Drawing roles from a hat

  • vanAdamme
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    Anybody read The Invisibles by Grant Morrison? They’re a team of psychedelic god-summoning mind-fucking freedom fighters. Every now and again they will draw an element (earth, air, fire, water and spirit – no, not like Captain Planet) out of a bag and assign roles to each member. Just to shake things up a little.

    It doesn’t really explain the roles very well though. Air represents the leader and earth is to do with all things mundane (resources and stuff like that). I’m trying for some ideas for the others. Fire I think would be information/disinformation. Not sure about the others. They’d have to be roles that anybody could manage, albeit in their own style. Something appropriate for a UA campaign as well, obviously.

    Any thoughts?

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  • Blindy
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    Hello,

    The Invisibles are one of my favorites comic books and I readed it a lot a long time before I knew UA, actually I liked UA first because it made me think about the Invisibles.
    Indeed there is an elemental consctrut to the hero group, but it’s also writen like a initiatic quest novel and a universal conflict and so much more.

    It’s somewhat criptic but Grant Morrison took many kinds of substances at that time, he was also so sick he almost died for one or two years and he claimed to be abducted by aliens, an experiment thet supposedly leaded to the creation of the Invisibles. Or so he says.

    If you liked it I suggest the purchase of the commentary book “anarchy for the masses”. It’s hard to find but it’s very interesting to read. Grant Morrson told later about it something like : “it good you did the interview so soon after the books because i took so much drugs back then i can’t recall what i meant by that”.

    Anyway there is so much inspiration in it for UA that it makes my head spin.

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