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Message no. 1
From: Doctor Doom <JCH8169@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: Munchkins...they're not just for (killing before) breakfast
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 11:35:11 -0500
From The Reverend...

>>Nope.... NOTHING is impossible under SRII (and especially not under SR1... how
>>bout them Physads? :)

>Not any worse than some of the other screws that could be done with SR1 mages
>(gotta love that force void elemental, right chummers? [to the list-members

[.Violently Munchkinous treacle deleted for the protection of the innocent.]

Carpe Cyprinum!

TTTTTTTTTT HH HH WW WW AA PPPPPPP || ||
TT HH HH WW WW AAAA PP PP || ||
TT HH HH WW WW AA AA PP PP || ||
TT HHHHHHHH WW WW WW AA AA PPPPPPP || ||
TT HH HH WW WW WW AAAAAAAA PP || ||
TT HH HH WWWWWWWW AA AA PP
TT HH HH WW WW AA AA PP .. ..

[ wet carp noise ]

As you may recall, (or may not, as your mind is presently being clouded by
Power Gaming thoughts) we demonstrated the inoperative nature of this
proposal. Speak no more on't.

>SR1 & 2 each have their share of holes. Doom, while "not all things are
>possible", many things are. Even under SR2. Don't say otherwise, or I may
>take it as a challenge. (not flaming you, but you should know what IS
>possible... viruses in astral space? Toxic Insects? It's a big world...)

Not everything is possible, yet many things are? You are back-peddling with
marked rapidity, mein Freund. Do take precuations to prevent falling over. Of
COURSE many things are possible...Life *itself* affords great potential, but
interpret that not to give you license to SCREW said rules, or I (Flare and
Maze) shall accordingly arm ourselves with carps and merrily THWAP thee into
tiny bits (in Thy mercy)...

A challenge??? It is to laugh. Although I would direct your attention to the
fact that it appears that YOU are the one guilty of making the challenge.

>Power gamer, probably, occasionally rules-lawyer, and part-time loonie, I am...

...as well as conciever of ideas that are generally so deplorable that they are
summarily sentanced to be shot at dawn (to paraphrase our other associate,
Flare)...

The truth of the matter is that MOST problems within ShadowRun I have been
rectified in ShadowRun II, although not *all*, I shall grant you. However, if
you wish this to indicate you are called forth by the multitudes of munchkinous
masses to seek the loopholes, then gladly puth forth your ideas...

...such that they may be VIOLENTLY dispatched.



Colonel Count von Hohenzollern und von Doom, DMSc, DSc, PhD.

Doom Technologies & Weapon Systems -- Dark Thought Publications
>>> Working on solutions best left in the dark.
<<<
[ Doctor Doom : jch8169@********.tamu.edu ]
^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^
Infidel defilers...they shall all drown in lakes of blood.
Now they shall know why they are afraid of the dark.
Now they shall learn why the fear the coming of the night.
-- Doom
Message no. 2
From: "Dark Thought Publications." <JEK5313@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Munchkins...they're not just for (killing before) breakfast
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 13:50:02 -0500
][.Violently Munchkinous treacle deleted for the protection of the innocent.]

1- There are NO innocents here.
2- You're going to protect ME? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

You're way to carp-happy, Doomie ol' boy.

]As you may recall, (or may not, as your mind is presently being clouded by
]Power Gaming thoughts) we demonstrated the inoperative nature of this
]proposal. Speak no more on't.

A fine one to issue commmands you are. Ha!! This has gotten personal. You
guys either make up or take it off the list.

]Not everything is possible, yet many things are? You are back-peddling with
]marked rapidity, mein Freund. Do take precuations to prevent falling over. Of
]COURSE many things are possible...Life *itself* affords great potential, but
]interpret that not to give you license to SCREW said rules, or I (Flare and
]Maze) shall accordingly arm ourselves with carps and merrily THWAP thee into
]tiny bits (in Thy mercy)...

1- I don't think, with the behaviour exibited here, that you have the right to
refer to him as "mein Freund." He merely is modifying his position after he
has been instructed that he was not entirely correct. This is standard
operating procedure, and rather than remaining dogmatic and defending his ideas
to the end no matter what (I'm not naming names here) he changes to reflect his
state of knowledge.

2- Take my name in vain again, buddy, and I'll thwap you so hard you'll take
rads from being in the same solar system as me.


]A challenge??? It is to laugh. Although I would direct your attention to the
]fact that it appears that YOU are the one guilty of making the challenge.

Mindless, derogatory comments such as the above have no place in an intelligent
repartee, which it was until, you got ticked, Doomie.


]>Power gamer, probably, occasionally rules-lawyer, and part-time loonie, I am...
]
]...as well as conciever of ideas that are generally so deplorable that they are
]summarily sentanced to be shot at dawn (to paraphrase our other associate,
]Flare)...

Yep, but I said it half in fun and half intent, with the purpose of edification
and elucidation on his part: in hopes that he might gauge from that statement
what we felt (AS A GROUP) was too far from the rules. I did NOT say it merely
to flay the skin off and take my pound of flesh, unlike some.

]The truth of the matter is that MOST problems within ShadowRun I have been
]rectified in ShadowRun II, although not *all*, I shall grant you. However, if
]you wish this to indicate you are called forth by the multitudes of munchkinous
]masses to seek the loopholes, then gladly puth forth your ideas...
]
]...such that they may be VIOLENTLY dispatched.

As I heard it last, he comes up with these ideas in the same way that I do: so
that they can be beaten from the GameMaster's chair, not so that he can be the
meanest, nastiest one in the universe. As I heard this from him, I think I'll
take it over your treatise on his evils.


--Flare <NULLSIG COURTESY OF DOOM>

Dark Thought Publications & Doom Technologies, Inc.
>>> Working on solutions best left in the dark.

"He who laughs last, laughs last."

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