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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...
GRAB A BLANK TAPE ... Turner Classic Movies is showing some fun stuff tonight. After the Thin man is in the home stretch, now (an obvious favorite, with both a...
This week, I've had a lot of Fly From Evil correspondence, including one _really_ long exchange that ended up reading like a half-written Fly From Evil FAQ ......
Key Largo starts on TCM in a few minutes, and it's been a good day since the break of dawn (both Angels with Dirty Faces and The Petrified Forest have aired). ...
Just saw this mentioned over on the Daily Illuminator... http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historic_us_cities.html And thought I'd pass it along to here....
... Amusingly (perhaps), that's the library (the PCL) where I do 75% of the Fly From Evil research, anyway (at the physical archive, not the website), and, in...
One of the local playtesters pointed this out today; its good news! http://www.svgames.com/downloads-wotc-gangbusters.html Gangbusters and the three adventures...
Just joined the list and thought I'd put a few questions forward: 1. As I'm a huge fan of Raymond Chandler, how much material are you devoting to other major...
Good morning :) ... The genre/period sourcebook will include a whirlwind tour of other American cities of the time; major ones like Los Angeles get a couple of...
Greetings everyone. I recently joined this list and wanted say hello. I've been a fan of hard-boiled detective stories for sometime now (I'd say Chandler in my...
... I think you missed some classic RPGs ;) The most serious omission is the one and only GANGBUSTERS by Mark Acres (TSR). Years later, it's [first edition]...
Not from me, mind you. I don't have anything to add, except that I did finally read Poodle Springs on your recommendation (S. John) and quite enjoyed it. So...
... This past week I've been doing expanded material on life in the FBI, including some fresh details I've dug out of some memoirs. I've also been doing lots...
If anyone's hovering near a keyboard, I'm in the #BlueRoom channel on magicstar.net -- you can get there with any IRC client. I'll be there for the next hour...
... Great! Well, it's a vague question :) The weekly campaign chugs along ... I'm actually a _player_ in it right now, which is cool. One of the die-hard...
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