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Message no. 1
From: Wordman <wordman@*******.COM>
Subject: Abandoning the ShadowFAQ
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 00:08:44 -0400
As many of you know, I currently maintain the ShadowFAQ, a list of
frequently asked questions for Shadowrun. I have decided to no longer
maintain this web site once Shadowrun: Third Edition is released. I'm
interested in finding it a new home with someone who knows their stuff, so I
you are interested in taking it over, please send me e-mail privately.

I'm dropping the site mostly because I no longer have the time or, frankly,
the desire to be the rule-lawyer I once was. I'm also not connected enough
into this list to have the the ShadowFAQ do justice to what I'm sure will be
a stirring round of discussion about the Third Edition. Also, I haven't been
in a full-time SR campaign for years, which doesn't help matters. I'm also
trying to gear up to develop a cross-platform RPG software product, which is
going to take huge amounts of effort.

My apologies to those who found the ShadowFAQ useful.

Sincerely,
Wordman

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's
draft."
-- H. G. Wells
Message no. 2
From: Shadowrunner <nocturnal@*******.NET>
Subject: Re: Abandoning the ShadowFAQ
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 23:25:20 +0000
Wordman wrote:
>
> As many of you know, I currently maintain the ShadowFAQ, a list of
> frequently asked questions for Shadowrun. I have decided to no longer
> maintain this web site once Shadowrun: Third Edition is released. I'm
> interested in finding it a new home with someone who knows their stuff, so I
> you are interested in taking it over, please send me e-mail privately.
>
> I'm dropping the site mostly because I no longer have the time or, frankly,
> the desire to be the rule-lawyer I once was. I'm also not connected enough
> into this list to have the the ShadowFAQ do justice to what I'm sure will be
> a stirring round of discussion about the Third Edition. Also, I haven't been
> in a full-time SR campaign for years, which doesn't help matters. I'm also
> trying to gear up to develop a cross-platform RPG software product, which is
> going to take huge amounts of effort.
>
> My apologies to those who found the ShadowFAQ useful.
>
> Sincerely,
> Wordman
>
> "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's
> draft."
> -- H. G. Wells

That doesnt mean the "whole" site does it?
-Noc
Message no. 3
From: Wordman <wordman@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: Abandoning the ShadowFAQ
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 01:24:20 -0400
No wrote:
>Wordman wrote:
>> I have decided to no longer
>> maintain this web site once Shadowrun: Third Edition is released.
>
>That doesnt mean the "whole" site does it?

I'm not sure I understand the question. If you mean by "whole" the ShadowFAQ
and all of the pages related to it (the product list, the product survey,
etc), then yes. If by "whole" you mean other Shadowrun pages I run, then no.
I will still maintain the SixthWorld, my personal page, etc.

Wordman
Message no. 4
From: Shadowrunner <nocturnal@*******.NET>
Subject: Re: Abandoning the ShadowFAQ
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 01:37:28 +0000
Wordman wrote:
>
> No wrote:
> >Wordman wrote:
> >> I have decided to no longer
> >> maintain this web site once Shadowrun: Third Edition is released.
> >
> >That doesnt mean the "whole" site does it?
>
> I'm not sure I understand the question. If you mean by "whole" the
ShadowFAQ
> and all of the pages related to it (the product list, the product survey,
> etc), then yes. If by "whole" you mean other Shadowrun pages I run, then
no.
> I will still maintain the SixthWorld, my personal page, etc.
>
> Wordman

I meant "whole" as in, everything there is about Shadowrun on there...
-Noc
Message no. 5
From: Mon goose <landsquid@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: Abandoning the ShadowFAQ
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 12:37:02 PDT
>>Wordman wrote:
>>> I have decided to no longer
>>> maintain this web site once Shadowrun: Third Edition is released.

By "no longer maintain" do you no longer mean update, or not leave
online? I think the ShadowFAQ is and will remain a valuable resource,
even as "historical document"- just as understanding some SR1 mechincs
can clear up SR2, it might be nice to have the sr2 faq still acsessable.
Perhaps you could do a final wrapup and "time capsule" it? If its
archive space you need, you could create a new page with the same URL
with a link to some new location for the FAQ.

I know for our "Chicago houseFAQ", we shamelessly plagerised your
shadowfaq; if you are axing it, I'd like to archive the whole thing on
my new box.
It might also be fun to answer all the ShadowFAQ questions from a SR3
perspective, so that sr2 players can geta feel for the change's and how
SR3 solves "problems".

In fact, I find myself strongly tempted to do a SR3 FAQ, since I'll
likely be updating my site over the next few months (the fact that I got
a new computerhas nothing to do withit- really. I swear). Is anybody
else planing this? Want to team up? What would people like to see in
one? Nows the time to start, if nothing else to catch all the questions
that pop up with the general release in September.
I'm thinking of a degree of interactivity, with a (somehow
moderated) public question and answer area for rapid tracking of
developing issues (and so I don't have to personally research every
question or post all the ones I can't figure out to ShadowRN); a FAQ
explaining changes from SR2; where to find certain old rules you might
need / want to use (perhaps linking to the old FAQ); any stuff from sr3
playtest development that FASA and the responding playtesters will let
me post.

=-Mongoose-=






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