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Message no. 1
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: SJ Games/GURPS
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 17:31:24 -0500
While I don't like SJ Games very well (they dicked me over when I wrote
the rules up for Aircraft in Car Wars and never paid me), I must say that
as source material, the GURPS series has some fo the most thought-out and
researched materials I've seen for any gaming system.

Sounds like something for the LIST FAQ:
Other sources of material that might be helpful
Cyberpunk 2020
Vampire (think about it)
Nightlife
Tales from the floating Vagabond (for the loonies)
GURPS * <-- That's a wildcard :-)

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Message no. 2
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: SJ Games/GURPS
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 17:40:51 -0500
On Tue, 19 Oct 1993, The Reverend wrote:

> ]While I don't like SJ Games very well (they dicked me over when I wrote
> ]the rules up for Aircraft in Car Wars and never paid me),

> You wrote that? Wow... people of (semi)distinguished personage on the list.
> Who would've thought? *grin*

Yep, that was me, back in 1987 or 88. I wrote up the rules for
airplanes. They published it in the quarterly magazine (autoduel
quarterly) and paid me $120 for the magazine article, but I never signed
a release form AND I never received any royalties when they published the
rules as Aeroduel and worked it into GURPS Autoduel and GURPS Car Wars.

No no . . . I'm not bitter or anything.....

*grumble*



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Message no. 3
From: Mike Loseke <legion@**************.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Re: SJ Games/GURPS
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 06:54:08 MDT
Our Fearless Leader wrote:

>Yep, that was me, back in 1987 or 88. I wrote up the rules for
>airplanes. They published it in the quarterly magazine (autoduel
>quarterly) and paid me $120 for the magazine article, but I never signed
>a release form AND I never received any royalties when they published the
>rules as Aeroduel and worked it into GURPS Autoduel and GURPS Car Wars.
>
>No no . . . I'm not bitter or anything.....
>
>*grumble*

I know how you feel. I was writing up the rules for boats and had just
finished, when SJG released their rules. The bad part was that the rules
were almost identical. They truly are the illuminati...

Legion

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