Re: Comments, and an idea...

> 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