Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!hookup!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cix.compulink.co.uk From: rg-frp-announce@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.announce,news.answers,rec.answers Subject: [rec.games.frp.*] Roleplaying mailing lists and digests part 2/3 Followup-To: rec.games.frp.misc Date: 28 Feb 1994 21:58:40 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 485 Approved: cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Distribution: world Expires: 4/20/1994 Message-ID: <2ktpeg$5bv@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <2ktp3d$5b1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Keywords: roleplaying games, internet mailing lists,administrivia Originator: cwatters@bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu rec.games.frp.announce:851 news.answers:15773 rec.answers:4267 Archive-name: games/roleplay/part5 Last-modified: 2/28/94 MAILING LISTS AND DIGESTS part 2/2 The next large group of entries describe Internet mailing lists. Some of them allow automated subscriptions and/or archive retrieval, others do not. To join, send electronic mail to the address listed under "Contact:". Send submissions to the "List:" address. Contents: Traveller Mailing List ** Ars Magica Mailing List GRASS (Generic Religions and Secret Societies ) ** Champions mailing list TORG Call of Cthulhu Mailing List Warhammer Mailing List CAMELOT mailing list VAMPIRE Mailing List Forgotten Realms Mailing List Interactive Literature Foundation (ILF) mailing list ** Warhammer 40K Mailing List San Francisco Bay Area Gamer's Mailing List Miniatures Mailing List Ravenloft Mailing List Amber Mailing List The Wizards of the Coast announcement list The Talislanta discussion group The Primal Order discussion group The Experts development group The Rivals of Estedhil development group The Art of Game Mastering development group The Military Order development group GURPS Announcements GURPS discussion group Chaosium Digest The FRP Portable Tools Project NERO NY / Ashbury Mailing List (Larp) R.Talsorian Games List ** NERPS (Shadowrun Enhancements) ** Palladium Games Mailing list ** EarthDawn Mailing List ** - new or changed entry. Name: Traveller Mailing List Contact: traveller-request@engrg.uwo.ca (James T.Perkins) List: List address made available once a new member has subscribed. Archived: FTP from ftp.engrg.uwo.ca (129.100.100.12) Info Updated: February 5, 1993 Notes: The Internet Traveller Mailing List is intended for the discussion of the Traveller Science Fiction Role Playing Game, published by Game Designers' Workshop. All variants of Traveller (Traveller 2300, MegaTraveller, The New Era), and Traveller games (Snapshot, Trillion Credit Squadron, etc.) are included, too. Discussion is unmoderated and open to all facets and levels of Traveller discussion. Listeners as well as contributors are welcome. Past messages are available via anonymous FTP from ftp.engrg.uwo.ca (129.100.100.12) in the /pub/traveller directory. The list manager can retrieve old articles, too (but try the automated sources first, please). The archive site is graciously administered by Dan Corrin . Name: Ars Magica Mailing List Contact: ars-magica-request@majordomo.berkeley.edu List: ars-magica@majordomo.berkeley.edu Archived: FTP from soda.berkeley.edu Info Updated: 28-Feb-1994 Notes: An FTP-able archive exists at soda.berkeley.edu in the pub/ars_magica directory. Send requests for archive info to Shannon D. Appel . Subscribe: send the command: subscribe ars-magica your-address to 'majordomo@soda.berkeley.edu' Disconnect: unsubscribe ars-magica your-address to 'majordomo@soda.berkeley.edu'. Name: GRASS (Generic Religions and Secret Societies) Contact: GRASS-SERVER@wharton.upenn.edu List: GRASS@wharton.upenn.edu Administrator: GRASS-REQUEST@wharton.upenn.edu Archived: Mail to GRASS-SERVER@wharton.upenn.edu Info Updated: 29-Jun-1992 Notes: The GRASS (Generic Religions and Secret Societies) mailing list is a small working group formed in order to write up religions and secret societies for use in role-playing games. Both real-world and fictional religions and secret societies are covered. Before you join GRASS you must demonstrate that you are serious about at least occasionally producing something useful by producing a substantive original writeup of a religion or secret society in some format or another and sending it to grass@wharton.upenn.edu. Once you have sent your first writeup in you will be added to the mailing list. We do have a preferred format for write-ups. In order to get a copy send mail to GRASS-SERVER@wharton.upenn.edu with a subject line of GET GRASS.FORMAT You do NOT have to join the mailing list in order to see what the mailing list produces. Anyone can use the mail archive server to retrieve articles or discussion logs. Archives may be retrieved via 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: GRASS-SERVER@wharton.upenn.edu Name: Champions mailing list Contact: champ-request@omg.org List: champ-l@omg.org Status: Active Administrator: Geoffrey Speare (geoff@omg.org) Info Updated: 11-Feb-1994 Notes: The list manager asks that new subscribers include their address (preferably in domain notation) in their subscription request. Name: TORG Contact: torg-request@morticia.cnns.unt.edu List: torg@morticia.cnns.unt.edu Administrator: torg-owner@morticia.cnns.unt.edu Archived: FTP from morticia.cnns.unt.edu. Status: Active Info Updated: 15-Aug-1991 Notes: An Internet mailing list to discuss the possibilities of the Infiniverse. For information, send email to the contact address. On the subject line, type the single word "help". This mailing list is also gatewayed to the usenet newsgroup alt.games.torg. To subscribe, send email to the contact address. On the subject line type "subscribe" (or "sub"). No parameter is necessary for the subscription command. Optionally, you may type your name after the subscription command. It will be visible on the list along with your address. Optionally, also, you may give the command "subscribe -". This hides your address from others on the list. To unsubscribe, send your request to torg-request. The subject line and/or the first line of the mail should read: unsubscribe {user} where {user} is the address that you wish to unsubscribe. Torg archives are available via anonymous ftp in pub/lists at morticia.cnns.unt.edu. You may make submissions in the directory pub/lists/submissions The list is coordinated by Clay Luther (cluther@morticia.cnns.unt.edu). Name: Call of Cthulhu Mailing List Contact: cthulhu-request@cs.qmw.ac.uk Status: **** Dead **** Info Updated: 12/01/93 Notes: This is dead now - CoC fans should refer to The Chaosium Digest Name: The Warhammer Mailing List List: wfrp@cool.khis.com Contact: wfrp-request@cool.khis.com Administrator: wfrp-owner@cool.khis.com Status: Active Info Updated: 11-February-1194 Notes: For the discussion of Games Workshop's Warhammer Universe, the Old World, Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, and Warhammer Fantasy Battle. The Warhammer mailing list is running ListMan 1.0b List Manager software. To subscribe, send email to the above request address and as the first word on the subject line or any line in the text of the message put the word "sub". You may also include a parameter with the sub command. This parameter will be treated as your *real* name, not your address (which is determined from your mail headers). You may also send wfrp-request other commands, not the least of which is "help". Contact: camelot-request@castle.ed.ac.uk List: camelot@castle.ed.ac.uk Status: Active Info Updated: 15-Jun-1991 Notes: A new mailing list on the subject of Arthurian legend and Grail Lore. The 'Matter of Britain', as it is known, in all its guises and all related subjects will be discussed in an unmoderated mailing list. Camelot is a forum for discussion of all Arthurian fields of interest. The mailing list is new (started on 11 Jun 1991) and is run by Chris Thornborrow, a (new) member of the Pendragon Society who has studied Arthurian legend and Grail Lore for quite a while. Name: VAMPIRE Mailing List The old Vampire list was exposed to sunlight and running water. Name: Vampire Mailing List Contact: List: listserv@wizards.com Status: Active Info Update: 10/11/93 Notes: This list started with the apparent demise of the math.ufl.edu list. More information would be appreciated by the moderator. Name: The Forgotten Realms Mailing List Contact: Chris Seabrook List: realms@ossi.com Subscription: majordomo@ossi.com Admin: realms-owner@ossi.com Status: active Info Updated: 12/01/93 Notes: Discussions on this list encompass all apects of the Forgotten Realms FRP game setting orginially created by Ed Greenwood and published by TSR. Subscription to this list can either be to the main list (realms) or to the weekly digest (realms-digest). Send mail to majordomo@ossi.com for instructions regarding subscribing/unsubscribing. This is a new home for the list previously known as fr@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu. Name: Interactive Literature Foundation (ILF) mailing list Contact: il-info-request@han.paramax.com List: il-info@han.paramax.com Status: Active Info Updated: 01-Jan-1994 Notes: This mailing list is for the discussion of live action role playing, most often the type not covered by IFGS-style games, but open to all discussions of interactive literature (another name for live action role playing games!). US Mail address for the ILF: PO Box 196 Merrifield, VA 22116-0196 The ILF's quarterly journal is called METAGAME and articles about live action role playing are always welcome! Send articles to: jim@visix.com. Other questions about the ILF should be sent to: Terilee Edwards Il-info is NOT a function of nor is it sponsored by the Interactive Literature Foundation and never really has been. It is a mail repeater run by Tom Jewell of Cruel Hoax Productions (an IL game production group) as a public service. Tom is not associated with the ILF and merely sponsors the list for fun. (see also the General Faq, Part 2, about periodicals) Name: The Warhammer 40K Mailing List Contact: war40k-request@bismarck.gatech.edu List: war40k@bismarck.gatech.edu Admin: Greg Williams Status: Active Info Updated: 12-Jan-1992 Notes: Reviews of 40K books as they come out, preferably from more than one source. Other people's armies in detail. A section on paint schemes and markings. New equiptment. Houserules. Discussions of tactics in 40K. What's worked for you in the past, Space Marine, etc. Name: The San Francisco Bay Area Gamer's Mailing List Contact: bag-request@gomez.intel.com (D. J. McCarthy) List: List adress made available once a new member has subscribed. Archived: No Info Updated: 23-SEP-1991 Notes: The Bay Area Gamer's mailing list is for discussion and information-spreading about various role-playing, board, and war games and conventions throughout the 408, 415, and 510 area codes. Name: The Miniatures Mailing List Contact minilist-request@cs.unc.edu Status: Inactive Notes: The Figures Mailing List was an archived mailing list for discussion of painting, sculpting, converting, and displaying of miniature figurines, generally for wargaming or fantasy role-playing games, and generally in the smaller scales (15mm-30mm). Back issues are still available from an archive server. For information, send e-mail to minilist-request@cs.unc.edu with subject HELP Name: Ravenloft Mailing List Contact: rl-request@umcc.umich.edu List: to be given with new member information Archived: ftp from tybalt and greyhawk Info Updated: 20-April-1993 Notes: Chat about doomful things in general, centered around TSR's campaign world of Ravenloft. Archived materials include reviews, discussion, monsters, magic items, computerized sound files, etc. Name: Amber Mailing List Contact: amber-request@hagar.ph.utexas.edu List: amber@hagar.ph.utexas.edu Listowner: bailey@hagar.ph.utexas.edu Moderator: Ed Bailey Archived: hagar.ph.utexas.edu:/pub/misc/amber/log Info Updated: 12/1/93 Notes: This list is for the discussion of the Amber Diceless Role-Playing Game and the Amber novels, and is completely unmoderated. Archives are now available of the AMBER mailing list, on hagar.ph.utexas.edu in the directory /pub/misc/amber. Name: The Wizards of the Coast announcement list Contact: listserv@wizards.com List: not applicable Moderator: Peter D Adkison Notes: This mailing list is used for general announcements and press releases. Posting to this list should only be done by WotC personnel. Membership on this list will keep you informed of forthcoming WotC products, changes in management, and so forth. Mail volume is kept light, and all messages clearly state the intent of the message right at the beginning so people can skip to the next message if they're not interested. Requirements: None. We recommend that everyone who has any interest in Wizards of the Coast at all join this mailing list. Name: The Talislanta discussion group Subscription: listserv@wizards.com Posting: talislanta-l@wizards.com Moderator: Beverly Marshall Saling (persistence@wizards.com) Notes: Free form discussion of the Talislanta game system and universe. Name: The Primal Order discussion group Subscription: listserv@wizards.com Posting: tpo-l@wizards.com Moderator: Peter D Adkison Notes: Free form discussion of *The Primal Order.* The author of the book is the moderator of the group. Name: The Experts development group Subscription: listserv@wizards.com Posting: experts-l@wizards.com Moderator: Peter D Adkison Notes: This group focuses in on the task of writing integration notes for converting gaming stats from some system-independent platform to various game systems. The integration notes for *The Primal Order,* and the upcoming *Pawns: The Opening Move* were written by this group. If you're a rules-lawyer this is the place for you. Requirements: Thorough knowledge of at least one game system in print. Name: The Rivals of Estedhil development group Subscription: listserv@wizards.com Posting: rivals-l@wizards.com Moderator: Jonathan Tweet Notes: This group is for playtesting and critique of the *Rivals of Estedhil* module being written for Wizards of the Coast by Jonathan Tweet (*Ars Magica, Talislanta, Over The Edge*). This module is for the Primal Order line. Requirements: Familiarity with *The Primal Order.* Name: The Art of Game Mastering development group Subscription: listserv@wizards.com Posting: taogm-l@wizards.com Moderator: Ken McGlothlen Notes: Development group for discussion, critique, and research involving the forthcoming book by Ken McGlothlen, *The Art of Game Mastering (TaoGM).* Name: The Military Order development group Subscription: listserv@wizards.com Posting: tmo-l@wizards.com Moderator: Peter D Adkison Notes: Development group for discussion, critique, and research involving the forthcoming capsystem by Peter Adkison, *The Military Order.* Name: gurps-announce-ext Subscription: laird@think.com Posting: on approval of subscription Moderator: Laird Popkin (laird@think.com) Notes: gurps-announce-ext, is for occasional GURPS product and playtest announcements and things along those lines. Name: gurps-ext Subscription: laird@think.com Posting: on approval of subscription Moderator: Laird Popkin (laird@think.com) Notes: gurps-ext, is for general GURPS discussion. It's a small list right now, intended for "serious" discussions of GURPS issues. The current topic of discussion is "what should be in the next edition of the GURPS Basic Set." Name: Chaosium Digest Contact: appel@erzo.berkeley.edu Notes: The Chaosium Digest shall specifically be a forum for all of the great Chaosium games that do not already have a place of discussion. This includes (but is not limited to): Basic Role Playing, Call of Cthulhu, Elric!, Elfquest, Hawkmoon, Pendragon, Ringworld, Stormbringer, Superworld, Worlds of Wonder, Arkham Horror, Perilous Encounters and Stomp! The Chaosium Digest will NOT include articles for games which already have forums of discussion. As far as I know, this only includes Runequest right now (all discussion on Runequest should be directed to the excellent RuneQuest digest, administered by Henk Langeveld). Name: The FRP Portable Tools Project Contact: listserv@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca Trouble: pascal@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca List: character-gen@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca Status: ** Currently Down ** Archived: Automated access from listserv (above) Info Updated: 13-Mar-1993 Notes: The goal of this project is to become the GNU of the FRP world. We are a group of primarily AD&D players who have gotten together to write programs in portable ANSI C for everyone to use. Being tired of substandard shareware, this group desires to create quality software for both the players and the GMs that is completely free to the user. Programmers and documentation writers are always welcome, but if you don't feel like contributing in those areas, your ideas are valuable also! Name: NERO NY / Ashbury Contact: Lsonko@pearl.tufts.edu List: see above Status: Active Info Updated: 2-Aug-1993 Notes: This mailing list is for announcements for and about NERO NY / Ashbury. Any type of announcement, In-game or Out-of-Game may be posted. Please note that it is not intended for open discussions. Name: R.Talsorian Games List Subscribe: Archive-Server@runic.via.mind.org (join rtal) List: rtal@runiv.via.mind.org Notes: Apparently for the discussion of R.Talsorian products, i.e Mekton, CyberPunk, CP2020, TFOS... Name: NERPS -- Net Enhancements for Role-Playing Shadowrun Contact: LISTSERV@HEARN.BITNET or LISTSERV@HEARN.nic.SURFnet.nl List: NERPS@HEARN.BITNET or NERPS@HEARN.nic.SURFnet.nl List Owner: Robert Hayden Status: Active Info Updated: January 3, 1994 NERPS (Net Enhancements for Role Playing ShadowRun) is a mailing list that serves as a committee base for a group of individuals spending time organizing and writing up a series of net.shadowrun manuals. These manuals contain everything from new races and spells to new technology and alternate magic systems. Traffic is light with ~10 to 20 postings/day and ~50 subscribers. An FAQ is available from the listowner, and is also mailed to new subscribers. Name: The Palladium Mailing List To Subscribe: palladium-request@soda.berkeley.edu List: palladium@soda.berkeley.edu Maintainer: Scott MacFiggen Notes: The list is for discussion about any aspect of any palladium roleplaying game or palladium in general. There is also an ftp site set up for palladium material. The address is soda.berkeley.edu pub/palladium Name: EARTHDAWN Mailing List To Subscribe: listserver@ovid.fit.qut.edu.au List Owner: Chris Ryan Notes: FASA's new fantasy RPG, Earthdawn, has its own mailing list. This list covers all aspects of Earthdawn (rules, setting, campaigns, etc) plus the crossovers to ShadowRun. 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