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Message no. 1
From: Doctor Doom <JCH8169@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: A List by any other name would sound the same...
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 15:23:29 -0500
From Herr Hayden:

>I still like naming it:
> NERPS: ShadowLore
>It's a nice clean acronym that can be applied to any of the topics we
>might make. Has nice inside joke and a cute slam on GURPS. What mroe
>could you want.

I disagree...I am far more amiable to NASGUL...

Neo-Anarchist's ShadowGuide to Underworld Life...

One List to rule them all,
One List to find them.
One List to bring them all,
And in the darkness bind them.
In the Mailserver at Hearn,
Where shadows lie.

Thus, we have Real Life, and Underworld Life...'Tis appropriately dark for
ShadowRun, to my mind. Besides, the denizens of the list are not unanimous in
this animosity towards GURPS...Herr Roberson being the primary proponent of
that system.


Colonel Count von Hohenzollern und von Doom, DMSc, DSc, PhD.

Doom Technologies & Weapon Systems -- Dark Thought Publications
>>> Working on solutions best left in the dark.
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Message no. 2
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: A List by any other name would sound the same...
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 15:54:37 -0500
On Tue, 26 Oct 1993, Doctor Doom wrote:

> >From Herr Hayden:
>
> >I still like naming it:
> > NERPS: ShadowLore

> I disagree...I am far more amiable to NASGUL...
> Neo-Anarchist's ShadowGuide to Underworld Life...

The problem is, as we move on to other topics (the
plotline/characters/sprawls project up next), we'd have to come up with a
new name every time. Instead, using NERPS, we can then have a title for
every book.

NERPS: ShadowLord
NERPS: Plotlines
NERPS: Character
NERPS: Sprawl Sites

> Thus, we have Real Life, and Underworld Life...'Tis appropriately dark for
> ShadowRun, to my mind. Besides, the denizens of the list are not unanimous in
> this animosity towards GURPS...Herr Roberson being the primary proponent of
> that system.

Correction. I like GURPS as source material, but I dont' like the
system. And my loathing for SJG is just generic grumbling. NERPS is a
spoof, not a slam.

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