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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------- 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 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. 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.] (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. ----- 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 ? I missed it and would love to see it."