| From: | "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl> |
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| Subject: | Re: Stuff |
| Date: | Fri, 19 Apr 1996 12:30:06 +0100 |
> Hey Gurth, don't go start thinking you're the _only_ old man around here...
I'm only 21, but on these lists we're both veterans :)
> I've gone over the current submissions, and brought them down to MS Word 5.1,
> to see how big they are. Using the New York font, the file ranges in size
> from 32 pages in 9 point (what I use for everything) to 48.5 pages in 12
> point (or what TEXT would be). If it stays in 12 point size, then the
> addition of as few as 20 pages should be a minimum for keeping it stand
> alone.
For SR stuff I tend to use 9 or 10 points Francis in Word for Windows
7.0, in two columns, with Avantgarde for the shadowcomments. Makes it
all look very FASA-ish :)
Anyway I was thinking about somthing Topcat brought up on ShadowRN a few
months back -- altered availability ratings. If somebody were to do an
article on how availability and street index ratings change over time,
that could be good for inclusion into Underworld as well..
Also, here is an open invitation to anyone who can draw Shadowrun-style
pictures. I'd like to include some of those in the book, so it's not just a
text-only affair like nearly all other net.sourebooks...
> I figure when Gurth fleshs out his little story from it's current outline
> state, we could add probable a page and a half to two pages more.
Actually, that *is* the story...
> There has got to be more to underworld crime other than the Mafia, the Yaks,
> the Seoulpas, and all the other racial mobsters. Smaller arms
> smuggling/trading groups, drug runners, all sorts of organizations that would
> be common in the shadows, but just don't get much "press." Detail a couple
> of these (I have an idea for one involving a free spirit), write another
> piece of fiction maybe. Sound like a plan?
Why not? Someone intended to write a random gang generator, as well as
some pieces about gangs in general I believe. Since I haven't seen that
piece yet and don't have any real ideas about this myself, I'm kind of
hoping that either A) that person finishes the article and posts it here,
or B) someone else is willing to do a similar article. It would be perfect
for Underworld.
> BTW Gurth , thanks for the Edge Runners write-up.
*Alf voice* No problem! :)
> Now, about a World project. First of all, I have little problem, personally,
> with going over NAGEE territory. Personally, I found much of their material
> to be rather poor. But that's just me, and it would likely be in very poor
> taste for NERPS to cover NAGEE turf.
That's what I thought too. I don't like to contradict other published
material, at most we might add to it I feel.
> Not to mention, this could be a fine long-term project, with
> multiple edition of the NAGG (Neo-Anarchists Guide to the Globe).
With my attention span, I doubt this'd ever get done. I have to finish
things as soon as possible after I start them, else they might very well
never get done.
> the Dark Stranger,
> and
> St. Stan
I must confess to not recognizing those two...
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