From:	Keldon Mor Keldon@********.net
Subject:	Gamers' Purity Test
Date:	Wed, 3 Feb 1999 03:56:53 -0600

Peace,
Keldon Mor
Keldon@********.net
http://ww2.netnitco.net/users/keldon
-----Original Message-----
From: MC23 <mc23@**********.com>
To: shadowrn@*****.html.com <shadowrn@*****.html.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 4:11 PM
Subject: Fwd: Gamers' Purity Test


>This is not a survey; this is not a quiz; this is a bit of fun. Rate
>yourself. Rate your players. Pass it around. There are one hundred
>questions: score one point for every 'yes' answer.
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>Do you:
>1. Own more than 20 dice?
>2. Own more than 100 dice?
>3. Have dice that are so used their corners are completely worn away?
>4. Remember when there were no D10s, only D20s?
>5. Remember when the only D20s you could get were numbered 0-9 twice?
>6. Know what 'THAC0' stands for, without checking?
>7. Know what 'GURPS' stands for, without checking?
>8. Know what 'TSR' stands for, without checking?
>9. Know what 'FUDGE' stands for, without checking?
>10. Know what 'EPT' stands for, without checking?
>11. Know where you'd find the starship 'Beowolf'?
>12. Know where you'd find the starship 'Warden'?
>13. Know what 'The Owl and Weasel' was?
>14. Own more than 5 RPG rulebooks
>15. Own more than 20 RPG rulebooks
>16. Have no idea how many RPG rulebooks you own, but it's still not
> enough?
>17. Know the Gazebo story?
>18. Had the Gazebo story happen to someone in your group?
>
>What's the actual printing date on the oldest RPG book or boxed set you
>own? (4 points total)
>19. 1990 or before?
>20. 1984 or before?
>21. 1980 or before?
>22. 1976 or before?
>
>23. Did you buy it the year it was published?
>24. Is it signed by the designer?
>25. Are you now or have you ever been a member of the RPGA?
>
>Have you ever:
>26. Played a live-action ('freeform') game out of costume
>27. Played a live-action game in costume, with padded weapons for
>combat?
>28. Played a MUD?
>29. Played a solo adventure?
>30. Been in more than two on-going campaigns at the same time?
>31. Been in more than five on-going campaigns at the same time?
>32. Used a rulebook so much that its pages fell out (no points for
> 'Feng Shui', 'SLA Industries', 'Mercenaries, Spies and Private
> Eyes' or first-edition 'Vampire: the Masquerade')
>33. Totalled a character sheet by spilling a drink or dropping fast
> food on it?
>34. Stood on a D4 while wearing no shoes?
>35. Swallowed a dice?
>36. Been physically injured or scarred by something that happened
> during a gaming (not live-action) session?
>37. Been in a campaign that has been running more than two years?
>38. Been in a campaign that has been running more than five years?
>39. Been in a campaign that has been running more than ten years?
>40. Been in a campaign which has been running more than twenty years,
>has
> some of its original players and some of its original characters,
> and is still going?
>41. Attended a games convention?
>42. Worked on a booth at a games convention?
>43. Gophered for or organized a games convention?
>43. Attended a games convention in another country?
>44. Gone to another country just to attend a games convention?
>45. Spoken to a 'name' games designer or artist?
>46. Shaken hands with or kissed a 'name' games designer or artist?
>47. Had sex with a 'name' games designer or artist? (Note to games
> designers and artists: this has to be someone else, not yourself).
>48. Role-played past midnight?
>49. Role-played past dawn?
>50. Role-played solidly for more than 24 hours?
>51. Role-played solidly for more than 48 hours?
>52. Missed your favourite TV programme because you were role-playing?
>53. Missed an important deadline because you were role-playing?
>54. Missed a date because you were role-playing?
>55. Missed a guaranteed 100% dead-cert opportunity for sex because
> you were role-playing?
>56. Been on first-name terms with the person who owns your local RPG
> store?
>57. Worked for a RPG store?
>58. Owned or managed an RPG store?
>59. Created a worldwide web site which featured role-playing?
>60. Written your own RPG system?
>61. Edited a fanzine or APA?
>62. Been paid for writing or drawing RPG stuff?
>63. Written an RPG book and had it published?
>64. Run an RPG company?
>65. Run an RPG company that didn't go bankrupt?
>66. Role-played in a moving vehicle?
>67. Role-played while at work/in class?
>68. Fallen asleep while role-playing?
>69. Got drunk while role-playing?
>70. Got stoned while role-playing?
>71. Got laid while role-playing?
>72. Been stopped by the police while in character?
>73. Been arrested while in character?
>74. Been arrested while in costume?
>75. Had a relative think you're into amateur dramatics because you
> couldn't explain role-playing to them properly?
>76. Heard, 'My kid brother used to do that D&D stuff till he grew
> out of it.'?
>77. Heard, 'Isn't that the game that the kid in Michigan died
> playing in those steam tunnels?'
>78. Watched the movie 'Mazes and Monsters'?
>79. Read the book 'Mazes and Monsters'?
>80. Read the book 'Shared Fantasy'?
>81. Been told that you'll go to hell because you play RPGs?
>82. Dissed a game you've never read or played?
>83. Got into an argument about a game you don't know anything about?
>84. Won an argument about a game you don't know anything about?
>85. Cried when your character died?
>86. Attempted suicide when your character died?
>87. Argued so much with a GM that they brought your dead character
> back to life?
>88. Argued so much with a GM that they killed your character out of
>spite?
>89. Actually thought that you could do something because one of your
> characters had done it in a game?
>90. Had a girl/boy-friend who was a gamer?
>91. Met a girl/boy-friend at a gaming session?
>92. Met a person you married at a gaming session?
>93. Lost a girl/boy-friend because you role-played too much?
>94. Lost your job/been suspended from school or college because you
> role-played too much?
>
>Has a character you were playing or a group you were GMing ever:
>95. Accidentally killed the guy who was going to give them the
> information they needed?
>96. Really, really needed to roll one particular number on
> percentile dice, and hit that number exactly?
>97. Met a god?
>98. Become a god?
>99. Met Cthulhu?
>100. Beaten Cthulhu?
>
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> Ancient cultures believed that names held great power, personal names
>more so and they were guarded very closely. To protect themselves, they
>answered to another name, because if another discovered their real name,
>it could be used against them.
> History repeats itself.
> Welcome to the Digital Age.
> I am MC23
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