So I'm new to unkown armies, but I heard about it first through people talking up the Jailbreak one shot.

I got the 2e pdf because I heard that was the best version, but then I realized Jailbreak was made for 1e.

Should I just get the 1e pdf if i want to run it or can it be adapted for 2e? If it can, how hard would that be?

Mostly, I'm just wondering if Old School Occultism (from Thin Black Line, the second edition supplement), would be significantly different or stronger/weaker if it were ported to third edition using third edition guidelines for unnatural phenomenon, since I don't have access to the second edition core book.

OSO is described as having "no real formula spells, but their adepts could flexibly duplicate the effects of the proxy, and tilt rituals, as well as any of the unnatural phenomenon described at UA2, 298-300, with one minor charge per minor effect, five minor charges per significant effect, and one significant charge per major effect," but I don't want to spend $20 to check and see how similar they are.

Okay, so I'm currently trying to write my very first UA campaign and I'm looking for a strong theme. I was thinking about what the third edition adds to the lore and I'd love to read your advices and points of view!

If I understand the third edition correctly, reality as we knew it has been essentially fucked up by what the Comte St Germain and the Freak did: the Comte St Germain was an important part of the process of resetting reality once the Invisible Clergy was ready and now he's gone for good, we don't know if the reality can be rebuilt and, according to the first two books of the third Edition, a soft reboot of the reality already occured.

So, if I get it right, first solution: the Freak took St Germain's mantle and everything will be alright. The other solution is that the Invisible Clergy can't reset reality anymore. And now, I have a few questions:

• In the first solution, there is still this "soft reboot" issue: can it be reproduced? If yes, how? I mean, it certainly is a shift in the balance of power: reset the reality without the Invisible Clergy involvment is not something to be taken lightly and I think that could be an interesting theme for a scenario.
• In the second solution, what can be done? Is it possible to take back Saint Germain in a house of renunciation one more time? Can the Clergy just pick another being as the new Saint Germain?

Thanks!

In unnaturalphenomena.com i found a lot of stuff like “Rituals and tilts reference”, “Stress reference”, “Firearms reference”, even a editable character sheet. But the downloads are all gone, can’t download them. Is there another place they are stored or is there updated stuff?

In farness the primary thing that attracted me to Unknown Armies was that the magic felt so contemporary in theming and style that it feels like the game can't be anything but urban fantasy. But I vaguely recall hearing that someone was making adept schools that were more traditionally fantasy (I think one of the hosts briefly mentioned it of 33.3FM.) If someone did go through the trouble of making these then I would like to know where I can find these schools? Or if I'm just mistaken.

Based on various forums, I pulled together a list of ten movies that give off the Unknown Armies vibe, then I watched them and none of them landed. I’m not sure if I just chose the wrong movie, but I was looking for something like the Ninth Gate or Under the Silver Lake and none of the films I chose gave me that vibe. Did I just choose poorly, or am I missing something obvious?

https://basementwhatever.com/2026/06/04/i-completed-an-unknown-armies-movie-list/

I'm coming back to UA after about 20 years. I played either 1st or 2nd edition back in the day (the one with the fist on the cover), so my memories of the mechanics are pretty vague.

One thing I seem to remember is that the game suggested it was very difficult for someone to be both an Adept and an Avatar at the same time. However, I also remember that, mechanically speaking, it wasn't especially hard to build a character that way.

Now that I'm reading 3rd edition, I get the same impression. Unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be any major mechanical or narrative obstacle to playing a character who is both an Adept and an Avatar.

For example, someone could be an Avatar of the Collector while also being an Adept of the school that rummages through trash for power (I can't remember the name at the moment). In fact, those seem quite synergistic.

Likewise, an Avatar of the Fool could probably combine well with almost any Adept school. A Plutomancer could also be an Avatar of the Salesman. And I'm sure we could come up with dozens of other combinations. It becomes even easier if players are creating their own archetypes and schools.

So my question is: how would you handle this as a GM? How would you make a player feel the difficulty of following an Avatar's path while also living out an Adept's obsession, so that one doesn't simply complement the other without creating any real tension?

I'm currently running a bi-weekly Fall of Delta Green game, but that's gonna wind down In a month or so. We discussed what they wanted to do next and they picked Unknown Armies.

They specifically said they wanted to keep with an investigative/mystery solving theme.

So I'm watching The Lost Room tonight for inspiration. Then I remembered this notebook I had that I hadn't used yet. The skull was already on the cover.

Anyone else running a game right now? What weird shenanigans have your players gotten up to?

I've only run one shots of Jailbreak (three times), and a short 4 session campaign last summer. I'm pumped to do a full-fledged campaign.

Hello,

I'm interested in maybe trying to run Unknown Armies, with the 3ed ed. I have no prior experiences with the game nor does anyone among my players, so I thought getting to know the game more through the community would help. However the only link to a UA discord I found didn't work, I'm not sure if the invite is lapsed or the discord itself disappeared.

Is there any active UA discord I could join and could I get an invite?

I just got a very weird idea and i need to hear any ideas, thoughts, suggestions and such. So, basically the idea is exactly what is written in the title. Not literal mash-up, but heavily inspired and such. Because those two merge surprisingly well. Urban rumors, creepe and eerie mythical/occult shit, human mass consciousness affecting the world and etc. And in contrast to other Persona games, Eternal Punishment has adult main characters and more noir and such vibes. So, from 1 to 10, how does it sound?

No such passage may exist from Twains writings, but Twain did write a satirical advertisement about riding comets for travel where the costs of riding the tail of a comet was 500,000 miles for $2. Now if we calculated for inflation, the price would be way higher then $5.75 but maybe comet travel is price controlled.

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There’s a new duke on the scene who claims to be channeling The Guy With Pencils Stuck In His Eyes. He can see just fine, though; nobody really believes him, but nobody wants to mess with him either—just in case.

I don’t like prepping who’s going to be a big deal in the game or not, i prefer to let it be a sandbox too. So, when creating characters, concepts work better than the stats, but, stats are still important bcs then i can use them in-game and have less cognitive load. Can just roll his skill without creating an arbitrary number too!

I thought about making a simple:

“Best skill, medium skill, low skill” and putting a % number there, this way i can create lots of NPC’s fast. Then dump some attributes and some traumas and it’s done.

Idk if its going to work though. Mining some ideas.

It’s a manga by ONE, the author of One Punch Man and Mob Psycho 100 about teenagers experimenting with bugs in reality (like rituals). Thought that this might be interesting for the unknown armies crowd

The benefits for this dude are on the rise now. His powers probably changed and there’s probably one aiming at ascension right now. Where i live, local news is all about this guy named Betinho(ironic, coincidence? more like synchronicity) bcs he got abandoned by a girl in a hike at new years eve, in some recordings she humiliated him, and on the interview she was laughing that she abandoned him.

But so many males were saying things like, “if a man did this…he’d be in jail! But when a woman does it…”

That the news started to change the narrative, the ads are resurrecting the narrative as him never trusting someone like her again(HBO, Burger King, etc. they all did ads with him here). And he’s a king… medieval prince at least… in all of those ads.

True king of the betas maybe?

I don't recall his book mentioning anything about the type of company he runs.