| From: | Kyoto the Angel dann1@********.erols.com |
|---|---|
| Subject: | UB handout (really fraggin LONG!) [was: neo-anarchists guide] |
| Date: | Fri, 5 Mar 1999 18:09:29 -0500 |
From: Neil Clark <neil.clark@**********.com>
To: Jackpoint <shadowrn@*********.org>
Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: UB handout (really fraggin LONG!) [was: neo-anarchists guide]
>>> My player group can be quite dense at times. I tried every hint and
>trick I
>>> could think of to allow the group to acquire this during the run. They
>>> didn't bite at all. It was very frustrating. Here it is, this
>wonderfully
>>> written piece of fiction that spells out a lot of answers to questions
>they
>>> had, and it was totally wasted.
>
>>Something similar happened in my group; they discovered the hand-out
>alright, but when I gave them the book they >sort of browsed through it and
>put it away because it was too much to read there and then...
>
>
> great Kibo! that sounds like a tragedy. : (
>
> personally, when I ran UB, I didn't think the Missing Blood adventure was
>worthwhile, and I didn't want to sit around for 4 hours, waiting for
>everyone to finish reading and hand it on to the next person. so, what I
>did was: ...,
>
> (I'm laying out how I handled the adventure blow-by-blow. maybe this
will
>be useful for GMs planning to run the adventure in the future...as I felt
my
>strain of the UB adventure worked wonderfully, and Missing Blood by itself
>is kind of lame and anticlimatic, in my humble opinion)
>
<SNIP!>
>
> sorry if that was unbearably long, because it was. hopefully this can
>inspire some GMs to, in the future, have a much better UB adventure than I
>though Missing Blood allowed for.
>
> that took me forever to write, so if you GM's who read this have any
>creative thoughts or input or opinions on this, tell me?
>
>
Neil, just to say, yes, I whole-heartedly agree that your version of UB was
one of the coolest RPG things I've ever done, if not *the* coolest
I mean come on, what fun would the other one have been? I wouldn't even
have died
Kyoto the Angel
AIM: AngelKyoto
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