[UA] Personomancers

[Russell Rayburn]

On 3/23/07, Christopher Bedford <xombie-master at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Yeah, you just may have gotten the two switched up but it's fine, your
> point is still pretty clear.
>
>  I guess it kinda could be cheating to just allow a fictional character to
> exist in your reality.
>
>  I can't see though why iconomancy wouldn't branch out into the more popular
> fictional characters.  After all, I think that a lot of people idolize them
> more than real living people, and sadlyY some "real" people are more
> fictional than any film or novel protagonist.
>
>  My knowledge of all the different avatars and adepts is rusty, but since
> I successfully ran my first UA game this past week I'm definately gonna
> reread all the books.
>
>


Seems like I should do some rereading as well.

I agree: to many people the fictional character is far more real than
the actor.  Frankly, these days it seems if you wanted to be more like
the actor or actress, all you'd have to do is get arrested and go to
rehab.  Head shaving optional.

One thought though... if you did want to let a fictional character
into your game world, one could say it was inspired by a real person,
and use the real person as the inspiration.

A cliomatic ritual might ensure "everybody knows" who the real-life
inspiration for the cinematic hero is.  Conversely, telling an
iconomancer that he's impersonating a fake might be the equivalent of
telling a "baked" stoner that he's been smoking oregano.  Might be
just as funny as well.

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but just a van and a few puppies to catch one.

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