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April 20, 2005
GoO Thread of the Week: Rat Bastard Amber
Here's a (mostly concluded) thread from the Guardians of Amber board about how to run a Rat Bastard Amber game--the "traditional" Amber game where everybody is out to get everybody else.
As far as Amber is concerned, I'm in the Arref camp: rat-bastard to decent-person games are more interesting to me. But the thread also interested me in other genres/games that could be run Rat Bastard style: Sorcerer, noir detective games, Shadowrun (which my local Houston group ran Rat Bastard style before I met them), or possibly a "serious" Paranoia game. A short arc with one of those might be a lot of fun if everyone knew going in that it was a Rat Bastard game.
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IMHO, the equation here is blood-simple.
Rat-bastard who is just a rat-bastard, and therefore has no moral conflict between his amoral End and his amoral Means: BORING.
Rat-bastard who is also a noble person pursuing a goal that is worthy, and therefore has endless moral conflicts between his moral End and his amoral Means: Okay, that's not horrible.
Multiple noble people, pursuing goals that are worthy but contradictory, who want to use nice, moral tactics, but can't, because everybody ELSE is a rat-bastard, and they need to be nastier in order to win out, and surely you want them to win out, because their goal is so noble after all: NOW you're talking.
Posted by: TonyLB at Apr 29, 2005 10:18:24 AM
