38, “Killing Time”. If someone out of the blue made a UA tv show, that is what would be playing during the opening credits.

The UA mailing list is usually pretty active, not to mention the fact that Stolze and Tynes are themselves members and frequent posters.

Up front, I’d say the only real weakness UA has is that it can require a bit more player/Gm communication than some others, such as when deciding skills and such. A lot is left in the Gm’s hands, but that’s pretty typical for any rules-lite system.

Strength wise, where do I even start? One of the best and, more importantly for me, simple set of rules I’ve ever seen in a game, the stress meters (best madness rules ever), a very cool take on magic(k)…

Ultimately my favorite thing of all is the setting. A great system is nice and all, but add on one of the most original and downright fun worlds in rpg history and you’ve got one hell of a game.

“if you get really stuck tell the players that they suddenly wake up in a barn which is painted all over with pictures of winged cattle, they are tied to what looks like a clockwork ride-on lawnmower, and there is a note attached to it saying ‘first one to Paris gets to live’.”

You know, the one thing I love about UA above all else is the fact that this kind of thing happening makes perfect sense.

Or maybe he’s just a big fan of Unknown Armies and decided to subtely plug the game on national tv.