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From:	mbroadwa@*******.glenayre.com (Mike Broadwater)
Subject:	Shadowrun and HOL
Date:	Tue, 21 May 1996 10:49:25 -0500

Message no. 1 >|
>|>4. DICE
>|>I hate them too.
>|>
>|>Minimizing die rolls and maximizing actual interaction will aid roleplay and
>|>be more fun to all involved. Only use them when needed.
>|
>|To qoute _HOL_ "the dice are only there so you don't spend your time
>|scratching yourself."
>
>Another HoLMeister?
>Or are you just a scummy, mewling, worthless player, abjectly begging the HM
>to let you live for a while? :)
>(Yep, I've got HoL as well. I don't think I'll ever stop laughing
>long enough to run a game though....)
>
Nay, I am not one of the unwashed masses. I am a divine being of Light, a
near god like being (read: one who buys the books), I am A HOLMEISTER!
MUWHAHAHAH!

To bring this close to SR, I suggest HOL as reading for an game master
because it gives a lot of good ideas on how to run a game using a lot of
roleplaying and not a lot of dice.

BTW: I have run HOL. Once. At a con. It only lasted an hour and a half
(30 minutes longer than the players thought they would live) before they
blew themselves (and a chunk of the planet) up. We laughed almost the
entire time. Including their deaths. Definately a game to play. And for
anyone who thinks HOL is fluffy, you need to understand, if you don't laugh,
you'll realize how truly sick and twisted the game is.

Mike Broadwater
"To get a picture of what HOL is like, imagine the planet New Jersey..." -
HOL Rulebook
http://www.olemiss.edu/~neon

From:	Peter David Boddy <pdboddy@****.carleton.ca>
Subject:	Re: Shadowrun and HOL
Date:	Tue, 21 May 96 11:57:58 EDT

Message no. 2 Excuse my ignorance, but what is Hol?

Pete

Pete aka Spitfire
Test your might...
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Peter David Boddy
Carleton University
Email address: pdboddy@****.carleton.ca
Email address: bx955@*******.carleton.ca
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From:	mbroadwa@*******.glenayre.com (Mike Broadwater)
Subject:	Re: Shadowrun and HOL
Date:	Tue, 21 May 1996 11:14:22 -0500

Message no. 3 >Excuse my ignorance, but what is Hol?
>
It's ok. HOL stands for "Human Occupied Landfill". It was designed by Dirt
Merchant Games and sold under White Wolf's Black Dog Game Studio license.
The concept of the game is that you are on what basically amounts to a
garbage/prison planet. HOL is part of the COW(confederation of worlds)
which isn't a confederation, it's a Empire, which, in reality, is really an
Oligarchy ruled by the mega-Pope and his holy sponk (half spork, half ankh.
The ultimate combat of fast food and religion). The game is for laughs, but
you're laughing at the dark and twisted side of things. The writers biggest
target is, as they put it "We can't say the name for copyright reasons, but
lets just say it sounds like 'truncheons and flagons'" I suggest buying it,
reading it, laughing till you dry heave, and then using some of its
suggestions in other games. If you can control your laughter long enough to
play it, even better. (hey, you've got to love a game that's main book is
broken into two sections called "things you can kill" and "things that can
kill you") If anyone ever happens to run over, er, across me at a con, I'll
probably be running it. If you actually want to go to a con that I'm at so
you can play it, e-mail me privately.

Mike Broadwater
http://www.olemiss.edu/~neon
"An object at rest cannot be stopped! YEAH, BABY! YEAH!" - The Evil Midnight
Bomber What Bombs at Midnight.

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