Each player in turn brings one new location or GM character into play. They then draw a line connecting it to either their own character or a different element that has been introduced.
Here are some random high-level character concepts for Unknown Armies 3.
They’re handy to start thinking about while setting a cabal objective. Customise these with passions, identities and an obsession during cabal creation.
Here’s a revised character sheet for Unknown Armies 3 campaigns and one-shots.
It includes many practical elements that aren’t in the official version that shipped with the game, but which are useful during character/cabal creation and in-play.
The character sheet is form-fillable, so can be filled in digitally or manually.
Every character in Unknown Armies has an ‘origin story’ that describes how they came across the Unnatural. In this step, each player describes their character’s experience. This is then translated into notches on their Unnatural shock meter.
The first thing players and the GM do is to agree the type of challenge they want to face, and the specific objective they want to pursue initially. They’ll set out a path with the key milestones they expect to hit as they go after it.
This is the single most important part of the character phase.
The stage is the framework of the campaign: “a loose collection of seeds for the GM to play with and the players to use as a wish list.”
Start collecting seeds to bring to the first session, at which the group will begin selecting and arranging them into the broken world they want to fix.
While Unknown Armies can handle many types of horror, it’s probably not a good idea to throw it all into the same game.
Consider the tone and style of game you do and don’t want early. These mark the boundaries and shape the landscape that will be explored during world-building.
An index to help you quickly find published and community information, including archetypes for avatars, magick traditions for adepts, spells, rituals and identity features.
Unknown Armies is a horror game that can go to dark and uncomfortable places. It should absolutely test the limits of your characters, but it certainly shouldn’t push your buttons as players.
Take time to establish the boundaries, limits and safety mechanisms of your game.
Character creation is closely wrapped up with world-building in Unknown Armies 3. The group (or cabal), its objectives, and the places and people in the world they are most closely connected to are established collaboratively in an initial character phase.
Here’s a step-by-step guide to setting up a game with a coherent party of broken characters.
