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Icons Unbound is a series of articles intended

you and on your players. The main difficulty

to help game masters run Kult, by providing

here is Keeping the mystery intact and not

help and information. My hope is to provide

giving too much away, what i can suggest is

hints on running Kult, and detail Icons...

keep the characters (And thus the players)

ignorant of the truth, if that means you have

By Icons I mean Personalities, Cults, and

to change the cosmology here and there, then

Artifacts.

by all means do so. Mix elements from your

I intend to detail several personalities and

favorite fiction and other games in if you feel

their role in the lie, Personalities such as

it appropriate. Hold the characters back from

Rasputin and JFK, And artifacts such as the

really learning anything important, but feed

Holy Grail.

them enough to feel they have accomplished

something.. and if they think they have

Before I start to detail these Icons, I would

figured something out... cheat and change it...

like to discuss Kult itself.

Keep them ignorant. When they do find out

One of the most difficult things about

that reality is a lie and somehow they have

running Kult is the fact that most who play it,

stepped into Metropolis... next game have

know too much about it for any of "reality" to

them step into Gaia... keep the facets of

be of much effect. I usually encourage a

reality ever changing... don't let them become

purist/canon view on the game setting,

used to one aspect or another.

however I also encourage creativity to keep

Players are clever people, they will always find

the game fresh for the players.

some way to foil even your most clever plans..

For example, canon material states that the

expect that to happen. One way to try and

Demiurge is missing and or dead... the way I

avoid that however is distraction.. you think

try to run Kult, the Demiurge is very much

the characters might be on the right track?

alive, only vanished. Condemned to the same

throw them off with a bit of violence, have

state he has trapped us in. Trapped in

their houses robbed, Kill off a family member.

forgetfulness.

Do something to shake their world up a bit.

When faced with some overwhelming puzzle,

In the Games I run, it is doubtful that the

don't provide hints... it's better to have them

players will ever encounter such Icons as the

give up than to let them know everything.

Demiurge and Astaroth, but it's still useful to

Kult is about helplessness afterall.

have your ideas set before running a game,

have your cosmology set so you have

If the rules or the setting hinder you, change

something to fall back onto and to power

them, this is your reality, don't let banality

your games.

ruin your game.

Kult can be very difficult to run extensively,

The other thing I have to talk about is

small one shots are easy and fun to run, but an

description. This can be a tricky topic in a

ongoing campaign can be difficult, both on

game where pus filled flesh regularly gets

centotaphium volume five consecro abortivus inferi

rended from rotting black bones, but some

things I would see when I walked into some

people can just take more than others, even

dark room.

within the same gaming group... so you may

In closing, another thing to remember in

find yourself asking where do I draw the line?

Kult, That humans should have recognizably

You don't... Kult is also about shock, if you

human motives behind things, not sane

feel the need to describe a violent rape and

perhaps, but human... the need for love(lust),

have the victim explode messily afterward,

money, power or what have you. On the other

but you think one of your players might find

side of this coin are our jailers... they

it offensive... too bad, go to the hilt with it..

shouldn't have human motives.. in fact

go ahead and describe the brown semen

characters shouldn't even know why they do

leaking out a bloodied hole... if they can't

things at all.. they should remain as much a

handle the descriptions, they should go back

mystery as possible.

to playing with their elves, Kult is not childs

Next column will have more

play, and should be treated accordingly.

until then, thanks for reading

When you try and describe a setting, don't let

yourself get trapped in the D&D description

-v

mode... you know the one... "You find

yourself in a 40 by 40 room, it's dark and

smells bad, there seems to be one door to the

side"

This can kill a good Kult game faster than

anything... instead try to say "You enter the

room from a moss caked doorway, a sickly

odor assaults your nostrils and makes you

want to vomit" And try to make the room

seem smaller than it really is, that should set

off anyone afraid of enclosed spaces, unless

you intend the opposite effect of course... say

in a cathedral, you'll want it to seem much

larger than it really is. If there is something

obviously important in the room, be sure and

describe it first... a 12 foot gold statue of a

lictor is surely going to be one of the first

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