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Message no. 1
From: Airk <jfrank@*****.COM>
Subject: 50 Questions
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 20:57:37 -0700
Thanks! As a fairly new GM, it's very useful. If anyone else has any
cool reference material or anything and they're bored, I'd love a copy
;)
Message no. 2
From: NightLife <habenir@******.SAN.UC.EDU>
Subject: 50+ Questions
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 02:56:23 -0400
A while back. Probably a long way back somebody posted a list of questions
thay had put together. I'd like to use them in my upcoming article at my den
and I'm like to ask permission to use them. I believe in giving credit where
credit is due. Here's a snippet so you can recognize it.

1. What is your characters Sex?

2. What is your characters physical size?

3. What is the color of the characters Hair, eyes, and skin?
snip
53. Remember, your Gamemaster like detail, so if you can think of any
other little details, quirks, or whatever that you think might please the
almight GM, then add them in as well. Oh, and your GM won't use any
of these details against you at a later date. trust me...:)

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Ah at last! The TRANSFORMATION is complete!
For YEARS they mocked me! They took the name EMMANUEL LEWIS in vain!
But tonight RETRIBUTION will be mine!
For I am REBORN as --WEBSTER--, The adorable scamp of DOOM!
Ma'am's and Georges beware Webster walks the earth and he's got a
HANKERIN' for some SPANKERIN'!

Man did I nail this mad doctor routine or WHAT?
"Deadpool #4"

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Message no. 3
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: 50+ Questions
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 05:13:00 -0500
At 02:56 AM 4/22/97 -0400, NightLife wrote these timeless words:
>A while back. Probably a long way back somebody posted a list of questions
>thay had put together. I'd like to use them in my upcoming article at my den
>and I'm like to ask permission to use them. I believe in giving credit where
>credit is due. Here's a snippet so you can recognize it.
>
>1. What is your characters Sex?
>
>2. What is your characters physical size?
>
>3. What is the color of the characters Hair, eyes, and skin?
>snip
>53. Remember, your Gamemaster like detail, so if you can think of any
>other little details, quirks, or whatever that you think might please the
>almight GM, then add them in as well. Oh, and your GM won't use any
>of these details against you at a later date. trust me...:)
>.
I recognize that! Ummm, who was it that wrote that up?

Ummm, oh yeah! It was me!

The 50+ questions was brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Ork
Decker...:]

Feel free to use it... AFter all, that was the point of me posting it! :]

Bull
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Message no. 4
From: Michael Broadwater <mbroadwa@*******.GLENAYRE.COM>
Subject: Re: 50+ Questions
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:00:52 -0500
At 05:13 AM 4/22/97 -0500, Bull wrote:
>At 02:56 AM 4/22/97 -0400, NightLife wrote these timeless words:
>>A while back. Probably a long way back somebody posted a list of questions
>>thay had put together. I'd like to use them in my upcoming article at my den
>>and I'm like to ask permission to use them. I believe in giving credit where
>>credit is due. Here's a snippet so you can recognize it.
>>
>>1. What is your characters Sex?
>>
>>2. What is your characters physical size?
>>
>>3. What is the color of the characters Hair, eyes, and skin?
>>snip
>>53. Remember, your Gamemaster like detail, so if you can think of any
>>other little details, quirks, or whatever that you think might please the
>>almight GM, then add them in as well. Oh, and your GM won't use any
>>of these details against you at a later date. trust me...:)
>>.
>I recognize that! Ummm, who was it that wrote that up?
>
>Ummm, oh yeah! It was me!
>
>The 50+ questions was brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Ork
>Decker...:]

They sound an awful lot like the 20 questions in SRII. If you expanded
that section out (using all the sub questions) you could have more than 50.
I always try and answer those before I play a character or before my
players do.


Mike Broadwater

"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them much myself.
They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings."
Message no. 5
From: Antoine DIAMANT-BERGER <diamant@********.UVSQ.FR>
Subject: Re: 50+ Questions
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 16:43:57 +0200
> >1. What is your characters Sex?
> >
> >2. What is your characters physical size?
> >
> >3. What is the color of the characters Hair, eyes, and skin?
> >snip
> >53. Remember, your Gamemaster like detail, so if you can think of any
> >other little details, quirks, or whatever that you think might please =
the
> >almight GM, then add them in as well. Oh, and your GM won't use any
> >of these details against you at a later date. trust me...:)
> >.

>
> The 50+ questions was brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Ork
> Decker...:]
>
> Feel free to use it... AFter all, that was the point of me posting it!=
:]
>
Is there a place where it can be found ??? Or could someone send it to
me ?
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Message no. 6
From: Gweedo The Killer Pimp <yawas@****.COM>
Subject: 50 questions
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 20:00:59 EDT
I'm sorry to ask this, but can somebody privately E-Mail me the 50
questions that everybody else keeps talking about. I haven't thought
that much about them, until I played last weekend and we had one PC
making up his character, and how he would react to things as he went
along.


This is my sig.
Love it
Or leave it.

Gweedo the Killer Pimp
Message no. 7
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: 50 questions
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 03:01:44 -0400
At 08:00 PM 5/15/97 EDT, Gweedo The Killer Pimp wrote these timeless words:
>I'm sorry to ask this, but can somebody privately E-Mail me the 50
>questions that everybody else keeps talking about. I haven't thought
>that much about them, until I played last weekend and we had one PC
>making up his character, and how he would react to things as he went
>along.
>
Hmmm...

Well, I originally wrote the 50+ questions (there were 53), tho I have
since lost them do to mailbox crashes, computer crashes, and the like...:(

However, I have hope!

Apparently the questions are somewhere on Paolo Marcucci's Shadowrun
Archive! I wasn't able to locate them myself, (I only looked real quick
this afternoon. My compy hates websurfing:( )but they are there somewhere.
In fact, if anyone does find the, can you please give me the URL? I'd
like to get a new copy, and maybe add them to my own web page.

Thanks.

Also, as another plea to regain lost silliness that I posted (And since I
had someone ask about it), does anyone have a copy of the "FLUFF from the
Shadows" SR Commercials that I posted (And someone else did one as well,
not sure who). I really could use a copy of that as well (Especially the
Menthos one:)).

Thanks, and sorry about the SPAM...:]

Bull
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"The best Ork Decker you never met"
-Me, in the upcoming "Target: UCAS" Shadowrun Sourcebook!
Message no. 8
From: Neil Phillips <mikep@***.NET.AU>
Subject: Re: 50 questions
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 11:54:23 +0900
Bull wrote:
>
> At 08:00 PM 5/15/97 EDT, Gweedo The Killer Pimp wrote these timeless words:
> >I'm sorry to ask this, but can somebody privately E-Mail me the 50
> >questions that everybody else keeps talking about. I haven't thought
> >that much about them, until I played last weekend and we had one PC
> >making up his character, and how he would react to things as he went
> >along.
> >
> Hmmm...
>
> Well, I originally wrote the 50+ questions (there were 53), tho I have
> since lost them do to mailbox crashes, computer crashes, and the like...:(
>
> However, I have hope!
>
> Apparently the questions are somewhere on Paolo Marcucci's Shadowrun
> Archive! I wasn't able to locate them myself, (I only looked real quick
> this afternoon. My compy hates websurfing:( )but they are there somewhere.
> In fact, if anyone does find the, can you please give me the URL? I'd
> like to get a new copy, and maybe add them to my own web page.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Also, as another plea to regain lost silliness that I posted (And since I
> had someone ask about it), does anyone have a copy of the "FLUFF from the
> Shadows" SR Commercials that I posted (And someone else did one as well,
> not sure who). I really could use a copy of that as well (Especially the
> Menthos one:)).
>
> Thanks, and sorry about the SPAM...:]
>
> Bull
> --
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>
> Bull, aka Steven Ratkovich, aka Rak, aka a lot of others! :]
>
> "The best Ork Decker you never met"
> -Me, in the upcoming "Target: UCAS" Shadowrun Sourcebook!

the 50+ question are in the latest post in nightlife's den.
so there ya go.
and I wasn't even looking for them :)
--
N-ster
(mikep@***.net.au)
"N"
Message no. 9
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@****.ORG>
Subject: Re: 50 questions
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 08:29:35 -0600
David Buehrer wrote:
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| Bull wrote:
| )Well, I originally wrote the 50+ questions (there were 53), tho I have
| )since lost them do to mailbox crashes, computer crashes, and the like...:(
| )
| )However, I have hope!
|
| Bull,
|
| I still have my copy. I hope you don't mind an attachement (.txt) :)

Aaaaaarrrrrrrgg! I'm very, very, very sorry about sending that to the
list. I could have sworn I reset the To: to Bull.

-David
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Message no. 10
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: 50 questions
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 00:21:57 -0600
At 11:54 5/17/97 +0900, you wrote:
>> Also, as another plea to regain lost silliness that I posted (And since I
>> had someone ask about it), does anyone have a copy of the "FLUFF from the
>> Shadows" SR Commercials that I posted (And someone else did one as well,
>> not sure who). I really could use a copy of that as well (Especially the
>> Menthos one:)).

Rak -- I think I still have these somewhere.. I'll take a look tonite and
email them to you privately.
>the 50+ question are in the latest post in nightlife's den.
>so there ya go.
>and I wasn't even looking for them :)
>--
>N-ster

N-ster; Please snip when you post, as you can see I removed most of if not
all of the post, because most of it wasn't applicable at all.

Thanks,
-Aj

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Message no. 11
From: Michael Broadwater <mbroadwa@*******.GLENAYRE.COM>
Subject: Re: 50 questions
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 10:14:30 -0500
At 03:01 AM 5/16/97 -0400, Bull @****** wrote:
>Well, I originally wrote the 50+ questions (there were 53), tho I have
>since lost them do to mailbox crashes, computer crashes, and the like...:(

These wouldn't happen to be the 50 questions in the SR book, would it?
Last time I saw mention of these questions, they sounded suspicioulsy like
those ones.


Mike Broadwater

"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them much myself.
They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings."
Message no. 12
From: NightLife <habenir@******.SAN.UC.EDU>
Subject: Re: 50 questions
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 12:48:36 -0400
>These wouldn't happen to be the 50 questions in the SR book, would it?
>Last time I saw mention of these questions, they sounded suspicioulsy like
>those ones.

Nope there is only 20 questions in the mainbook and they only graze the
surface of character development. The actual 50 questions well 53 or 54
actaully were put together by Bull go into a lot more detail than the ones
in the BB.


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Nightlife Inc.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Ah at last! The TRANSFORMATION is complete!
For YEARS they mocked me! They took the name EMMANUEL LEWIS in vain!
But tonight RETRIBUTION will be mine!
For I am REBORN as --WEBSTER--, The adorable scamp of DOOM!
Ma'am's and Georges beware Webster walks the earth and he's got a
HANKERIN' for some SPANKERIN'!

Man did I nail this mad doctor routine or WHAT?
"Deadpool #4"

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Message no. 13
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: 50 questions
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 20:21:16 +0100
NightLife said on 12:48/19 May 97...

> Nope there is only 20 questions in the mainbook and they only graze the
> surface of character development. The actual 50 questions well 53 or 54
> actaully were put together by Bull go into a lot more detail than the ones
> in the BB.

One thing that bothers me about the 20 questions thing is that players
(me included) tend to answer in very few words: "What does he look like?"
"Black hair, white skin, blue eyes, shoe size 43." It lacks detail
because, in my experience, people answer the _questions_ rather than
_answer_ the questions.

Whereas when I start with a blank document in a word processor and start
typing, I end up with a much better background story that tells a lot more
about the character than I usually manage with the 20 questions.

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Message no. 14
From: tom Cone <Brother-1@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: 50 questions
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 12:33:08 -1000
I usually answer the 20 questions and then develop the story. I change
my answers if I need to, to fit the story, but it helps get the
character stable in my mind.

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Message no. 15
From: "Faux Pas (Thomas)" <thomas@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: 50 questions
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 10:34:17 -0500
At 12:33 PM 5/19/97 -1000, tom Cone whispered:
>I usually answer the 20 questions and then develop the story. I change
>my answers if I need to, to fit the story, but it helps get the
>character stable in my mind.

Or the opposite approach will work. Create a history for your character,
then look over the 20 Questions and see if you've answered them all in your
background story.


-Thomas Deeny
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Thomas's World is http://telltale.hart.org - come visit!

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