As a long time GM, I ought to have a little more in the line of independent thought. However, being new to Unknown Armies I’m not above cribbing a little in order to push affairs along the right vein. I promise I’ll submit in future…but before I do, I wouldn’t mind a couple of suggestions. After this, I’ll be so giving! You’ll love it! Ahem…anyway:
One of my PC’s is determined to explore magick in the game. He doesn’t know what it constitutes, how it works, or even if it exists…but he wants it. It’s a nice position for me to be in….I could feed him literally anything. My opening campaign conceit, is that all the PC’s attend the same Jungian group therapy sessions (such a bunch of Freudians…they found Jung’s notion of the Universal Unconscious more bizarre than ‘Bill In Three Persons’, which is the first scenario I’ve run for them). The PC in question sees street signs, cereal packets, TV magazines and other assorted text in modern life, as having some grand significance. Sometimes the text is replaced by odd messages (most of which I steal from Philip K. Dicks post 1974 breakdown period). My question is simply thus: what potential adept paths might I steer him towards based off of this trigger event (which is also his obsession…he’s trying to compile some kind of post-modern bible from this information)? I’d love to hear some suggestions.
That’s all for now. I hope that was coherent. Don’t burn me too bad! 🙂
You can buy it from Warehouse 32, Steve Jackson Games’ online store. I paid about $23, and it’s worth that and then some. Really, one of the best books written for UA.
I paid $50 and its worth it. Really well written and as always with magick make up a paradox if your having trouble tossing him into a niche. Allow his twisted view to become the right one. I would just keep going with it, see what he believes he can do and allow him to do it once in awhile. The best way to keep a player enthralled is to leave mystery. Nothing sucks dry the imagination such as reading the entire book of a series based on keeping players in the dark. See make it something only you know!
Also, geomancy might work. I think it is from the same book as Mac Attack. It has nothing to do with geography or geology, but just with systems such as roads, politics, cities, and the like.
You might consider Anagram Gematria. That’s also in Break Today, the Mak Attax book. Significance of words via the way you can rearrange them and such.
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