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Message no. 1
From: Matti Aistrich <aistrich@********.hkkk.fi>
Subject: What's new?
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 14:24:40 +0200 (EET)
On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Kyrin wrote:

> maybe to Rec.games.frp.cyber which is pretty much 70% SR related material.
> But I still would like to know what's up with shadow of the mind and how
> far discussion on the psionics has gotten to.

Yeah, me too. Maybe we should try to evolve this thing or something. Has
anybody thought about/tried to hone the NERPS .books to a point where
they could actually be sold to FASA?

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Message no. 2
From: Fro <fro@***.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: What's new?
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 18:54:33 -0700
At 14:24 29/03/96 +0200, you wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Kyrin wrote:
>
>> maybe to Rec.games.frp.cyber which is pretty much 70% SR related material.
>> But I still would like to know what's up with shadow of the mind and how
>> far discussion on the psionics has gotten to.
>
>Yeah, me too. Maybe we should try to evolve this thing or something. Has
>anybody thought about/tried to hone the NERPS .books to a point where
>they could actually be sold to FASA?


That would ruin the fun! The idea of NERPS is to create a cult of
shadowrunners across the net, sharing ideas, and hoping FASA will pick up..I
do not think FASA would be interested in our stuff, but you never know. If
we could come up with something, and get it approved by FASA, say if we all
worked in conjuction making a sourcebook about a city or country, and kept
it within FASA's long term shadowrun time line, then it could work.
Message no. 3
From: Matti Aistrich <aistrich@********.hkkk.fi>
Subject: Re: What's new?
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 13:34:08 +0300 (EET DST)
On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Fro wrote:

> >Yeah, me too. Maybe we should try to evolve this thing or something. Has
> >anybody thought about/tried to hone the NERPS .books to a point where
> >they could actually be sold to FASA?
>
> That would ruin the fun! The idea of NERPS is to create a cult of
> shadowrunners across the net, sharing ideas, and hoping FASA will pick up..I
> do not think FASA would be interested in our stuff, but you never know. If
> we could come up with something, and get it approved by FASA, say if we all
> worked in conjuction making a sourcebook about a city or country, and kept
> it within FASA's long term shadowrun time line, then it could work.
>
We would be in a pretty good position to, for instance, take part in
defining the "world according to ShadowRun" -- Neo-Anarchists Guide to
the World. Then again, FASA must have some definite views on this, but
they just haven't collected them all together and given them to the players.

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Message no. 4
From: "Darrin M. Conant" <dconant@****.spectra.net>
Subject: Re: What's new?
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 21:30:11 -0400
At 01:34 PM 4/14/96 +0300, Matti M. Aistrich wrote:
>We would be in a pretty good position to, for instance, take part in
>defining the "world according to ShadowRun" -- Neo-Anarchists Guide to
>the World. Then again, FASA must have some definite views on this, but
>they just haven't collected them all together and given them to the players.

I think that you're giving them too much credit. With as many people
contributing to the game world as there are it isn't likely that this
knowledge is in one place. The writers have to have some freedom.

I think that the Neo-Anarchists Guide to the World is going to be a tricky
thing to deal with from FASA's point of view. Think about it from their
angle. To copy information from "our" product would require that they give
credit (and maybe payment) -or- prove that the information was public domain
(such as history) -or- prove that they had the idea before we did. This
means that they may be forced to avoid expanding upon places that we cover
or they will be forced to actively contradict the NERPS manual to prove they
didn't steal anything.

If we want to do anything, I'd suggest that we expand upon some of the areas
that FASA has already given guidelines for, or things that are already NERPS
(such as an area with some Zombie or minotaur influences). The other option
might be to contact FASA and see if we can work something out
(un)officially. Otherwise, we risk limiting FASA's abilities to expand.

My 2 cents
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