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Old February 5th, 2008
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Originally Posted by TrippyHippy View Post
To be honest, the one game I couldn't ever quite love, was Unknown Armies.

I thought it was wittily written, had a nice set of rules, and lots of interesting ideas, but....

It was always so heavily US-centric in all it's references whilst, honestly, I'd been playing with a lot of these ideas and storylines in previous games already (CoC, OWoD, OtE, even WFRP) for years. Unknown Armies kinda felt like yesterday's news when it came out. For me, it wasn't really doing anything new.
Despite my initial scoffery at reading this, I can actually understand it. Still, Unknown Armies manages to breathe new life into the game on a daily basis as though it were still brand new. If you haven't checked out the website (which I'm sure you probably have), please do.

As for me, I'm still trying to figure out a way to run Unknown Armies. There's a lot there!
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