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Message no. 1
From: anders@**********.com (Anders Swenson)
Subject: Nuts and Bolts FIRST(getting OT)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:00:14 -0700
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:20:47 -0700 (PDT)
Jan Jaap van Poelgeest <jjvanp@*****.com> wrote:

[snip]

MMORPG called EarthdawnQuest.

[snip]

What's a MMORPG? ED 'quest' sounds like it would use Chaosium's BRP, which,
since I worked on it, is the natural and best way to do things!
--Anders
Message no. 2
From: mikepaff@***.rr.com (Michael Paff)
Subject: Nuts and Bolts FIRST(getting OT)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:21:46 -0700
At 04:00 PM 4/19/2005, Anders Swenson wrote:
>What's a MMORPG? ED 'quest' sounds like it would use Chaosium's BRP, which,
>since I worked on it, is the natural and best way to do things!

MMORPG stands for Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. Some of them
include EverQuest, Ragnarok Online, Worlds of Warcraft, and Diablo II.
Message no. 3
From: maxnoel_fr@*****.fr (Max Noel)
Subject: Nuts and Bolts FIRST(getting OT)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:31:52 +0100
On Apr 20, 2005, at 00:21, Michael Paff wrote:

> MMORPG stands for Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.
> Some of them
> include EverQuest, Ragnarok Online, Worlds of Warcraft, and Diablo II.

Diablo II isn't "massive". It's not really "role-playing" either, but

then you could argue that neither is EverQuest, I guess.

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and sweating as you run through my corridors... How can you challenge a
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