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Message no. 1
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Faeries anyone?
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 11:27:06 +0200
Would anyone be interested in seeing a conversion from Faeries for Ars
Magica to Shadowrun appear in NERPS: Paranormals?


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Message no. 2
From: "S.F. Eley" <gt6877c@*****.GATECH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Faeries anyone?
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 17:36:06 -0400
> Would anyone be interested in seeing a conversion from Faeries for Ars
> Magica to Shadowrun appear in NERPS: Paranormals?

Don't know anything about Ars Magica, but I'd definitely love to see some
stats about Faeries. (Says the Pagan.) >8->


Blessings,

_TNX._

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Message no. 3
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Faeries anyone?
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 13:34:18 +0200
>> Would anyone be interested in seeing a conversion from Faeries for Ars
>> Magica to Shadowrun appear in NERPS: Paranormals?
>
>Don't know anything about Ars Magica, but I'd definitely love to see some
>stats about Faeries. (Says the Pagan.) >8->

The intention would be to write something that converts the whole book to
Shadowrun -- that means you'll need to buy the Faeries book in order to use
most of the article, so it would probably not be too much of a copyright thing*

So not just stats, also some new spells, information on how to enter
Arcadia, faeries roads, and so on. J.D., do you want to print this or should
I do it myself?


* = I'm saying this to reassure all you Americans that WotC probably won't
think anything of it if we recommend everyone to buy the book -- after all,
that means they make more money then...


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Message no. 4
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@************.ORG>
Subject: Re: Faeries anyone?
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 08:54:56 -0400
On Sun, 2 Jul 1995, Gurth wrote:

> The intention would be to write something that converts the whole book to
> Shadowrun -- that means you'll need to buy the Faeries book in order to use
> most of the article, so it would probably not be too much of a copyright thing*
>
> So not just stats, also some new spells, information on how to enter
> Arcadia, faeries roads, and so on. J.D., do you want to print this or should
> I do it myself?

A book conversion starts getting into sticky areas of copyright,
so it'd probably be best to either keep it seperate or just include basic
conversion rules & let people do it themselves.

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Message no. 5
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Faeries anyone?
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 12:24:20 +0200
> A book conversion starts getting into sticky areas of copyright,
>so it'd probably be best to either keep it seperate or just include basic
>conversion rules & let people do it themselves.

The idea is to convert the stats and other game mechanics, and for the rest
say "Read the book, page xx, and change Difficulty X into Target Number Y."
So the idea is to do just the basics, not rewrite the whole book :) Much
along the lines of the ghost article in one of the NAGEEs, I think.
And what if we/I don't quote anything straight from the book but instead say
it in our/my own words?

Anyway, just say "yes" or "no" :)


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Message no. 6
From: "Brian A. Stewart" <bstewart@***.UUG.ARIZONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Faeries anyone?
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 12:09:04 -0700
>Would anyone be interested in seeing a conversion from Faeries for Ars
>Magica to Shadowrun appear in NERPS: Paranormals?
>
>
>Gurth@******.nl - Gurth@***.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
> It's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
>Geek Code v2.1: GS/AT/! -d+ H s:- !g p?(3) !au a>? w+(+++) v*(---) C+(++) U
>P? !L !3 E? N++ K- W+ -po+(po) Y+ t(+) 5 !j R+(++)>+++$ tv+(++) b+@ D+(++)
>B? e+ u+@ h! f--(?) !r(--)(*) n---->!n y? Unofficial Shadowrun Guru :)
>

Sure, why not. The data the better. Then it is easier for us gm's to make
life even harder for the players. They hate it when I do that.

Brian Alan Stewart
When freedom becomes an obsession,
Like any obsession,
It bind tighter than any laws or chains---
Freedom comes from Within, not from Without.

-BAS

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