One of the factions in UA is named Mak Attax, and I wanted to do a book about them for two reasons. One is that the group (short order cooks conspiring to undermine reality by infiltrating the world’s biggest burger chain) was perceived as too silly for the gritty tone of Unknown Armies. The other reason was that I felt UA was perhaps becoming too sunk in misery, despair, and the evil that men do.
I wrote a lot of this, but not all.
I wrote this book from beginning to end and, with it, tried to set something of a model for the UA books to follow.
A short story about murder, unreliable psychic powers, and spectral abuse. It’s vaguely Unknown Armies related.
Mostly about a fitness instructor turning her trauma into unreliable magick powers. It’s a lil’ bit Unknown Armies.
A tragic tale of fitness, excess, Mick Peltier, Unknown Armies, and trying to make the best of a bad situation.
A slightly Unknown Armies tale about a faded rock star meeting a retired CIA psychic.
The first supplement for Unknown Armies is an interesting artifact, and not just because it has someone trying to crash a plane into a major metro area years before 9/11. One Shots was conceived as a way to get people into UA and let them hit the ground running.
I have a confession to make. Postmodern Magic is my least favorite book in the UA line, despite its consistently good sales.
This is the grief I mentioned a bit earlier.
Statosphere is what I wanted Postmodern Magick to be. I’m really pleased with just about everything in the whole damn book
The Unknown Armies campaign! To Go was originally supposed to be an appendix in Break. Today. but it got so sprawling and big that we eventually broke it out into its own damn book.
This book’s all over the map, but in a good way. This was really the point where I accepted that Chad Underkoffler’s pulp UA is as valid as my absurd tragedy UA, and James Palmer’s bleak nihilist UA.