Message no. 1

From:	Paul Gettle <RunnerPaul@*****.COM>
Subject:	Re: VD&D [was: Shadowrun Assassin PC Game]
Date:	Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:10:46 -0400

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At 04:51 PM 9/30/98 +1000, Robert wrote:
>ObSR: With expert systems becoming more and more common in SR, expect
a
>surge of Matrix-based roleplaying systems to become available, and
probably
>popular. Escapism in SR 2050+ would be at least as necessary as it is
today,
>if not more so. I've got a write-up of VD&D around somewhere...

If you come across it, and it's not too much trouble, could you send
it on to the list? I'd like to see your workup of it.

<<Snip>>
>'cause Marketing didn't realise that people were unlikely to want to
play a
>game that reminded them of social diseases...

I don't see why not. I know the very FIRST character I played ended up
contracting V.D. (when playing Dragonlance AD&D, never _ever_ let the
party's kender loose in a brothel) and I still had loads of fun. I'm
still into RPGs today, aren't I?

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