From: rg-frp-announce@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Subject: [rec.games.frp.*] Roleplaying mailing lists and digests part 1/2
Followup-To: rec.games.frp.misc
Originator: cwatters@top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Keywords: roleplaying games, mail digests, bitnet mailing lists, administrivia
Reply-To: cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:10:27 GMT

Archive-name: games/roleplay/part4
Last-modified: 10/7/92

MAILING LISTS AND DIGESTS part 1/2

In addition to rec.games.frp, there are a number of mailing lists and
digests on the net which may be of interest to role-playing enthusiasts.
The difference between a mailing list and a digest is that a digest is
collected, edited, and distributed by an editor, while a mailing list
simply forwards all incoming mail to a list of subscribers. Mailing
lists tend toward high volume with many digressions; digests tend toward
low volume with high signal-to-noise ratios.

Note that some forums are available only for a monetary charge. I do not
wish to include them in this posting, and will not do so knowingly. I
appreciate anything you can tell me about the forums in this resource
list.

Contents:
       *The RuneQuest (tm) Digest
        MULTI USER DUNGEON (MUD) List
        Flashlife
        The Tekumel Digest
        The Elfinkind Digest
        The Pern Digest
        Stafnord RolePlayers (digest)
        BattleTech digest
	Fimbulwinter Newsletter
	Abandon Babylon
        ADND-L
        GMAST-L
        ROBOTECH - Robotech Mecha Listserv Group
        Conflict Simulation Games List
        SHADOWRN -- discussion of the Shadowrun fantasy game
     
Digests
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Name:           The RuneQuest (tm) Digest
Contact:        RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (Henk Langeveld)
Trouble:        Henk.Langeveld@Sun.COM
List:           RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM
Status:         Active
Archived:       FTP from Runequest Digest archives (q.v.)
		Automated access via GRASS-SERVER (q.v.)
Info Updated:   21-Jul-1992
Notes:          The RuneQuest Digest is courtesy of Henk Langeveld
                (Henk.Langeveld@Sun.COM). It is a collection of
                articles, discussion, and source material for use with
                Chaosium's RuneQuest fantasy role-playing game.  In
                July 1992, list maintenance has been taken over from
                Andrew Bell (bell@cs.unc.edu) who started it as the
                RuneQuest Digest back in 1988.  
                    
                Current plans are to automate the separation of
                "Discussion" and "Digest" as introduced early 1992.
                Under this regime, the Discussion would become the
                plain mailing list,  would be an automated mail relay,
                while reserving the Digest for longer articles and
                collections of Discussion articles.


Name:           MULTI USER DUNGEON (MUD) List
Contact:        jwisdom@gnu.ai.mit.edu <Joseph Wisdom>
Status:         Active
Info Updated:   4-Apr-1991
Notes:          If you are new in the MUD world, or are simply looking for new
                places to get into, try subscribing to Internet Games MUD-List
                today! Make sure to include the string "mud list" in the
                subject header.

Name:           Flashlife
Contact:        flashlife-request@netcom.com (Carl Rigney)
List:           flashlife@netcom.com
Status:         Active
Archived:       Mail from archive-server@veritas.com
Info Updated:   15-Aug-1991
Notes:          A Digest for GMs of Shadowrun and other cyberpunk roleplaying
                games to discuss rules and scenarios, ask questions, make up
                answers, and similar fasfax.

Name:           The Tekumel Digest
Contact:        tekumel-request@ssdc.honeywell.com
List:           tekumel-digest@ssdc.honeywell.com
Status:         Active
Archived:       anonymous FTP from:
                rainbow.cse.nau.edu in /rpg/tekumel (uncompressed)
                potemkin.cs.pdx.edu in /pub/frp/tmp (compressed)
                quayle.mu.wvnet.edu in /pub/rpg/uploads (compressed)
Info Updated:   15-dec-1991
Notes:          This mailing list exists to discuss the world of
                Tekumel, the fantasy world invented by M.A.R. Barker in
                the roleplaying games "Empire of the Petal Throne" and
                "Swords and Glory", and the DAW novels "Man of Gold" and
                "Flamesong".

                Anything related to Tekumel is welcome: game
                modifications, accounts of campaigns, questions,
                fiction, tables, NPCs, tips for converting to new game
                systems, etc. Listeners as well as contributors are
                welcome. This list is in digest format and is mailed
                when submissions warrant it (weekly if possible).


Name:           The Elfinkind Digest
Contact         elflist@lorbit.UUCP (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Status:         Active
Info Updated:   2-Apr-1992
Notes:          I run a small mail-based digest for elves and interested
                observers. It has been in existence for a couple of
                years now, but has not been posted about in public
                before. We have an open membership policy, so if you're
                interested in being added to the distribution list,
                please let me know. Details will be made available upon
                request.


Name:           The Pern Digest
Contact         pern-l-request@spec0.ee.man.ac.uk
List:           pern-l@spec0.ee.man.ac.uk
Status:         Active
Info Updated:   15-Mar-1992
Notes:          For those who are interested: the Pern digest is now in
                existence. It's still in its very early stages so bear
                with the moderator -- it'll take time to get going.
                Please put "Pern" or "Pern mailing list" in the subject
                of any messages you send Malcolm about the mailing
                list/digest.


Name:           Stafnord RolePlayers (digest)
Contact:        pierre@prpa.philips.com (Pierre Uszynski)
List:           No automated mailing. Send to the contact/editor.
Archived:       Partial, no automated access yet.
Info Updated:   6-Mar-1992
Notes:          Stafnord RolePlayers (SRP) is an open informal gaming
                group dedicated to role-playing games on the San
                Francisco peninsula (California, USA). SRP itself does
                not organize games, the game masters do. SRP provides a
                forum for scheduling games, finding players, finding
                game masters, sharing worlds and systems, etc... SRP
                generates a weekly newsletter to keep everybody aware
                of upcoming and ongoing games. We email 3 pages weekly,
                plus supplements at the beginning of new games.


Name:           BattleTech digest
Contact:        lsdav9376%7669.dnet@east.gsfc.nasa.gov (Glen Davis)
List:           No automated mailing. Send to the contact/editor.
Archived:       mail to lsdun4044%7669.dnet@east.gsfc.nasa.gov
Info Updated:   2-Apr-1992
Notes:          This list is a forum for the discussion of Battletech
                and related games such as Renegade Legion. Mail messages
                are grouped and mailed out periodically.


Name:           Fimbulwinter Newsletter
Contact:        dfn@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Trouble:        dfn@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
List:           dfn@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Status:         Active
Archived:       All.  Request in mail.
Info Updated:   24-Sept-1992
Notes:          Fimbulwinter is a playtester newsletter dedicated
   	        to discussion of Ysgarth and To Challenge Tomorrow from
                Ragnarok Enterprises.  It includes a question and answer
                section, articles on world background, examinations of
                game mechanics and previews of upcoming releases.
                It was originally conceived and designed as a newsletter
                for playtest groups, but it is now also available to the
                general net public.  It can also be subscribed to in hard
                copy at $5 for 4 issues from Ragnarok Enterprises at
                POB 140333, Austin, TX  78714.

Name:           Abandon Babylon
Contact:        dfn@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Trouble:        dfn@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
List:           dfn@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Status:         Active
Archived:       All.  Request in mail.
Info Updated:   24-Sept-1992
Notes:          Abandon Babylon is a topical news and info zine on Popes &
                Princes and other strategy games from Ragnarok Enterprises.  
		It includes a question and answer section, articles on world
		background, examinations of game mechanics and previews of 
		upcoming releases.
                It was originally conceived and designed as a newsletter
                for playtest groups, but it is now also available to the
                general net public.  It can also be subscribed to in hard
                copy at $5 for 4 issues from Ragnarok Enterprises at
                POB 140333, Austin, TX  78714.

Mailing Lists
-------------

The next few items are BITNET mailing lists. To join any of them, send a
mail file to the CONTACT address where the first line of the mail file
consists of the command:

        SUBSCRIBE <listname> <your-name-here>

        (e.g. "SUBSCRIBE GMAST-L John Doe")

Your successful subscription request will prompt the list-server to send
you a mail message with complete information on how to sign off the
mailing list and make other changes to your subscription. Read it and
keep it, or you'll be kicking yourself later when you're snowed under by
mail and don't know how to stop it.

Send actual submissions to the LIST address. Do NOT send requests to
sign off, requests for help, etc. to the list--you'll only succeed in
annoying people. Do not send submissions to the contact address; it is a
simple-minded program which will reject them.

Name:           ADND-L
Contact:        LISTSERV@PUCC.BITNET
List:           ADND-L@UTARLVM1.BITNET
Status:         Active
Info Updated:   1-Feb-1991
Notes:          The ADND-L mailing list is for the discussion of all aspects of
                TSR's Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) and Advanced Dungeons and
                Dragons (AD&D) role-playing games. A full archive of this
                list *might* be available through LISTSERV on UTARLVM1.

Name:           GMAST-L
Contact:        LISTSERV@UTCVM.BITNET
List:           GMAST-L@UTCVM.BITNET
Status:         Active
Info Updated:   1-Feb-1991
Notes:          The GMAST-L mailing list was originally created for the
                development of computer RPG aids, but it metamorphosed into a
                mailing list covering the concerns of the role-playing game GM
                (Game Master). Pretty much every role-playing game on the
                market has been discussed at some length, as have the various
                facets of ole-playing game design. (Most D&D discussion goes
                to ADND-L, however.) Limited archives are available, if you
                know how to use the LISTSERV database search functions.

Name:           ROBOTECH - Robotech Mecha Listserv Group
Contact:        LISTSERV@USCVM.BITNET
List:           ROBOTECH@USCVM.BITNET
Status:         Active
Info Updated:   1-Feb-1991

Name:           Conflict Simulation Games List
Contact:        LISTSERV@UALTAVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca
List:           CONSIM-L@UALTAVM.BITNET
Status:         Active
Info Updated:   1-Feb-1991
Notes:          CONSIM-L is a new list to provide an unmoderated environment
                for discussion of historical conflict simulation games,
                particularly the games published in Strategy and Tactics and
                Command magazines, but also including boxed games from such
                publishers as The Avalon Hill Game Company, Victory Games, and
                Game Designers Workshop.

                The explicit purpose of CONSIM-L is to provide a platform for
                discussion of recently published games, but discussion can
                range over the general topics of conflict simulation design,
                military history, tactics and strategy, game collecting,
                convention and club announcements, or any other topic related
                to conflict simulation games. As is the case on all unmoderated
                lists, the discussion and topics are only limited by the
                participation and interest of its subscribers.  Subscribers
                are welcome to take an  active role by posting and/or an
                inactive role by monitoring the list. Although not necessary
                for participation, it shall be assumed that all subscribers
                are basically familiar with board wargames.


Name:           SHADOWRN -- discussion of the Shadowrun fantasy game
Contact:        LISTSERV@HEARN.BITNET
List:           SHADOWRN@HEARN.BITNET
List Owner:     Brett Barnhart <BARNHART@KNOX.BITNET>
Status:         Active
Info Updated:   4-Mar-1992
                SHADOWRN is a list for the discussion of the game Shadowrun.
                This can be questions, comments, stories (fluff), anything to
                do with the game Shadowrun.

                Archives of SHADOWRN can be listed by sending the command INDEX
                SHADOWRN to LISTSERV@HEARN.BITNET

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