Howdy TMLer's, one of us, Theresa Verity, represents a not-for-profit
association called The WarGamers, which serves as a liaison between RPG
vendors and their customers, do playtesting, and serve as a publication
library for paper and electronic information on Role-playing Games.
I've included some (somewhat edited) pieces of mail explaining what The
WarGamers are.
So here's Theresa:
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The WarGamers play all games and does not concentrate on one game or
company - unlike the RPGA... I'd like to be able to tell everybody
about us (so that we won't become just another large group of game
players) who is interested... I'd think that such information may be
helpful for gamers looking for an established (yet so far only
centralized in north Florida and southern Alabama - but we're growing)
and Game-Company sponsored/recognized group.
So far we have 5 officers who overlook specific areas (finance, RP,
Playtesting, etc), and have about 40 dues-paying members, and have
contact with 150 or so others. We playtest for Bard, SJ Games, ICE
(some times) - do reviews for SJ and Palladium, and are wholely
supported by: Bard Games, Palladium, FASA, SJ Games, GDW (a little),
ICE, Hero Games... We will be broaden- ing out to Games Workshop, BTRC,
and others in the coming months...
We have a 4 year history, and through that time have looked into
setting up nodes at out-of-town universities or gaming groups... In
the next few months (as soon as the paperwork is OK'ed) we will be
recognized by the Federal government as a non-profit organization
and donate funds made from our tourneys (1990 had 4 such events) to
various charities - in return we will use the money appropriated for
our organization to start a genaric gaming magazine that will be
devoted to ALL forms of RPG and ALL games no matter WHO puts them out.
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The 'Gamers have been around for 4 years. We have 6 officers: one for each
of our most busy sections of interest: Role-playing, Strategy/Board Gam-
ing, Playtesting, Computer RP/Strat, Finance, and an editor for the
Untitled magazine...
We are currently awaiting 2 things: approval from
the Feds that we ARE a recognized Non-Profit Organization, and our
move to the office we have set up..
We are in no way controlled by any
of our sponsors and act independantly from them (the before mentioned
RPG stores and the companies themselves) - sort of like a VERY free and
VERY open RPGA... We enforce no strictures on WHAT game is played - tho
we do not sanction open live-action Role-Play...
We offer discounts (working on a couple of other stores in the Arizona
and outer areas), comradery (if that's a word), ability to playtest, use
of the local libraries of RPG Source Material (and that's why I've hit
you guys up for your archives - they will be going into our library), and
many other things... I've put out a request at UWF to allow the WarGamers
or the student UWF Gamers (our first spouter group) to have a permanent
node address so that we can get an edge in to keep in constant contact
with gamers from all over - we WANT to grow LARGE and we WANT to FURTHER
gaming...
Please feel free to write to me or the WarGamers at the following
addresses: Theresa Verity The WarGamers (in May)
[address removed]
Pensacola, Fla 32514 P-cola, Fla 325??
In May we will be moving into the new office (yeah|), and in mid-April
I will be moving into a new apartment [Phone number elided - James].