[UA] Campaign help - or sanity - needed

[Corey Liss]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:27:29PM +0000, Gareth Hanrahan wrote:
> THE PLAYERS: So, what're we playing?
> ME: Er, I dunno. I tried to get you to pick a game during the week, but...
> THE PLAYERS: Yeah, yeah. We didn't bother.
> ME: Well, I've got lots of roleplaying games.
> THE PLAYERS: Cool. What's this one?
> ME: Unknown Armies. It's modern day occult weirdness. Like Twin Peaks, or a
> Tim Powers' book.
> THE PLAYERS: Right, we're playing that. What do we do?
> ME: Well, we need to come up with a campaign structure...
> THE PLAYERS: *thirty minutes of random weirdness, including criminals who
> work for the FBI by night and rob banks by day, or a collision of every 80s
> tv show ever, or a band of soldiers who are affected by a weird artefact in
> Iraq so they appear Middle Eastern by night and white by day*
> ME: So...we're going for a gang of bank robbers who-
> THE PLAYERS: No! Better idea!
> 
> The upshot of it all is that the PCs are all former American Presidents,
> raised from the dead by a mysterious cult in order to save the soul of the
> USA. We've got Washington, Kennedy, JFK, Nixon and the real George Bush Jr
> (the guy in the White House at the moment is an evil imposter).
> 
> I have absolutely no idea where this came from, or where to go with it yet.
> Ideas?

Well, you might mine this guy's idea -- he's been down this same road
before:

http://bryant.livejournal.com/466416.html


-Corey