| From: | Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA> |
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| Subject: | Re: Deck Pitfalls |
| Date: | Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:41:43 -0600 |
>In a message dated 98-08-19 00:56:42 EDT, you write:
>suck or put up with peoples sh*t...well sorry...and adam if you ever role
>played the game most people talk dat way....
This is rich. Have you seen Shadowrun Third Edition, Gabe? There's a nice
list of the people who playtested the game in there. You might just happen
to notice a name there -- Adam Jury. That's me.
I help run The Shadowrun Archive. Heard of it?
Oh, I help run The Shadowrun Webring. Missed that?
Gee, I also happen to be editor of The Shadowrun Supplemental, the longest
running (Both timewise and most issues) Shadowrun magazine on the internet.
Oh, and I'm Assistant Fearless Leader of the ShadowRN and NERPS mailing
lists, and GridSec over here.
Does that establish that I may know a little about the subject matter I'm
talking about, both on the Shadowrun and the publishing end?
And yes, true, some characters in Shadowrun may talk "dat way", but if
you're trying to do something on a professional level designed to promote
Shadowrun in any form, I heartily feel that a title that conveys a
professional atmosphere would be greatly superior to a title that does not.
Basically, I think you need two things in a title. You need to convey what
it *is*, and you need to convey what it is *about*.
"From Da Shadows" will be recognizable to Shadowrun players, most likely.
However, the people who have not been exposed to Shadowrun would probably
not know what it's about. It also fails to show what it is -- it could be
a sourcebook, some other type of supplement, fiction, a magazine, etc.
Something that was a bit more descriptive and accessible to more people
would be a better title overall, IMO.
I'm not saying the idea of a newsletter is bad, I'm not saying that I
wouldn't buy a good one if it was available. I'm saying that from what I've
seen, I don't think the title is all that appropriate, and from what I've
seen of the editor, it's going to need another editor, unless you have a
secret writing style you're hiding from the list at large.
You may think that I'm "out to get you", but all I want is to see the SRTCG
well represented.
-Adam J
http://www.interware.it/users/adamj \ fro@***.ab.ca \ ICQ# 2350330
