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Message no. 1
From: "Because a Jester unemployed is nobody's fool ..."
Subject: Querys about Submissions (i.e. assosted listserve junk)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 17:05:43 -0500
Hello everyone,
... and yes it was spelled assosted ... but not intentionally.


What I'm curious about is this. I was looking through the posts and I realized
that it would almost be 'easier' to have a listing of 'Archtype' almost rather
than the actual name. (Yes there was a flip up about one of the posters who
was doing that and someone else 'yelled' at him for it.) But what I was
thinking was this. If I'm looking for a 'quick' encounter because the players
have just done somthing completely off the wall (like I need a fixer or an
armorurer) It would be handy to have some kind of 'label' as to archetype ...
or have the CHARACTER postings be 'sorted' according to archetype or have an
'index' of archetype in addition to the name.

What does everyone else think?

-Joshua Seely
Message no. 2
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Querys about Submissions (i.e. assosted listserve junk)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 14:31:29 -0600
On Mon, 21 Mar 1994, Because a Jester unemployed is nobody's fool ... wrote:

> What I'm curious about is this. I was looking through the posts and I realized
> that it would almost be 'easier' to have a listing of 'Archtype' almost rather
> than the actual name. (Yes there was a flip up about one of the posters who
> was doing that and someone else 'yelled' at him for it.) But what I was
> thinking was this. If I'm looking for a 'quick' encounter because the players
> have just done somthing completely off the wall (like I need a fixer or an
> armorurer) It would be handy to have some kind of 'label' as to archetype ...
> or have the CHARACTER postings be 'sorted' according to archetype or have an
> 'index' of archetype in addition to the name.

Characters will be devided into some kind of nebulous groupings, such as:
Magicians
Techies
Corp
Political
ParaNormal
Artificial

Archetype is nothing more than a vain attempt to hang on to some D&Desque
concept of "character class".


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