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From the NAGEE Staff

From the Editor...

Welcome to the Sixth Annual Neo-Anarchists Guide to Everything Else, a Shadowrun fanzine.

This issue is remarkably late, and I think most of you know it. Well, there's not a lot I can say to you all, especially those of you who have been waiting patently through my busy summer and fall, so I won't say anything. I hope this issue will make up for lost time. Its big. Really big. And to further things, NAGEE 7 is soon to follow. I'll just pass on a few more bits of information, and then I'll let the other folks who contributed to this issue of NAGEE take it from there.

NAGEE Submissions...

I'm pleased to announce that I still live, and my house still stands. FASA has not yet sent anyone out to get me. I even had some kudos come from some of the FASA folks on NAGEE 5. So I guess I did something right. I even had an offer from Tom Dowd to give the NAGEE a once over, to give it that pseudo FASA sanction, but then he left the Shadowrun division, so I presume that's a moot point now.

I was very impressed with the number of folks who contributed to this and future issues. Most of them came from AOL (America Online), and some from the denizens of the Internet. I didn't expect the positive response to my call for contributions.

But, the NAGEE still needs more stuff. I'd like to see some more reviews of FASA Shadowrun products, as well as some of the novels. Also lacking are contacts and archetypes, cyberdeck programs, and other assorted `column' type stuff and filler, including stuff for the Bulletin Board.

Oh, yes. ART! ART! ART! Need that too.

So, keep stuff coming in! You will eventually see your stuff in print.

NAGEE Formats...

>>The NAGEE is released (as of this issue) in Replica, RTF, MS Word, and ASCII formats. I've been taking some hits about this new Replica format over the online services recently, but I think it will better preserve the formatting and artwork of the NAGEE. Send me your feedback on which version you read, and how it turned out.<<

Well, some of you sent in comments. Those who looked at the Replica version liked it. I had some serious troubles with Compuserve, their compression protocols kept fragging up the files.

But, like the above says, NAGEE 6 is available in those formats. To keep space requirements down on some systems, I'll only post the Replica and RTF versions. If you want any other format, let me know and I'll send it to you. Now that Adobe Acrobat is out, I will experiment with that and see how it goes. Replica has some troubles with some graphics formats, and can change the color tables on some graphics, so there may be a format change in the future.

Gopher Site...

The ftp and gopher site has changed. Okay, so this is not a new change. Fact is, it changed just after NAGEE 5 came out. But some of you still don't know.

The gopher site is now nspace.cts.com, which is still buried in assorted cool things to play with. Jerry will be posting the NAGEEs in /pub/Role-Playing/Shadowrun/

NAGEE, but if you got this NAGEE over the nets, chances are you got it there. cerebus now also supports the world-wide web:

URL gopher://nspace.cts.com/

The NAGEE is also available in the GIX Exchange in the Online Gaming Forum of America Online (keyword OGF), and Library 4 of the Role Playing Games Forum (RPGAMES) of Compuserve.

Comments and Suggestions...

I got an Internet account, no thanks to any of you out there. You can send me fan mail, hate mail, and contributions to aroooo@clark.net or Aroooo@aol.com. I'm not on CIS enough for that to be a reliable way to contact me. My clark.net account is better suited for long email, AOL doesn't reassemble long internet message chunks well, if at all.

Contributions to the NAGEE can be sent via email, but, if you have access to ftp, the best way to send contributions is to ftp to cerebus, and put stuff in the incoming/nagee directory. I check it once or twice a week. If you don't have ftp, email me and we'll work something out.

Happy Holidays...

Happy Hanukkah!

Merry Christmas!

Happy New Year!

About the Cover...

The cover art was done by me, Tony Moller. It was originally done for a totem I was working on, Hawk, but was never really happy about how the totem came out. But I liked the art.

This is the type of stuff I'd like to get more of. Folks have really liked NAGEE's new look, and if I am to keep that up, I need lots more art.

NAGEE 6, From the NAGEE Staff - aroooo@clark.net