Newsgroups: alt.games.whitewolf
Subject: WORLD OF DARNESS: FAQ 1 of 5
From: [r j kirkpatric] at [ualr.edu] (RJK)
Date: 17 Jan 94 09:02:38 CST
These FAQ's were compiled by the great and diligent Deird'Re Brooks.
I thought they would be of some interest to those on the alt.games.
whitewolf list. They are relatively old, and with all the constant
changes that occur with White Wolf, they have yet to be updated.
They can be found (among other things) via FTP at the new FTP site,
illuminati.io.com, under the pub/usr/ebartley/Storyteller directory.
Enjoy.
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Date: Sun, 7 Nov 93 20:47:11 -0800
From: [d--r--e] at [efn.org] (Deird'Re Brooks)
To: Multiple recipients of list <[vampire l] at [wizards.com]>
Subject: WoD FAQ, pt 1
World of Darkness
Frequently Asked Questions
Or
Nearly Everything You Wanted To Know About
The World of Darkness
By
Nearly everyone on the vampire-l and mage-l
lists - their comments
find their way into random places here
I'm too lazy to list all their names, but
contributions are credited when and where
they occur
Compiled by
Deird'Re Brooks,
FAQ Drudge
This FAQ is divided into 10 sections and 5 files with a
section covering each of the following topics:
Part 1:
I. Administration of the Mailing List
Part 2:
II. The Storyteller games and the World of Darkness
III. The Camarilla Vampire Fan Association
IV. Cosmology
Part 3:
V. Crossing between Games
VI. Clans, Bloodlines, Tribes, Traditions
VII. General Background Questions
Part 4:
VIII. Product List for Storyteller
IX. Errata, Rules Questions
Part 5:
X. Ideas for Atmosphere - Music, Lighting, etc
Direct any additions, clarifications, complaints, flames,
suggestions or questions to:
[d--r--e] at [efn.org]
or if that bounces:
deirdre%[efn org] at [skinner.cs.uoregon.edu]
Trademarks: R. Talsorian Games, Night City and Cyberpunk
2.0.2.0. are Trademarks of R. Talsorian Games.
Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The
Ascension, Kindred, Garou, Quintessence, Golconda, all Clans,
Bloodlines, Tribes, Traditions, Disciplines, Gifts, Spheres,
Paradox, White Wolf, White Wolf Magazine, White Wolf Game Studio,
White Wolf Public Relations, World of Darkness, Wraith,
Changeling, Umbra, Gaia, the Triat, Weaver, Wyld, Wyrm, Gnosis,
Paths of Enlightenment, Abominations, Samuel Haight, Gaia, The
Camarilla, the Technocracy, Nephandi, Marauders, all Conventions
and anything else I forgot that is mentioned in this FAQ are
Trademarks of White Wolf Game Studio.
Any resemblances between people living or dead and
characters mentioned in this FAQ are purely coincidental, except
for the section on historical people turned vampire.
Note: In the cases of rules, background and other
interpretational questions, they are the opinions of various
people on the list, myself included, unless stated to be a
proclamation of White Wolf Game Studio.
I. Administration of the Mailing List
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What mailing lists relate to the World of Darkness?
Currently, there are two. Vampire-l deals with the World of
Darkness in general. Mage-l deals specifically with Mage. There
is also a list for the Camarilla fan club, but that is mentioned
farther down. It will have its own FAQ soon.
What is the List address?
[vampire l] at [wizards.com]
How do I subscribe to the list?
Send e-mail to [l--ts--v] at [wizards.com], with a blank subject
line.
Text should be: sub vampire-l <your name>
Address is not important, the list server software can
obtain that from your headers. The name is simply whom you'll be
listed as in the list of subscribers.
How do I unsubscribe from the list?
Again, send a message to [l--ts--v] at [wizards.com] with a blank
subject.
Text should be: unsub vampire-l
Name is not important for the reasons given above.
I have been told by some few that unsign vampire-l works
also.
Why don't I see my own messages?
After subscribing, the default for the list is to *not* send
you the mail you post to the list. To solve this problem, send
mail to [l--ts--v] at [wizards.com] with the following text:
set vampire-l mail ack
Mail volume is overwhelming, but I don't want to unsubscribe.
An option is to activate Digesting. This sends 40-50k
messages consisting of the several posts with some of the headers
stripped out. Send mail to [l--ts--v] at [wizards.com] with the
following text:
set vampire-l mail digest
Note that you can replace vampire-l with mage-l anywhere in
these instructions to subscribe to the Mage mailing list.
Are there any other Usenet discussion areas on this topic?
Yes, alt.games.whitewolf, which doesn't seem to have much
traffic at the moment. Probably because we're all flooding the
mailing lists instead. ;-)
Where are the Archives kept and how do I access them?
Message 173/173 From Shannon D. Appel Oct 14, 93
To: [d--r--e] at [efn.org] (Deird'Re Brooks)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 12:57:32 -0700
All you need to do is connect up to soda.berkeley.edu,
cd /pub/storyteller
and do an 'ls'. At the bottom of this letter, I've included my
top level README from the directory, which should provide you
with a listing of everything in the archive.
FTP just has a few simple commands: 'cd' to change directory,
'ls' to list the current directory, 'get' to get a file.
These are the archives of the VAMPIRE mailing list. Send any
questions to
[a--p--l] at [erzo.berkeley.edu.]
Contents:
archives ; a compilation of everything posted to the
; VAMPIRE list
bynight ; includes Paris By Night, a campaign setting
; for WoD
camarilla ; information on The Camarilla
character-sheets ; character sheets for VAMPIRE
fiction ; logs of chronicles written by people on the
; list
mage ; some fun items for MAGEs in the WoD
pictures ; scans from the VAMPIRE and MAGE books
probabilities ; postscript plots for the dice of VAMPIRE
programs ; includes a filemaker pro db for VAMPIRE
rules ; Anne Rice and Highlanger rule variants for
; vampire
uploads ; where to put the stuff you upload to this
; site
; be sure to let me know when you do so
vampire ; clans and other info specific to VAMPIRE
werewolf ; tribes and other info specific to VAMPIRE
Note that the majority of the files are in compressed format
(denoted by a .Z at the end of the filename). You should make
sure that you type 'binary' at your FTP prompt before downloading
any of these files. Once you have downloaded the file, you
should be able to type 'uncompress filename.Z' on your local
system. If you do not have access to uncompress, you can type:
get filename
rather than:
get filename.Z
at the FTP prompt to have soda automagically uncompress the file
for you.
<Another note: There is another archive at the University of
Washington, but I don't have the info. If some kind soul could
send it . . .>
Some words of advice from Beth Bartley -
I recognize that we've got a volume problem, but I don't think
that splitting the list is a good solution; there are too
volume-heighteners that won't change, and there are too many of
us who would be subscribed to multiple lists and get crossover
hassles and more administrivia sent to the list addresses.
Instead, I think we should adopt some volume-reduction
techniques:
(1) The only one that a beleagered recipient can do on his own,
mail listserv with 'set vampire-l mail digest' to get digest
format.
(2) Please, people, don't send unsubscription directions to the
list as a separate post. Include them in a .sig or somesuch
if you think it will help (I'm giving it a try), and send
mail to the twit directly (preferably LENGTHY mail. :-/ )
(3) Please, *please*, everyone remember to send all
administration requests to [L--TS--V] at [wizards.com.] If that
fails, you can reach a human at [P--MA--R] at [wizards.com.]
<FAQ Drudge note: You can also reach the Network Secretary if
you have problems. That is [n--ts--c] at [wizards.com]>
(4) People have asked us to preface the messages with VAMP,
WERE, or MAGE. I suggest META for discussing the list
itself, VAMP, WERE and MAGE (and maybe MUMMY) for discussing
the appropriate systems, VAMPWERE, etc. for crossovers, WoD
for general background material, and RULES for general rules
material.
(5) PLeaSe remember that 'reply' sends to the the list as a
whole, and send e-mail personal mail to directly to the
'from' address. And if a few of the more frequent posters
would be so kind as to include something like this .sig at
the end of their letters....
5a: At least until the volume's settled down, ask yourself if
the letter you're about to send needs to go to the list;
will personal mail to the sender do?
5b: Everyone, please include your e-mail address at the end of
your letters.
If we work together, I think we can reduce the volume, in spite
of the broken reply function and the twits who send their
administrivia here instead of the listserver.
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Something cool was posted to the list, and I want to get it.
What do I do?
First thing, you can generally find the files at
soda.berkeley.edu archives as mentioned somewhere else in this
FAQ. If you _do not_ have FTP access of _any_ sort, send e-mail
to incessant archivers (myself, Elizabeth Bartley, goddess knows
who else). One of us may have the item you're looking for, and
it will save the list recurrent spates of "Could someone re-post
<insert name of clan/tradition/new rule variant>? I missed it and
would love to see it."
<cont'd>