From:	Geoff Skellams <geoff.skellams@*********.COM.AU>
Subject:	Re: More magazine thoughts (was Re: Gurth has some ideas)
Date:	Wed, 2 Sep 1998 14:08:41 +1000

On Net Enhancements for Roleplaying Shadowrun, Erik
Jameson[SMTP:WildSmashr@***.COM] wrote:
> My vote must be placed alongside that of Madame Jester and Herr
Wordman. Keep
> NERPS publishing net.books and not magazines.
>
I'm going to chuck in a ME TOO here as well.

> You've all read my opinions as to what needs to be done, and that's
simply to
> get our collective butts in gear.
> Maybe the fact that NERPS has been outplacing TK & Plot-D the last few
weeks
> is an indication that perhaps we are indeed showing some drive.

The problem is that all of the traffic has been about what we
are supposed to be doing or could do, rather than actually submitting
stuff for NERPS.
There are two books currently "active" (Guide to the Rest of the
World and Stuff). Neither of them seem to be getting any submissions. If
we are going to revitalise NERPS, then perhaps we need to put these on
hold and start something else. I'm not saying this because I suggested a
couple of possibilities that people seem to like. I am suggesting this
because it seems reasonably obvious that people AREN'T going to submit
stuff for the active books in a hurry, good intentions or no. Maybe a
new and smaller focused topic would give NERPS the shot in the arm that
it needs to recover some of its former glory.

G

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