I'm assembling dozens of threads into the pieces of the genre sourcebook for Fly From Evil - notes on everything from the decay of bodies to the models of...
S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Dec 2, 2000 7:22 am
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After the past several months of experimenting with the playtest method and exceptions to it, I've revised my approach somewhat. Even playtest gets playtested!...
S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jan 5, 2001 1:05 pm
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Will you have any information about Europe or Canada?...
don.lang@...
Jan 23, 2001 12:13 pm
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... Yes and no, but more no than yes. Europe: FFE has a general history/era chapter that will discuss significant events in Europe, but the focus in the main...
S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jan 23, 2001 12:49 pm
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Thanks for explaining what you are doing rather than just answering yes or no. Appreciated. Wish you well, I quite like this period for just this kind of...
don.lang@...
Jan 24, 2001 4:30 am
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... No problem; I like talking about FFE :) Someday, I certainly intend to tackle the European mode of crime fiction, as well ... future FFE supplements will...
S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jan 24, 2001 4:41 am
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Of potential interest: A collection of "Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett" will be published in May by Counterpoint Press [ISBN: 1582430810]. It'll be a big...
S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Mar 14, 2001 1:25 pm
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I had to join this list, as this game hits on a subject I really like :) I've only seen one game, Noir, that's based on this kind of subject and unfortunatley...
Allen
Allensh@...
Jun 20, 2001 5:46 am
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... The original pulp-era crime-drama RPG is Gangbusters, published by TSR Way Back When. I think it's still the best of the bunch. NOIR was an interesting ...
S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jun 20, 2001 5:51 am
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... interesting ... and ... game). Note that I was thinking simultaneously of Danger International and Justice, Incorporated, which is why I put that comma in...
S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jun 20, 2001 5:59 am
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... Yeah, I remember that now. I had that game at one time and actually ran it; it was pretty decent. ... I had that one as well at one time, although I never ...
allensh
Allensh@...
Jun 21, 2001 3:44 am
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... Aaron lives here in town, of course, and was nice enough to donate a copy of Crime Fighter to my game library so I could play it and describe it properly ...
S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jun 21, 2001 3:54 am
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Hi, I heard somewhere that a FFE pdf download was being developed. Any news on when it might be available? Thanks Max Cairnduff ...
Max Cairnduff
max_cairnduff@...
Jul 18, 2001 3:10 pm
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... Sort of, sure :) Fly From Evil, like any Cumberland Games title, will exist _entirely_ as a PDF download, so it's not so much "a" PDF download as "the" PDF...
S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jul 18, 2001 3:19 pm
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Cool, thanks for letting me know. As for me, I'd rather have it right than soon, so no complaints here (not that it would really matter if there were, but...
Max Cairnduff
max_cairnduff@...
Jul 19, 2001 12:32 am
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With apologies for those on multiple lists who recieve this more than once! I don't normally do that, but this is a site worth visiting: http://www.gidfa.org/ ...
S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Sep 21, 2001 1:16 pm
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Pinkerton's, baby. Or a less-actionable "National Detective Agency" treatment (think Dashiell Hammett's "The Continental Op" stuff). Graft, corruption,...
webmaster@...
Oct 2, 2001 2:09 am
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... That's the absolute core of Fly From Evil. It's there, and since Pinkerton's is historical (and current) fact, and Fly From Evil is a historical RPG, I...
S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Oct 2, 2001 2:19 am
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or on when a pdf starterkit might be available? The public has a right to know (of course, we aren't quite the public as this is a private list, but we're...
... I could scrape some bits of "progress report" together and pretend they're news :) Right now, I'm mostly hip-deep in the San Francisco Sourcebook and Genre...
Well, I'll volunteer yet again for playtesting duty. I didn't get picked last time around, but there's no harm in trying again... ;-) Proud member of the Fifth...
... Yeah, it's true that I'm a Right Picky Bastard, and the process isn't trivial: http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/playtest.htm I'm up to about a 66% rejection...
Turner Classic Movies is showing a series of tapeworthy Fly From Evil related films tonight (showtimes are Central Standard Time; adjust for wherever you are)....
TCM continues to crank out the Robinson classics as their monthly feature; they just finished showing Bullets or Ballots (with that sweet gunfight with Bogart...
Not directly Fly From Evil related, but of tangential interest to those who like crime gaming: Mean Streets has been released today! This is the URL you want:...
I was just doing some mailing list maintenance, and realized that I posted the URL for my Mean Streets review to my general Cumberland Games mailing list...
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