May Day, Games and Time Travelling!

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hathhalla and ser_pounce visited today, a pair that we haven't seen since for more than a year. They're part of a semi-regular planned group (we hope) of Saturday attendees to our abode at Willsmere estate. Being May Day, we had a round of the Avalon Hill boardgame Class Struggle, which could really do of a re-write more in the game-system, but also perhaps its politics. Early game session of Eon's Quirks was significantly more enjoyable.

On a related note on Friday my review of Trail of Cthulhu was published on RPG.net after several fun sessions. Reviews of Torg and Powers & Perils are planned. Thursday was our regular Dragon Age game which will be replaced with Mouse Guard in about a month or so. This Sunday will be a continuation of my RuneQuest Prax game which has had some recent significant events.

Last Sunday our co-GMs for the GURPS Krononauts game resolved a lot of the well-known paradoxes of time-travel (grandfather paradox, free lunch paradox). With a little bit of dealing we've adopted a policy of object independence of items (including people) that have time-travelled, an observer effect for things that have not (very Phillip K. Dick), and the future not being affecting the present (because that would be too hard in actual play).

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Looking for UU RPG

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Hi there - sorry to comment on an unrelated post but not sure how else to contact you :)

I'm the mom of an RPG gamer, and we are UU members, in Fort Collins, CO, USA. I saw that you are into RPG games and also UU and I was wondering if you had ever seen a game that combines the RPG and UU principles (preferably the D20 gaming base system but not required). We are looking for something for a middle school youth group and might design our own (actually, have them help design it) but any "places to start" would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Lisa
lstroyan at gmail.com

Re: Looking for UU RPG

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Actually, I did run a game using a home-brew set of rules called "Outbreak of Heresy", based around the establishment of the Principality of Transylvania and Francis David.

Re: Looking for UU RPG

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Thanks. Are you talking about the one based on Mimesis? (http://mimesisrpg.com) Do you know if it is released yet? Do you think it relates to Unitarian principles then? I couldn't tell much about it though it looks interesting.

I also found "Living in UUville"
http://www.pitt.edu/~jdl1/UUcurric.htm#Living_in_UUville

which could be interesting, but more curriculum oriented, though it has the advantage that it can be played in a short amount of time per session.

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Not so much the game as such (really, any system would work), but much more the setting.

There is an archive of the playtest (I still need to write up the final scenes). But I think far more interesting and important is the service that came out of it.

I do like the living in UU link you provided; thanks for that! On a related note, I was very impressed by the historical novel The Last Witchfinder which has UU related people and responses, but is subtle about it. It even includes a group study guide.