Atlas Games is one of the publishers participating in New Gamemaster Month this year! We’re focusing on Greg Stolze’s Unknown Armies, the award-winning horror game in which:
- magick is real
- broken people try to fix a broken world
- avatars personify everything humanity chooses to be
- adepts pursue absolute power
- the secret masters of the universe are frighteningly human
First: You can check out my interview with ENWorld about New Gamemaster Month, along with Charles Ryan, Michael O’Brien, Cat Tobin, Tom Lommel, and Shane Ivey.
Second: You can check out the New Gamemaster Month website, where you can choose your game and check out the step-by-step guide for creating and running your first adventure as a rookie GM!
Third: You can join us on Discord, where we’ll be swapping tips and chatting about our nefarious plans.
IMO the best single thing you could produce for new UA GMs is an adaption to UA 3E of Jailbreak from One-Shots (2E). That is a fantastic self-contained introduction to the setting for both GMs and players. The basic structure of the scenario naturally favors low prep and a slow roll of introducing the system’s mechanics.
(Also, it’s a small one-shot, so it could feasibly, though probably rushedly, be adapted within the month if low production values on art and typesetting are an acceptable cost.)