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Message no. 1
From: "Mark J. Steedman" <Mark@******.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: NERPS projects.
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 20:11:34 +0000
I have been monitoring this and not adding anything given i never
voluntered to do anything for NAG rest of world.

Wordmans decking idea has its mertits but as i commented there, NEPRS
projects requiring folks to write articles from scratch rather than
collating stuff folks have already written and just have to type up
seem to have problems.

Things i think that might get further (see my comments to Wordmans
post on how i think that could be made to work, possibly as an
addition to make Adams stuff up?) are.

Characters.
NERPS edge runners was very much built from a basis provided before
it actually started in that it added more characters to a set already
about but it was completed very quickley.

I see opportunities here for stuff on opposition, typical corporate
guards (the FASA archtypes are all rather weak (eg SR2 contact), or
poorly designed, i took the newyen spent on some of the example in
the Atzlan book to shadowtech and the stree sams catalogue and came
out with something really mean). Ok we all no doubt design our own
guards but. A more through job could be done even by trying to design
guards for different corps, a big job for one GM but all Ares guards
probably pack the Ares predator for a heavy pistol, but i doubt
their friends at Raku do.
Some corps may use expensive looking cyberware (eg like the Azzie
examples use synaptic accelerators when boosted reflexes froma cost
point of veiw do the same for less) because they make them and
therefore can afford to put them in thoer own personnel because they
cost them a fraction of buying in off competitors.

There is always more scope for lower powered runners and gang types
as well, and others. One or two areas have been covered in past NERPS
productions but.

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Adventures. No i don't think we can try and do anything consisting of
stuff of any sive but small ideas are always wellcome, though given
compliation time for such a thing the SRS might be a better outlet?

Mark
Message no. 2
From: Bert Van de Merckt <Bert.VandeMerckt@****.be>
Subject: Re: NERPS Projects
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 05:29:20 +0200
GKoth2258@***.com wrote:

[somehow snipped] I'm afraid your post didn't quite come through at my postoffice.
Can you please resend it (privately: Bert.Vandemerckt@****.be)? Thx

> Shadows of the Mind: supposedly finished, in the hands of JD Falk (hi
> there!) to edit and upload. But no one seems to have heard anything recently
> about this.
>
> The Underworld project: I forget the actual name. If it was Shadows of the
> Underworld, FASAs got a project with that name coming out this summer. In
> any case, this was supposed to be about fixers, organized crime, and the
> shadowy stuff that runners do, underground. I seem to recall several good
> articles, like one about what happens at a meet. But the project has been
> dead for several months now.

Where are the articles already written? If you can send them to me I'd be happy
to put them on a webpage. It will also give me an idea how to write my own.
Very much thanks in advance,

Bert

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Message no. 3
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: NERPS Projects
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 11:39:22 +0100
Bert Van de Merckt said on 17 Apr 96...

> Where are the articles already written? If you can send them to me I'd be happy
> to put them on a webpage. It will also give me an idea how to write my own.
> Very much thanks in advance,

Please don't -- the idea behind NERPS is to write articles and put them
into a net.sourcebook, then put that net.book onto a web page or ftp site,
so everyone who wants it, can download it and print it out. An html
version can also be done, of course, but not before the book itself is
finished.

Just for the record, I have all the articles sitting in a folder in my
mailer. All I need to do is copy them into Word if/when I feel like
getting started on the book.

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Maybe I'm all messed up. But this is the only time I really feel alive.
-> NERPS Project Leader & Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
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Message no. 4
From: Bert Van de Merckt <Bert.VandeMerckt@****.be>
Subject: Re: NERPS Projects
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:35:32 +0200
Gurth wrote:
> Please don't -- the idea behind NERPS is to write articles and put them
> into a net.sourcebook, then put that net.book onto a web page or ftp site,
> so everyone who wants it, can download it and print it out. An html
> version can also be done, of course, but not before the book itself is
> finished.
> Just for the record, I have all the articles sitting in a folder in my
> mailer. All I need to do is copy them into Word if/when I feel like
> getting started on the book.

So Ka. If you please can me send articles have you and will try I them put Word in.
I write good very. Book.Net make I you for. Check Do you. You then use to decide it.
Okay? :)

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"Pub: Ah,yes,a meeting place where people
attempt to reach advanced states of mental
incompetence by the repeated consumption of
fermented vegetable drinks." - Kryten
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mailto:Bert.VanDeMerckt@****.be
http://www.ping.be/~ping8611
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Message no. 5
From: Bert Van de Merckt <Bert.VandeMerckt@****.be>
Subject: Re: NERPS Projects
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:38:01 +0200
Gurth wrote:
> > I think this underworld project is very finishable. I also vote for doing a
> > geographic type project as our next piece.
>
> I believe Underworld is finishable too, but as I said in another post,
> only a small fraction of the promised articles have actually materialized.
> We could perhaps integrate a geographical piece with the Underworld
> project, although how exactly might be a bit difficult.

Heh, serious now: what articles are already written? If I read a few (or at least
know their subjects), I can send you some of the ideas that sprout in my head (oh
no) and the results of those ideas. Sound OK?

Greetz - BigB

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"Pub: Ah,yes,a meeting place where people
attempt to reach advanced states of mental
incompetence by the repeated consumption of
fermented vegetable drinks." - Kryten
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http://www.ping.be/~ping8611
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Message no. 6
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: NERPS Projects
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 11:41:37 +0100
Bert Van de Merckt said on 18 Apr 96...

> So Ka. If you please can me send articles have you and will try I them put Word in.
> I write good very. Book.Net make I you for. Check Do you. You then use to decide it.
> Okay? :)

Thanks for the offer, but I think I'll do this myself... I believe I've
got the time and the knowledge to make a good-looking book, just not the
material. However *crosses fingers* things seem to start moving again.

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Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
Maybe I'm all messed up. But this is the only time I really feel alive.
-> NERPS Project Leader & Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
-> The Character Mortuary: http://huizen.dds.nl/~mortuary/mortuary.html <-

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Message no. 7
From: Bert Van de Merckt <Bert.VandeMerckt@****.be>
Subject: Re: NERPS Projects
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 04:30:52 +0200
Gurth wrote:
> > So Ka. If you please can me send articles have you and will try I them put Word
in.
> > I write good very. Book.Net make I you for. Check Do you. You then use to decide
it.
> > Okay? :)
>
> Thanks for the offer, but I think I'll do this myself... I believe I've
> got the time and the knowledge to make a good-looking book, just not the
> material. However *crosses fingers* things seem to start moving again.

Kyoa.

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"Pub: Ah,yes,a meeting place where people
attempt to reach advanced states of mental
incompetence by the repeated consumption of
fermented vegetable drinks." - Kryten
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mailto:Bert.VanDeMerckt@****.be
http://www.ping.be/~ping8611
Roleplaying LINK of LINKS page:
http://www.ping.be/~ping8611/rpglinks.html
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