From:	Tom Pendergrast <pendergr@***.EDU>
Subject:	Re: gaming philosophies
Date:	Wed, 08 May 1996 18:59:07 -0700 (PDT)

> Should see what we do... Aside from one group (which has a lot of people who
> don't quite know the game well enough to do so yet) all of our characters
> have a minimum of 5 pages of background (I'm talking typed here, not written).

((WOW!!))

<snip>

((Its really nice to see that there are actual role-players still left
out there... I am disheartened by the hordes of powergamers out there
that call themselves role-players only because they are playing a
ROLE-PLAYING game...

In the campaign that we are starting this june, we have been
working on our chars since september... developing history, the 20
questions, contacts, family, friends, reasons for 'running, do they
'run?, would they kill, attitudes... I even got bonus karma from my GM
for writing a two-page "ShadowFile" from the corporation that
studied/experimented on my char... I haven't even played the char yet,
and already I have his entire essence defined, understood and ready to
go... its pretty cool...))

---Tom---