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Message no. 1
From: Dave The Shade <IZZYUX2@*******.BITNET>
Subject: No NERPs Please
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1993 23:23:00 PDT
Not NERPs, please lets try to stay in genre, have a cool name.

Personally, I like "Tome of Shadows"

or something like "StreetReal: Survival Guide"

Or perhaps just "EDGE"






David Altman
Message no. 2
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: No NERPs Please
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 10:42:24 -0500
On Sun, 24 Oct 1993, Dave The Shade wrote:

> Not NERPs, please lets try to stay in genre, have a cool name.

Uh . . . NERPS is in genre...

I like NERPS: xxx for several reasons:

1) It makes a neat acronym
2) It pays homage to shadowrun in some vague insider joke way
3) Good or Bad, it rhymes with GURPS, giving the impression that
it is an ongoing series of releases. Kinda parodies GURPS too.
4) It's easy to say and to apply to all of the supplements we
have planned (the upcoming plotline project, for example). This
shows that they are all part of the same 'system'.

I'm not sure if it is the best name, but I think it is less muddy than
something just for this project with some vague cultural references in it
(although I was impressed by 'The Stone Files'. Seems that shoudl be our
sub-title for NERPS: Illuminati :-)

Thoughts?


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Message no. 3
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: No NERPs Please (fwd)
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 11:28:07 -0500
Sent to only me by mistake.

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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 11:24:33 -0600 (CST)
From:RAGLAN54@*****.MMC.EDU
To: hayden@*******.mankato.msus.edu
Subject: Re: No NERPs Please

I personally like the NERPS name, and the inside reference to the running
joke in the SR official materials. Register my vote as YES for NERPS.

AR
Message no. 4
From: Dylan Northrup <northrup@*****.CAS.USF.EDU>
Subject: Re: No NERPs Please
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 13:29:43 -0400
On Mon, 25 Oct 1993, Robert A. Hayden wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Oct 1993, Dave The Shade wrote:
>
> > Not NERPs, please lets try to stay in genre, have a cool name.
>
> Uh . . . NERPS is in genre...
>
> I like NERPS: xxx for several reasons:
>

[Reasons Deleted]

> Thoughts?

I hereby cast my vote for the above-mentioned title. I agree with the
eminent Mr. Hayden and believe that NERPS: XXXX lends a continuity to what
could be a nice series of suppliments.

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