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{{quote|''"You did it!"''}}
'''Unknown Armies''' (abbreviated UA) is an occult-themed [[Role-Playing Game]] by John Tynes and Greg Stolze and published by Atlas Games. Subtitled "A roleplaying game of power and consequences". Nicknamed "Cosmic Bumfights: The RPG".
The game is divided into three levels: street, global, and cosmic. At the street level, you know only this: there is something very weird happening, and you've had a glimpse of it. Now you're about to find out just how strange the world really is. Only at the global level do you learn the truth: magick is real, it's postmodern, and it's everywhere.
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* [[Literary Allusion Title]]: "Unknown Armies" is a line cribbed from [[William Butler Yeats]].
* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: mechanically, any individual who is alone for prolonged periods of time ''will'' fill up the Isolation failed bar to go insane or head a long way toward going sociopath.
* [[Made of Iron]]: While combat is very deadly, certain adepts and
* [[Mama Bear]]: A powerful avatar of the Mother gets big bonuses whenever defending someone that sees them as a mother figure.
* [[Masquerade]]: The occult underground stays hidden because whenever magic is discovered by the public, murder is soon to follow. The core book cites numerous instances throughout history in which accused magic-users have been lynched ''en masse''. They even have (pretty elegant) rules for angry mobs and their consequences.
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