Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.announce,news.answers From: rg-frp-announce@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Subject: [rec.games.frp.*] archive sites with roleplaying material Followup-To: rec.games.frp.misc Originator: cwatters@top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 15:41:20 GMT Archive-name: roleplay/part3 Last-Modified: 10/23/92 Archives FTP SITES AND MAIL SERVERS There is no general archive of rec.games.frp postings. However, several people maintain public-access archives of interesting and/or generally useful material as a courtesy to their fellow netters. In addition to archived articles, some of these archive sites offer articles which are never posted to rec.games.frp. If you want to find these articles you will have to use an archive server of some sort. Contents: Tabolport archive Navero archive The Guildsman (an amateur zine) archive The ADnD ftp site at tybalt AD&D ftp and AFS site at Stanford ** White Wolf ftp archive site Traveller-Vehicles ftp site Champions archive The Jayhawk series archive sites FTP server at iesd.auc.dk ** Tiamat ftp site ** RuneQuest Digest archive site GRASS-SERVER ADND-L FILELIST FTP Archives ------------ Anonymous FTP archives can be accessed from Unix machines on the Internet by typing ftp
, where
is either an Internet address or a routing number. At the "Name:" prompt, type "anonymous"; at the "Password:" prompt, type your userid or "guest" (or something equally thoughtful). For further information on ftp, check the documentation at your site or consult a local guru. Users at non-Internet sites (especially those on BITNET/Netnorth/EARN) may want to try the BITNET FTP server at Princeton. To obtain directions on the use of the server, send a mail file containing the line HELP to BITFTP@PUCC.BITNET. An alternative is the ftpmail service at decwrl.dec.com. Again send a message containing the one line help to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com. Name: Tabolport archive Address: athena.mit.edu Contact: HENRY@critical.mit.edu Status: Available via AFS, not via FTP Info Updated: 29-Jun-1992 Notes: Jemearl T. Smith maintains an anonymous FTP archive which contains material relating to Tabolport, a fantasy city being designed cooperatively by the readers of rec.games.frp. It's available in the Andrew File System under /afs/athena.mit.edu/project/tabolport. (Jim Bassman Davenport, who was in charge of the Tabolport project, has graduated and no longer has net access. Freeland K. Abbott, the semi-official administrator, can be reached at fabbott@athena.mit.edu. If anyone has access to Project Athena at MIT, Freeland has also put a set of the Tabolport files in a publicly-accessible locker named "tabolport".) Name: Navero Address: ics.uci.edu Info Updated: 15-Aug-1991 Notes: All issues (including the latest) of the Navero series of stories are available in /usenet/rec.games.frp/navero. The issues are compressed, so be sure to use binary mode to transfer them. In addition, there are a few other items in /usenet/rec.games.frp, like an Excel AD&D 2nd Edition character generator (written by John Roy ) and some postscript character sheets.(Thanks to Mark Nagel (nagel@ics.uci.edu) for setting this up.) Archive sites are also set up for the LaTeX versions of the Navero saga: Compressed: ftp.cc.gatech.edu pub/frp/navero/navero.tar.Z Uncompressed: ftp.white.toronto.edu pub/frp/navero/navero.tar ASCII LaTeX files: potemkin.cs.pdx.edu pub/frp/stories/navero/tex/. Note: This last site also has copies of EPIC and EEPIC, which are needed to create some of the graphics contained in the files. It is described fully in the readme file. Name: The Guildsman (an amateur zine) FTP sites Address: potemkin.cs.pdx.edu (131.252.20.145) in pub/frp/ucrgg greyhawk.stanford.edu (36.8.0.243) in D_D/Guildsman Info Updated: 12-Jan-1992 Notes The Guildsman is an amateur RPG zine which is regularly inundated by gaming material from writers both on and off the net. It is currently available in LaTeX and PostScript formats. Name: The ADnD ftp site at ccosun New Address: ccosun.caltech.edu Contact: Gary `Lanz' Fuller Info Updated: 25-Feb-1992 Notes: ADnD and compatible stuff, including versions of the infamous net.spellbook and net.priestbook. Pop submissions into this directory: ftp/pub/adnd/inbound. Name: AD&D ftp and AFS site at Stanford Address: greyhawk.stanford.edu (36.8.0.243) Contact: Mark Steiglitz Info Updated: 16-Mar-1992 Notes: This site contains most of the organized AD&D-related material posted to rec.games.frp. The files are stored either in their natural form or as tar archives. The archive currently contains the UCR Guildsman, various versions of the net spellbooks, character sheets, and hex graph paper, Alpha's Spells, the Elf's Gamebook, the Net Monster Manual, the Penultimate MU Spell List, the Spell Description Language, and the WATSFIC Tournament. ftp directory /D_D incoming files: /D_D/incoming The contents are also available on the worldwide AFS file system [AFS is the Andrew File System, if you don't know what it is, you probably can't use it. -LM]. The files are stored here in their natural form. AFS directory: /afs/ir.stanford.edu/users/s/steig/D_D incoming files: /afs/ir.stanford.edu/users/s/steig/D_D/incoming Name: White Wolf ftp archive site Address: soda.berkeley.edu (128.32.149.19) Contact: Shannon Appel (Ars Mag) Info Updated: 12-Mar-1992 Notes: An FTP-able archive exists in the /pub/ars_magica and /pub/vampire directories. Name: Traveller-Vehicles ftp site Address: ocf.berkeley.edu (128.32.184.254) or plague and tornado are now a part of this machine. Contact: Steve Huntsberry Info Updated: 19-Nov-1992 Notes: An FTP-able archive exists in the pub/Traveller/vehicles directory, and maybe others. Contact-Note: George Herbert has graduated, and I have taken over the admin of the Traveller Vehicle Archives. Name: Champions archive Address: potemkin.cs.pdx.edu (131.252.20.145) Contact: trent@cs.pdx.edu cohen@spot.colorado.edu Info Updated: 24-Apr-1991 Notes: The champions archive is now active and accepting submissions. There are already many characters, stories, plots, and gadgets, but we're always looking for more. To submit anything, place it in the tmp/ directory, and send mail to trent@cs.pdx.edu telling him what it is, and into which sub-directory it should go. directories: Bases.Vehicles.Gadgets/ Misc/ Characters/ Plots-Stories/ Organizations/ Name: The Jayhawk series archive sites Address: ftp.white.toronto.edu potemkin.cs.pdx.edu Info Updated: 1-May-1991 Notes: Mary Kuhner's Jayhawk series of stories (high quality shadowrun writeups) are available in several archive sites. Mary has offered to mail the stories if you can't get to one of the servers. site1: ftp.white.toronto.edu file: /pub/frp/shadowrun/jayhawk site2: potemkin.cs.pdx.edu directory: /pub/frp/stories/jayhawk Name: iesd.auc.dk FTP server Address: iesd.auc.dk (130.225.48.4) Contact: Soren Parbaek or Info Updated: 3-Dec-1991, good until 31-Jan-92 Notes: Contains: Archive site for the Rolemaster list, Complete scenarios to misc. roleplaying games, the net.plot.books, a list of rpg-clubs in Denmark and info on danish conventions. Submissions to Soren Parbaek or in the incoming directory. Name: Marshall U. FTP server Address: quayle.mu.wvnet.edu (129.71.32.151) Contact: Phil Smith Info Updated: 4-Mar-1992 Notes: Restricted to non-work hours Eastern Standard/Daily Time. Use the /pub/rpg and /pub/rpg/dnd directories, and incoming goes to /pub/rpg/incoming. The Midnight's Bane stories are in /pub/rpg/uploads/Midnights_Bane. Name: Northern Arizona University anonymous FTP server Address: rainbow.cse.nau.edu (134.114.64.24) Contact: William E. Wilson Info Updated: 15-dec-1991 Notes: Currently has general info for Traveller and MegaTraveller. Plans to expand offerings by including programs and game aids for Rolemaster, MERP, CoC, Dark Conspiracy, Cyberpunk and other game systems. If you would like to submit something of yours, just e-mail a description to the contact. Name: University of San Diego anonymous FTP service Address: usdcsv.acusd.edu (192.55.87.6) Contact: Jerry Stratton Info Updated: 15-Apr-1992 Notes: Currently includes space for AD&D, Shadowrun, and Brand X (an original superhero roleplaying game). This is the distribution point for the Neo-Anarchists Guide to Everything Else, the net.book for shadowrun players. * last check indicates this site might not exist anymore - mod. ***** Name: Tiamat ftp site Address: tiamat.umd.umich.edu Info Updated: 10/23/92 Notes: All submissions should go into the /uploads dir, 2-3 days for a submission to be processed. Processed files in /pub/frp Quoting Mike Suzio (the maintainer): I'm hoping to make this site a Champions archive, since potemkin gets so little traffic, and I *know* there should be at least a few people out there with ideas for champions. Oh - I'm asking that all uploads be accompanied by a text file explaining what they are (especially with binaries; I don't have the time to run everything to find out what it is), and that you send me (msuzio@tiamat.umd.umich.edu) mail before uploading anything over 2 megs or so, just as a courtesy. Thanks. Name: RuneQuest Digest archive site Address: soda.berkeley.edu (128.32.149.19) Contact: Shannon Appel Notes: An archive of the old issues of the RQ Digest MAIL ARCHIVES Name: GRASS-SERVER Address: GRASS-SERVER@wharton.upenn.edu Contact: GRASS-REQUEST@wharton.upenn.edu Info Updated: 14-Sep-1991 Notes: GRASS is a project to explore Generic (i.e. usable for any game system) Religions and Secret Societies for roleplaying games. Archives of GRASS and of the Mythos Delvers lists, and interesting postings from rec.games.frp and other newsgroups which are appropriate to GRASS may be retrieved via the GRASS-SERVER. To use the GRASS-SERVER, send mail containing the command HELP within the subject line and/or the body of the mail message to the server address. Address comments to the administrator. Name: ADND-L FILELIST Address: LISTSERV@UTARLVM1.BITNET Info Updated: 9-May-1991 Notes: Most of the net spell books are available here. all you have to do is send a mail file or BITNET style interactive message to that address. Each line of the mail message should include a single command. The most important command to know is GET. The second most important command to know is INDEX, which will give a listing of the available files. Maybe you should start with the HELP command. Some of the files on the server include: GNSB MAGIC the great net.spellbook MAGIC ITEMS the magic items list POISON DIGEST the poisons list TOME MAGIC tome of might magic CANTRIPS DIGEST MONSTER MANUAL fairly small monster manual