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Message no. 1
From: Electric Monk <goehrigd@****.CANISIUS.EDU>
Subject: inspiration
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 09:30:37 -0400
On Wed, 26 Apr 1995, Daniel Kollmer wrote:

> >Where do all you GM's get your inspiration for Runs? (I get mine from
> >Japanimations/animes, how 'bout you?)

How about our warped little overworked minds?
I think the best way to get inspired is to think
of all the things you would like to do but they
are illegal. Then base a game on it..
Works for me.......

"The nice man who had subsequently acted so oddly to being shot at."

--==<< Electric Monk >>==--

"The designer of PSNHB and Knight of Unsubbing"
Message no. 2
From: Daniel Kollmer <dkollmer@**.OR.AT>
Subject: Re: inspiration
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 17:19:55 +0200
>On Wed, 26 Apr 1995, Daniel Kollmer wrote:
>
>> >Where do all you GM's get your inspiration for Runs? (I get mine from
>> >Japanimations/animes, how 'bout you?)
>
>How about our warped little overworked minds?
>I think the best way to get inspired is to think
>of all the things you would like to do but they
>are illegal. Then base a game on it..
>Works for me.......
>
> "The nice man who had subsequently acted so oddly to being shot at."
>
> --==<< Electric Monk >>==--
>
> "The designer of PSNHB and Knight of Unsubbing"
>
>I didn't write that,I just answered the post.It originally came from Martin
Roth(Hoi Martin)
Message no. 3
From: Brian Spaugh SLIP <bspaugh@***********.NET>
Subject: Re: inspiration
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 10:43:45 EDT
>On Wed, 26 Apr 1995, Daniel Kollmer wrote:
>
>> >Where do all you GM's get your inspiration for Runs? (I get mine from
>> >Japanimations/animes, how 'bout you?)
>
>How about our warped little overworked minds?
>I think the best way to get inspired is to think
>of all the things you would like to do but they
>are illegal. Then base a game on it..
>Works for me.......
>
> "The nice man who had subsequently acted so oddly to being shot at."
>
> --==<< Electric Monk >>==--
>
> "The designer of PSNHB and Knight of Unsubbing"

I also get a lot of my ideas from tv and movies. My runners have saved Seattle
from Lo Pan and his Three Storms ala Big Trouble In Little China(their favorite
shadowrun yet.) We also have done a series of runs based on the X-Files.
The runners investigated the various mysteries for Johnsons instead of for the
FBI. The other killer crossover run we did was based on a Michael Crichton novel
called Congo about an intelligent ape, a trip to Africa, a fortune in super-
conductor diamonds, and mysterious monsters. The interaction with the locals was
almost as much of an adventure as the various beasties. I think I have most of
these adventures spread through different notebooks and scribbled on various
sheets of paper so if anyone's interested I probably could type them up and post
them but now that I think about it, I'm sure there would be copyright problems
so I don't know. What's the general concensus for posting things based on
copyrighted material?

Brian Spaugh bspaugh@***********.net Angela Spaugh
"Honest to my own convictions, within the defined parameters of my mission."
Message no. 4
From: Paolo Marcucci <marcucci@***.TS.ASTRO.IT>
Subject: Re: inspiration
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 10:02:09 +0000
On Apr 26, 10:43am, Brian Spaugh SLIP wrote:

[interesting runs chopped]

> I think I have most of
> these adventures spread through different notebooks and scribbled on various
> sheets of paper so if anyone's interested I probably could type them up and
post
> them but now that I think about it, I'm sure there would be copyright
problems
> so I don't know. What's the general concensus for posting things based on
> copyrighted material?
>
> Brian Spaugh bspaugh@***********.net Angela Spaugh

Like Gurth would say: don't even think not to do this :)

Seriously, if your work is _based_ on copyrighted material and you acknowledge
it clearly, there should be no problem. Anyway, you are not doing it for money,
so everything is more elastic.

But, there are people that don't let you use a character from one of their
novels to play in a _private_ sr session. No joke. It happened to me.

Further details on request.

Bye, Paolo

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