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From: greg@reed.UUCP (Greg Stein)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Forming our own gaming system?
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 00:55:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 27 00:55:51 1985
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	I was just thinking that with all of the suggestions and
changes people have made to all of the different gaming systems,
why couldn't 'netland' just create their own?

	I am proposing this:

1) Find a coordinator to handle the mailing list and count
	votes. (I would volunteer if no one else does)
2) We would start with some subject and people would send
	their ideas to the coordinator, (hopefully these
	ideas are terribly short, yet complet).
3) The coordinator would gather them all together in something
	like a digest and send it to everyone, say two
	weeks after first asking for the subject.
4) People would peruse the thing, and make a vote for some
	specific section within it.  There would have to
	be some way to have discussions about the sections.
5) The coordinator would take the votes and we would have a
	new section to our gaming system.
6) Another subject would be selected for discussion and
	creation.

	I think with all of the people out there, we could
get a lot of creative ideas fairly quickly.  One of these
days, when all is done, we'd have our own gaming system.
One of the advantages we have over companies is that, for
the most part, only a couple people design the system.  We
have an entire world full of people (sort of) who could
contribute their best ideas.
	One of the major things to overcome is where the
discussions are to be held about this thing.  Should it
all be over mail on over net.news.frp?  Mail could get
pretty cumbersome maybe, but a the newsgroup would solve
that.  Although, some people on the newgroup may not be
interested, and mail would solve this.  Personally, I
don't know how hard it is to create a newsgroup, but that
would be most ideal.  Imagine - a worldwide effort at
the ultimate in FRP.  The newsgroup would still need some
sort of leader, coordinator, moderator, whatever, so that
the conversations stay in-line, and there is a base for
archiving the current manuals and tallying votes.

	How about it netland?

			Greg Stein
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