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Message no. 1
From: The Digital Mage <mn3rge@****.AC.UK>
Subject: WWW Site and [OT] Job
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:34:31 +0100
It is my great misfortune to soon be leaving the university life as I'll
finally be graduating. This brings up a couple of questions which I would
like to ask the list:

1) I will be losing net access as of the end of June, this will include
teh demise of my SR WWW site :( I was wondering whether anyone would be
willing to archive any and all of the stuff currently on there. If anyone
is interested please email me privately.

2) Has anyone got any advice for someone hoping to work full time in the
RPG industry, either with a single company or working freelance (hey
FASAMike - got any openings? :) any help would be appreciated - if its of
any relevance my Degree is in Business Administration witha focus on
marketing.

Thanks for your time!


The Digital Mage aka Grant Erswell - mn3rge@****.ac.uk
"Sadder still to watch it die, than never to have known it"
-Rush, Losing It
Message no. 2
From: Chris Robb <Darkskull@********.COM>
Subject: Re: WWW Site and [OT] Job
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 12:39:43 -0700
I'm new to this list, but I can answer one of your questions.

It is a royal bitch to get into the gaming industry. TSR just laid off a
bunch of people. I know one person who's in the industry, an he does the
computer work for Games Workshop. He got in because he knew the right people.
Even if your skills are incredible, it seems that if you don't know
somebody already inside, it's not gonna happen.

But keep trying.

Chris Robb aka Eclipse



At 05:34 PM 4/10/97 +0100, you wrote:
>It is my great misfortune to soon be leaving the university life as I'll
>finally be graduating. This brings up a couple of questions which I would
>like to ask the list:
>
>1) I will be losing net access as of the end of June, this will include
>teh demise of my SR WWW site :( I was wondering whether anyone would be
>willing to archive any and all of the stuff currently on there. If anyone
>is interested please email me privately.
>
>2) Has anyone got any advice for someone hoping to work full time in the
>RPG industry, either with a single company or working freelance (hey
>FASAMike - got any openings? :) any help would be appreciated - if its of
>any relevance my Degree is in Business Administration witha focus on
>marketing.
>
>Thanks for your time!
>
>
> The Digital Mage aka Grant Erswell - mn3rge@****.ac.uk
> "Sadder still to watch it die, than never to have known it"
> -Rush, Losing It
>
>

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Message no. 3
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: WWW Site and [OT] Job
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 21:02:51 +0100
|
| I'm new to this list, but I can answer one of your questions.
|
| It is a royal bitch to get into the gaming industry. TSR just laid off a
|bunch of people. I know one person who's in the industry, an he does the
|computer work for Games Workshop. He got in because he knew the right people.
| Even if your skills are incredible, it seems that if you don't know
|somebody already inside, it's not gonna happen.
|
| But keep trying.

PLEASE!!!!

Snip your posts, don't QUOTE ENTIRE DOCUMENTS, and when you DO QUOTE, QUOTE
at the END, or AFTER the relevant bit!!!!!

|At 05:34 PM 4/10/97 +0100, you wrote:
|>It is my great misfortune to soon be leaving the university life as I'll
|>finally be graduating. This brings up a couple of questions which I would

<snippage>

|> "Sadder still to watch it die, than never to have known it"
|> -Rush, Losing It


You know.....

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Message no. 4
From: Avenger <Avenger@*******.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: WWW Site and [OT] Job
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 23:51:12 +0100
In article <Pine.SOL.3.93.970410172835.16339A-100000@*****.bath.ac.uk>,
The Digital Mage <mn3rge@****.AC.UK> rambled on endlessly about WWW Site
and [OT] Job

>1) I will be losing net access as of the end of June, this will include
>teh demise of my SR WWW site :( I was wondering whether anyone would be
>willing to archive any and all of the stuff currently on there. If anyone
>is interested please email me privately.

Depending on how much stuff you have on your site, I can store it for
you. I've got between 10 & 15mb available at Demons server, so if you
want to zip it all, I'll put it up on my site, so at least it'll still
be available for the people at large. I'll add your name and the addy
into my sig, to keep it current if you wish. It'd be a shame to lose
that martial arts stuff especially. :)

If you want to add anything to it, just post the additions to me and I
can add it in no trouble. :)

If nobody else has approached you, it's an option.

>2) Has anyone got any advice for someone hoping to work full time in the
>RPG industry, either with a single company or working freelance (hey

Good luck. That's about the only advice anyone can give in this day and
age.


Pete

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Message no. 5
From: Loki <gamemstr@********.COM>
Subject: Re: WWW Site and [OT] Job
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 18:25:45 -0700
> >1) I will be losing net access as of the end of June, this will include
> >teh demise of my SR WWW site :( I was wondering whether anyone would be
> >willing to archive any and all of the stuff currently on there. If
anyone
> >is interested please email me privately.

I sent you a private email, but it may or may not have gone through. I'm
even now only using 1.3 of my 5 Mb. If you'd like some or all of your stuff
posted at Poisoned Elves, I can give you a wing off the Supplements site,
or better yet just archive your site as a whole in my directory on the
server and point the already existing link to there instead.

Let me know. I know my group and I have already used some of your optional
rules like Preparing or Holding Spells. Hate to lose some of the original
ideas.

@>--,--'--- Loki

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- A. C. Clarke

Poisoned Elves http://www.primenet.com/~gamemstr/
Message no. 6
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: WWW Site and [OT] Job
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:02:13 +0100
The Digital Mage said on 17:34/10 Apr 97...

> 1) I will be losing net access as of the end of June, this will include
> teh demise of my SR WWW site :( I was wondering whether anyone would be
> willing to archive any and all of the stuff currently on there. If anyone
> is interested please email me privately.

You could get an account with some or another commercial ISP before your
time at uni runs out, and transfer your stuff there...

> 2) Has anyone got any advice for someone hoping to work full time in the
> RPG industry, either with a single company or working freelance (hey
> FASAMike - got any openings? :) any help would be appreciated - if its of
> any relevance my Degree is in Business Administration witha focus on
> marketing.

How about writing sourcebooks? :)

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Creativiteit in de handen van ambtenaren is zoiets
als een staaf dynamiet in een kinderknuistje.
-> NERPS Project Leader & Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
-> The Plastic Warriors Page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/plastic.html <-

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Message no. 7
From: The Digital Mage <mn3rge@****.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: WWW Site and [OT] Job
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:31:01 +0100
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Gurth wrote:

> > 2) Has anyone got any advice for someone hoping to work full time in the
> > RPG industry, either with a single company or working freelance (hey
>
> How about writing sourcebooks? :)

I would love to do that. At present I'm intending on writing soem
Educational roleplaying games and hopefully run them for some local
schools. This will do a number of thinsg hopefully:
1) Encourage more people into teh hobby
2) encourage younger people into teh hobby
3) Encourage more females into teh hobby
4) SHow that RPGs aren't 'evil'
5) Look good on my CV
6) SHow my dad that I'm serious about working in games industry.
7) Hopefully teach me how to spell 'the' :)



The Digital Mage aka Grant Erswell - mn3rge@****.ac.uk
"Sadder still to watch it die, than never to have known it"
-Rush, Losing It
Message no. 8
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: WWW Site and [OT] Job
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 12:25:53 +0100
The Digital Mage said on 12:31/11 Apr 97...

> I would love to do that. At present I'm intending on writing soem
> Educational roleplaying games and hopefully run them for some local
> schools. This will do a number of thinsg hopefully:
> 1) Encourage more people into teh hobby
> 2) encourage younger people into teh hobby
> 3) Encourage more females into teh hobby

Those are always good things. The more the merrier, I say.

> 4) SHow that RPGs aren't 'evil'

That ties in with the first three -- play them and you'll see they're
not... (Did anyone read the bit about In Nomine in the last Arcane, BTW?)

> 7) Hopefully teach me how to spell 'the' :)

Just use a word processor with auto-replace and you'll never need to worry
about it again :) (I tend to write "aicraft" and "dependant" but I've
set
Word to correct me automatically).

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Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
Creativiteit in de handen van ambtenaren is zoiets
als een staaf dynamiet in een kinderknuistje.
-> NERPS Project Leader & Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
-> The Plastic Warriors Page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/plastic.html <-

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Message no. 9
From: Droopy <droopy@*******.NB.NET>
Subject: Re: WWW Site and [OT] Job
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 10:25:55 +0000
> From: The Digital Mage <mn3rge@****.AC.UK>
> Subject: WWW Site and [OT] Job
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET

> 2) Has anyone got any advice for someone hoping to work full time in the
> RPG industry, either with a single company or working freelance (hey
> FASAMike - got any openings? :) any help would be appreciated - if its of
> any relevance my Degree is in Business Administration witha focus on
> marketing.

Get a real job, then worry about RPG work. Otherwise, you'll starve.


--Droopy
droopy@**.net
Message no. 10
From: Gweedo The Killer Pimp <yawas@****.COM>
Subject: Re: WWW Site and [OT] Job
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 11:36:46 EDT
On Sat, 12 Apr 1997 10:25:55 +0000 Droopy <droopy@*******.NB.NET> writes:
>Get a real job, then worry about RPG work. Otherwise, you'll starve.


I don't know, Gurth is doing pretty good on RPG work, and not much else
:)


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Message no. 11
From: Skye Comstock <bilbo@****.NWLINK.COM>
Subject: Re: WWW Site and [OT] Job
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 08:37:59 -0800
>> 4) SHow that RPGs aren't 'evil'
>
>That ties in with the first three -- play them and you'll see they're
>not... (Did anyone read the bit about In Nomine in the last Arcane, BTW?)

What is In Nomine, anyway? I was with my (somewhat lazy) group last night,
this guy that plays Vampire said In Nomine was bizzare, so I can only wonder
how weird it really is. I'm also wondering why there are about 50 books for
White Wolf schtuff on the shelves of the gaming store... :P

-blah-blah-blah-spam-spam-spam-spam
Message no. 12
From: Dane Jensen <djensen@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: WWW Site and [OT] Job
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 16:55:40 -0700
At 12:25 PM 4-12-97 +0100, you wrote:
>The Digital Mage said on 12:31/11 Apr 97...
>
>> I would love to do that. At present I'm intending on writing soem
>> Educational roleplaying games and hopefully run them for some local
>> schools. This will do a number of thinsg hopefully:
>> 1) Encourage more people into teh hobby
>> 2) encourage younger people into teh hobby
>> 3) Encourage more females into teh hobby
>
>Those are always good things. The more the merrier, I say.
>
>> 4) SHow that RPGs aren't 'evil'
>
>That ties in with the first three -- play them and you'll see they're
>not... (Did anyone read the bit about In Nomine in the last Arcane, BTW?)
>
>> 7) Hopefully teach me how to spell 'the' :)
>
>Just use a word processor with auto-replace and you'll never need to worry
>about it again :) (I tend to write "aicraft" and "dependant" but
I've set
>Word to correct me automatically).

Ain't technology grand, people no longer need to know how to spell. =)

Psyber
Message no. 13
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: WWW Site and [OT] Job
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:36:34 +0100
Gweedo The Killer Pimp said on 11:36/12 Apr 97...

> >Get a real job, then worry about RPG work. Otherwise, you'll starve.
>
> I don't know, Gurth is doing pretty good on RPG work, and not much else
> :)

I am?

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I will hold my breath until all these shivers subside.
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-> The Plastic Warriors Page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/plastic.html <-

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Message no. 14
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: WWW Site and [OT] Job
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 11:51:24 +0000
On 12 Apr 97 at 16:55, Dane Jensen wrote:
[snip 23 lines]
> Ain't technology grand, people no longer need to know how to spell. =)
... they still have to learn who^h^h^hhow to trim their posts,
"psyber". Read the fucking FAQ, please, and learn how to set up and use
your EMailer. So ka?

Sascha
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