[Let’s Study: Trinity Continuum Core] Part 1 Introduction

I was a latecomer to the the original Trinity line of products from White Wolf. Fully invested in Mage: the Ascension at the time, I was only able to buy the Aberrant and Adventure! core rules and run a few scant games before falling back to a massive Ascension campaign for the rest of my […]

[Let’s Study: Unknown Armies] Review of Book One: Play

Unknown Armies is one of those books that would survive a bookshelf purge after a post-New Year’s viewing of “Tidying up with Marie Kondo”. It sparks the same kind of perverse joy on reading that puts me in the same bewildered headspace as I felt after I’d finished Grant Morrison’s “The Invisibles”. I feel that […]

[Let’s Study: Unknown Armies] Part 7: Adepts

Nothing encapsulates the sheer weirdness and unique occult vibe of Unknown Armies than Adepts. Rather than embodying what the collective unconscious believes to be aspects of (capital “H”) Humanity, Adepts forge their own dangerous path to magic. Adepts are people who have a unique vision of the universe that allows them to basically give reality […]

[Let’s Study: Unknown Armies] Part 6: Avatars and Archetypes

One of the most interesting concepts in Unknown Armies remains to be the Invisible Clergy, an assembly of 333 Archetypes, these are immortal representations of aspects of humanity. To become an Archetype, a human being has to be the purest representation of one of these aspects. These range from concepts such as The Captain, The […]

[Let’s Study: Unknown Armies] Part 5: Weirdness

Holy crap that took a while, but I’m back. And out of respect to this phenomenal game, I’m continuing the Let’s Study series covering the first book of Unknown Armies with a look at the Weirdness of the World chapter. As the title of the chapter suggests, Unknown Armies has a very strong focus on […]