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- Archive-name: games/roleplay/part3
- Last-Modified: 10/23/92
-
- Archives
-
- FTP SITES AND MAIL SERVERS
-
- There is no general archive of rec.games.frp postings. However, several
- people maintain public-access archives of interesting and/or generally
- useful material as a courtesy to their fellow netters. In addition to
- archived articles, some of these archive sites offer articles which are
- never posted to rec.games.frp. If you want to find these articles you
- will have to use an archive server of some sort.
-
- Contents:
-
- Tabolport archive
- Navero archive
- The Guildsman (an amateur zine) archive
- The ADnD ftp site at tybalt
- AD&D ftp and AFS site at Stanford
- ** White Wolf ftp archive site
- Traveller-Vehicles ftp site
- Champions archive
- The Jayhawk series archive sites
- FTP server at iesd.auc.dk
- ** Tiamat ftp site
- ** RuneQuest Digest archive site
- GRASS-SERVER
- ADND-L FILELIST
-
-
- FTP Archives
- ------------
-
- Anonymous FTP archives can be accessed from Unix machines on the
- Internet by typing ftp <address>, where <address> is either an Internet
- address or a routing number. At the "Name:" prompt, type "anonymous"; at
- the "Password:" prompt, type your userid or "guest" (or something
- equally thoughtful). For further information on ftp, check the
- documentation at your site or consult a local guru.
-
- Users at non-Internet sites (especially those on BITNET/Netnorth/EARN)
- may want to try the BITNET FTP server at Princeton. To obtain directions
- on the use of the server, send a mail file containing the line
-
- HELP
-
- to BITFTP@PUCC.BITNET. An alternative is the ftpmail service at
- decwrl.dec.com. Again send a message containing the one line
-
- help
-
- to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com.
-
- Name: Tabolport archive
- Address: athena.mit.edu
- Contact: HENRY@critical.mit.edu
- Status: Available via AFS, not via FTP
- Info Updated: 29-Jun-1992
- Notes: Jemearl T. Smith maintains an anonymous FTP archive which
- contains material relating to Tabolport, a fantasy city being
- designed cooperatively by the readers of rec.games.frp.
- It's available in the Andrew File System under
- /afs/athena.mit.edu/project/tabolport.
-
- (Jim Bassman Davenport, who was in charge of the Tabolport
- project, has graduated and no longer has net access. Freeland
- K. Abbott, the semi-official administrator, can be reached at
- fabbott@athena.mit.edu. If anyone has access to Project Athena
- at MIT, Freeland has also put a set of the Tabolport files in
- a publicly-accessible locker named "tabolport".)
-
- Name: Navero
- Address: ics.uci.edu
- Info Updated: 15-Aug-1991
- Notes: All issues (including the latest) of the Navero series of
- stories are available in
- /usenet/rec.games.frp/navero. The issues are compressed, so be
- sure to use binary mode to transfer them. In addition, there
- are a few other items in /usenet/rec.games.frp, like an Excel
- AD&D 2nd Edition character generator (written by John Roy
- <roy@ics.uci.edu>) and some postscript character sheets.(Thanks
- to Mark Nagel (nagel@ics.uci.edu) for setting this up.)
-
- Archive sites are also set up for the LaTeX versions of the
- Navero saga:
-
- Compressed:
- ftp.cc.gatech.edu pub/frp/navero/navero.tar.Z
-
- Uncompressed:
- ftp.white.toronto.edu pub/frp/navero/navero.tar
-
- ASCII LaTeX files:
- potemkin.cs.pdx.edu pub/frp/stories/navero/tex/.
-
- Note: This last site also has copies of EPIC and EEPIC, which
- are needed to create some of the graphics contained in the
- files. It is described fully in the readme file.
-
- Name: The Guildsman (an amateur zine) FTP sites
- Address: potemkin.cs.pdx.edu (131.252.20.145) in pub/frp/ucrgg
- greyhawk.stanford.edu (36.8.0.243) in D_D/Guildsman
- Info Updated: 12-Jan-1992
- Notes The Guildsman is an amateur RPG zine which is regularly
- inundated by gaming material from writers both on and
- off the net. It is currently available in LaTeX and
- PostScript formats.
-
-
- Name: The ADnD ftp site at ccosun
- New Address: ccosun.caltech.edu
- Contact: Gary `Lanz' Fuller <garyf@ccosun.caltech.edu>
- Info Updated: 25-Feb-1992
- Notes: ADnD and compatible stuff, including versions of the infamous
- net.spellbook and net.priestbook. Pop submissions into this
- directory: ftp/pub/adnd/inbound.
-
-
- Name: AD&D ftp and AFS site at Stanford
- Address: greyhawk.stanford.edu (36.8.0.243)
- Contact: Mark Steiglitz <steig@cs.stanford.edu>
- Info Updated: 16-Mar-1992
- Notes: This site contains most of the organized AD&D-related material
- posted to rec.games.frp. The files are stored either in their
- natural form or as tar archives. The archive currently
- contains the UCR Guildsman, various versions of the net
- spellbooks, character sheets, and hex graph paper, Alpha's
- Spells, the Elf's Gamebook, the Net Monster Manual, the
- Penultimate MU Spell List, the Spell Description Language, and
- the WATSFIC Tournament.
-
- ftp directory /D_D
- incoming files: /D_D/incoming
-
- The contents are also available on the worldwide AFS file
- system [AFS is the Andrew File System, if you don't know what
- it is, you probably can't use it. -LM].
- The files are stored here in their natural form.
-
- AFS directory: /afs/ir.stanford.edu/users/s/steig/D_D
- incoming files: /afs/ir.stanford.edu/users/s/steig/D_D/incoming
-
- Name: White Wolf ftp archive site
- Address: soda.berkeley.edu (128.32.149.19)
- Contact: Shannon Appel <appel@soda.berkeley.edu> (Ars Mag)
- Info Updated: 12-Mar-1992
- Notes: An FTP-able archive exists in the /pub/ars_magica and
- /pub/vampire directories.
-
-
- Name: Traveller-Vehicles ftp site
- Address: ocf.berkeley.edu (128.32.184.254) or
- plague and tornado are now a part of this machine.
- Contact: Steve Huntsberry <steveh@ocf.berkeley.edu>
- Info Updated: 19-Nov-1992
- Notes: An FTP-able archive exists in the pub/Traveller/vehicles
- directory, and maybe others.
- Contact-Note: George Herbert has graduated, and I have taken over the
- admin of the Traveller Vehicle Archives.
-
-
- Name: Champions archive
- Address: potemkin.cs.pdx.edu (131.252.20.145)
- Contact: trent@cs.pdx.edu
- cohen@spot.colorado.edu
- Info Updated: 24-Apr-1991
- Notes: The champions archive is now active and accepting submissions.
- There are already many characters, stories, plots, and gadgets,
- but we're always looking for more. To submit anything, place it
- in the tmp/ directory, and send mail to trent@cs.pdx.edu
- telling him what it is, and into which sub-directory it should
- go.
- directories: Bases.Vehicles.Gadgets/ Misc/ Characters/
- Plots-Stories/ Organizations/
-
- Name: The Jayhawk series archive sites
- Address: ftp.white.toronto.edu
- potemkin.cs.pdx.edu
- Info Updated: 1-May-1991
- Notes: Mary Kuhner's <mkkuhner@genetics.washington.edu> Jayhawk series
- of stories (high quality shadowrun writeups) are available in
- several archive sites. Mary has offered to mail the stories if
- you can't get to one of the servers.
-
- site1: ftp.white.toronto.edu
- file: /pub/frp/shadowrun/jayhawk
-
- site2: potemkin.cs.pdx.edu
- directory: /pub/frp/stories/jayhawk
-
-
- Name: iesd.auc.dk FTP server
- Address: iesd.auc.dk (130.225.48.4)
- Contact: Soren Parbaek <parbaek@iesd.auc.dk> or
- <at047@cleveland.freenet.edu>
- Info Updated: 3-Dec-1991, good until 31-Jan-92
- Notes: Contains: Archive site for the Rolemaster list, Complete
- scenarios to misc. roleplaying games, the
- net.plot.books, a list of rpg-clubs in Denmark and info
- on danish conventions. Submissions to Soren Parbaek or
- in the incoming directory.
-
-
- Name: Marshall U. FTP server
- Address: quayle.mu.wvnet.edu (129.71.32.151)
- Contact: Phil Smith <smith@muvms3.wvnet.edu>
- Info Updated: 4-Mar-1992
- Notes: Restricted to non-work hours Eastern Standard/Daily Time.
- Use the /pub/rpg and /pub/rpg/dnd directories, and incoming
- goes to /pub/rpg/incoming. The Midnight's Bane stories are
- in /pub/rpg/uploads/Midnights_Bane.
-
- Name: Northern Arizona University anonymous FTP server
- Address: rainbow.cse.nau.edu (134.114.64.24)
- Contact: William E. Wilson <wew@naucse.cse.nau.edu>
- Info Updated: 15-dec-1991
- Notes: Currently has general info for Traveller and
- MegaTraveller. Plans to expand offerings by including
- programs and game aids for Rolemaster, MERP, CoC, Dark
- Conspiracy, Cyberpunk and other game systems. If you
- would like to submit something of yours, just e-mail a
- description to the contact.
-
- Name: University of San Diego anonymous FTP service
- Address: usdcsv.acusd.edu (192.55.87.6)
- Contact: Jerry Stratton <jerry@teetot.acusd.edu>
- Info Updated: 15-Apr-1992
- Notes: Currently includes space for AD&D, Shadowrun, and Brand X
- (an original superhero roleplaying game). This is the
- distribution point for the Neo-Anarchists Guide to
- Everything Else, the net.book for shadowrun players.
- * last check indicates this site might not exist anymore - mod.
-
- *****
- Name: Tiamat ftp site
- Address: tiamat.umd.umich.edu
- Info Updated: 10/23/92
- Notes: All submissions should go into the /uploads dir,
- 2-3 days for a submission to be processed.
- Processed files in /pub/frp
-
- Quoting Mike Suzio (the maintainer):
-
- I'm hoping to make this site a Champions archive, since potemkin
- gets so little traffic, and I *know* there should be at least
- a few people out there with ideas for champions.
-
- Oh - I'm asking that all uploads be accompanied by a text file
- explaining what they are (especially with binaries; I don't have
- the time to run everything to find out what it is), and that
- you send me (msuzio@tiamat.umd.umich.edu) mail before uploading
- anything over 2 megs or so, just as a courtesy. Thanks.
-
- Name: RuneQuest Digest archive site
- Address: soda.berkeley.edu (128.32.149.19)
- Contact: Shannon Appel <appel@soda.berkeley.edu>
- Notes: An archive of the old issues of the RQ Digest
-
-
- MAIL ARCHIVES
-
- Name: GRASS-SERVER
- Address: GRASS-SERVER@wharton.upenn.edu
- Contact: GRASS-REQUEST@wharton.upenn.edu
- Info Updated: 14-Sep-1991
- Notes: GRASS is a project to explore Generic (i.e. usable for any
- game system) Religions and Secret Societies for roleplaying
- games.
-
- Archives of GRASS and of the Mythos Delvers lists, and
- interesting postings from rec.games.frp and other newsgroups
- which are appropriate to GRASS may be retrieved via the
- 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 the server address. Address comments to the
- administrator.
-
-
- Name: ADND-L FILELIST
- Address: LISTSERV@UTARLVM1.BITNET
- Info Updated: 9-May-1991
- Notes: Most of the net spell books are available here. all you have to
- do is send a mail file or BITNET style interactive message to
- that address. Each line of the mail message should include a
- single command. The most important command to know is GET. The
- second most important command to know is INDEX, which will give
- a listing of the available files. Maybe you should start with
- the HELP command.
-
- Some of the files on the server include:
-
- GNSB MAGIC the great net.spellbook
- MAGIC ITEMS the magic items list
- POISON DIGEST the poisons list
- TOME MAGIC tome of might magic
- CANTRIPS DIGEST
- MONSTER MANUAL fairly small monster manual
-
-
-