Comments, and an Idea..

>Date: Thu, 28 Jun 90 14:11 EST
>From: "Bruce T. Ritchie, P.S.C." [email removed]
>Subject: (1366) Comments, and an Idea..

>     In the mean time, I had a bit of a `brainstorm' the other day. I
>know, I can here you thinking "Oh God, what now". Read on.........

Oh God, what now?    :-)


>     In our current MT game we are always running into (and needing to
>generate!) interesting `characters' (NPC's that is). Wouldn't it be
>great if there were a whole bunch of these listed somewhere? What if
>we all share with the list some of our favorite characters (which
>could be our current NPC's or PC's!)? I would think that Name, UPP,
>home world, current status & location (and date), and a very brief bio
>might be enough. I'll give you an example below.

[Example saved and deleted for future use :-) ]

I think this is a great idea.  We could build a small data base of these
characters and that would be of great help.  Maybe we could pretty them up and
put them in some kind of "Standard form"  (Should we call ISO or ANSI?) and
when we get a batch of them, upload them to GEnie since they are kind enough to
let us have their files (of course someone is paying for them, but at least
they are letting us redistribute them).

I don't have the character sheets handy, but one of the first I will upload
(besides my numero-uno PC, Anton Devious) is a dude named Tad McBad.  He is a
bounty hunter.  He has a cool character sketch, but I will have to find a way
to scan it in :-).  I have a couple of other NPC's that I have used on
occasions to give my character's fits.  I will try to get some entered into
this computer and mailed out.

Rob

> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 90 09:03 EDT
> From: Rob Miracle [email removed]
> Subject: (1371) Re: Comments, and an idea...
>
> >Date: Thu, 28 Jun 90 14:11 EST
> >From: "Bruce T. Ritchie, P.S.C." [email removed]
> >Subject: (1366) Comments, and an Idea..
>
> I think this is a great idea.  We could build a small data base of these
> characters and that would be of great help.  Maybe we could pretty them up and
> put them in some kind of "Standard form"  (Should we call ISO or ANSI?) and
> when we get a batch of them, upload them to GEnie since they are kind enough to
> let us have their files (of course someone is paying for them, but at least
> they are letting us redistribute them).
>

I think this is a great Idea as well. Sort of like our own private version
of the JTAS's (Actually I forget the name of the article series now :-(  )
Anyway they had a description of a charater and then how a group of PC's
could meet and/or interact with said character. This last part is important
as it gives some insight to the operation of the NPC.

As a "Standard format" how about:
Name  UPP
Origins (Race, Age, sex, etc)
(Notable) Skills, Awards
Background (Past service, etc)
Current Activities
Possible Player Interaction
Optional Patron mission.

You are free to upload them to GEnie if you wish, however they were not kind
at all to us. We only have the Sector data, because the people at Digest
group gave us permission (as they were the ones responsable for the original
GEnie post). We have had the data for serveral months, and it took us (mainly
Mark Cook) this long to get around their (GEnie's) restrictions. The fact
that they are here at all is because of Mark Cook.

Uploading can be done to the TML ftp site, just let me know via email that
you have put something in the 'donations' directory, and I will move it to
the traveller area. If you don't have ftp access, you can mail me with the
information directly.

			-Dan

Dan Corrin, System Manager, Mechanical Engineering, UWO, London, Ontario
TML FTP site coordinator:  [email removed]    ...!watmath!julian!engrg!dan

>Date: Sun, 1 Jul 90 16:28:47 EDT
>From: Dan Corrin [email removed]
>Subject: (1376) Re: Comments, and an idea...
> > From: Rob Miracle [email removed]
> > Subject: (1371) Re: Comments, and an idea...
> > >From: "Bruce T. Ritchie, P.S.C." [email removed]
> > >Subject: (1366) Comments, and an Idea..
> >
> > I think this is a great idea.  We could build a small data base of these
> > characters and that would be of great help.
>
> I think this is a great Idea as well. Sort of like our own private version
> of the JTAS's (Actually I forget the name of the article series now :-(  )

I belive it was called Close Encounters.  On the subject of JTAS, what do you
think of "Challenge" (besides we don't get any new Traveller stuff here in
Louisville).  I hate it myself.  I understand why they did it, but it really
hurt Traveller.  Maybe if we could get the Digest Group folks "interneted" or
something then WE could put out our own quartly of the JTAS.  We would have to
call it something different, but we could do the same "general" format.  We
could have our Close Encounters, Amber Zone, and Beastiary sectons.  Amber Zone
was one of my favorite columns.  I found the most useful stuff the JTAS News
Digest.  This will be the hardest to deal with since it must come down the pipe
from GDW or Digest Group.  We could have our own articals, but still war news
and stuff we would want to be in synch with GDW.  Ideas?  Volunteers?

A. Devious
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