Unkown Armies: Other side of life
Broken people trying to fix a broken world in the occult underground in Chicago. Your obsessions lead to magic.
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SYSTEM
EXPERIENCE
AGE
$20.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Thursday – 12:00 AM UTC
Jul 24 / Session 21
2–3 Hour Duration
3 / 5 Seats Filled
Schedule
About the adventure
Unknown Armies is a game about broken people trying to fix a broken world. Are you an Adept, whose power comes from turning your obsession into Magick? Or an Avatar, who lives by one of the Archetypes to the point where the world bends to make way for you? Or are you someone who's trying to claw back their bit of peace. You care about something strongly enough that instead of ignoring it like everyone else, you feel the need to fight back. With all the strange and mysterious things that exist in the world, the hard fact is that it's not some alien entity behind all mask of the world----it's all people. In all their glory and monstrosity.
Meet the Game Master
5 years on StartPlaying
34 games hosted
Highly rated for: Inclusive, Creativity, Storytelling
About me
ImprovGM on Tiktok. I've been doing improv for over 20 years and run workshops at GenCon teaching those skills to gamers. I run a wide variety of games that focus on player run narratives that emphasize characters and emotional stakes. I've had a great time seeing how much people and scenes come alive in the workshops I've run and want to bring that to others.
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Creating your character
We'll be creating charcters during the first session. Glancing through the different types of adepts and avatars is a good idea before we make them, though PCs who aren't either of those do have more flexibility in the things they do. This is a game that handles regular people along with the magical very well, since it's not generally high powered magic.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You'll need a webcam and mic. There will be a google drive along with roll20 where we'll keep most information and create any other documents we need. Occasionally, your web browser or google earth is useful because Unknown Armies always seems to gift me with real world things that seem custom made for our game.
What Mikel (ImprovGM) brings to the table
We'll use Roll20 for character sheets and to keep information and notes and I'll bring everything that's needed, included information about character abilities. It'll be mainly theatre of the mind style play.
Homebrew rules
No homebrew rules
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Webcam
Internet
Platforms used
Safety
How Mikel (ImprovGM) creates a safe table
There will be a Lines and Veils document that we use where we can dial our expectations in together. We will also do a Palette, which is where we can decide what are the things we're interested in seeing during the game and what things we're really not that interested in. During character creation, we will create the conspiracy board which will look at the things we, as a group, are interested in delving into. This will allow us to make sure we're all interested, comfortable, and invested in the direction of gameplay. There will also be check ins.
Content warnings
Safety tools used