Path: pdxgate!ogicse!uwm.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!wharton.upenn.edu!millerl From: millerl@wharton.upenn.edu (Loren J. Miller) Newsgroups: rec.games.frp Subject: ADMIN: Archive sites with FRP material Message-ID: <1991Oct15.163705.1@wharton.upenn.edu> Date: 15 Oct 91 21:37:05 GMT Expires: 1 Nov 91 21:37:25 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Organization: Moss and Fern, Inc. Lines: 275 Posted: Tue Oct 15 14:37:05 1991 Nntp-Posting-Host: wilma.wharton.upenn.edu Archives FTP SITES AND MAIL SERVERS There is no general archive of rec.games.frp postings. However, several people maintain public-access archives of interesting and/or generally useful material as a courtesy to their fellow netters. In addition to archived articles, some of these archive sites offer articles which are never posted to rec.games.frp. If you want to find these articles you will have to use an archive server of some sort. Contents: eklektik frp archive Tabolport archive Navero archive Universal Simulation Mailing List (usml) archive The Guildsman (an amateur zine) archive The ADnD ftp site at tybalt AD&D ftp and AFS site at Stanford Ars Magica and Traveller-Vehicles ftp site Champions archive The Jayhawk series archive sites FTP server at iesd.auc.dk GRASS-SERVER ADND-L FILELIST FTP Archives ------------ Anonymous FTP archives can be accessed from Unix machines on the Internet by typing ftp
, where
is either an Internet address or a routing number. At the "Name:" prompt, type "anonymous"; at the "Password:" prompt, type your userid or "guest" (or something equally thoughtful). For further information on ftp, check the documentation at your site or consult a local guru. Users at non-Internet sites (especially those on BITNET/Netnorth/EARN) may want to try the BITNET FTP server at Princeton. To obtain directions on the use of the server, send a mail file containing the line HELP to BITFTP@PUCC.BITNET. An alternative is the ftpmail service at decwrl.dec.com. Again send a message containing the one line help to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com. Name: eklektik frp archive Address: eklektik.cs.pitt.edu (130.49.2.135) Contact: Anthony Kapolka Info Updated: 31-May-1991 Notes: eklektik is once again available as an anonymous ftp site. it contains directories with many rec.games.frp postings chosen as particularly relevant by Anthony Kapolka, the sysop. Other directories of interest include ones for the RQdigest, the GURPS digest, Traveller, Champions, and the Mythos Delvers. Name: Tabolport archive Address: f.ms.uky.edu (128.163.128.6)] Contact: jemearl@ms.uky.edu, jemearl@UKMA.BITNET, !ukma!jemearl Info Updated: 1-Feb-1991 Notes: Jemearl T. Smith maintains an anonymous FTP archive which contains material relating to Tabolport, a fantasy city being designed cooperatively by the readers of rec.games.frp. Look in the pub/tabolport directory. [For the time being, the FTP site at f.ms.uky.edu is only available during off-peak hours (6 PM to 8 AM Eastern Time. When (if) it returns to all-day operation, I would appreciate it if someone would tell me so I can remove this notice.] (Jim Bassman Davenport, who was in charge of the Tabolport project, has graduated and no longer has net access. Freeland K. Abbott, the semi-official administrator, can be reached at fabbott@athena.mit.edu. If anyone has access to Project Athena at MIT, Freeland has also put a set of the Tabolport files in a publicly-accessible locker named "tabolport".) Name: Navero Address: ics.uci.edu Info Updated: 15-Aug-1991 Notes: All issues (including the latest) of the Navero series of stories are available in /usenet/rec.games.frp/navero. The issues are compressed, so be sure to use binary mode to transfer them. In addition, there are a few other items in /usenet/rec.games.frp, like an Excel AD&D 2nd Edition character generator (written by John Roy ) and some postscript character sheets.(Thanks to Mark Nagel (nagel@ics.uci.edu) for setting this up.) Archive sites are also set up for the LaTeX versions of the Navero saga: Compressed: ftp.cc.gatech.edu pub/frp/navero/navero.tar.Z Uncompressed: ftp.white.toronto.edu pub/frp/navero/navero.tar ASCII LaTeX files: potemkin.cs.pdx.edu pub/frp/stories/navero/tex/. Note: This last site also has copies of EPIC and EEPIC, which are needed to creeate some of the graphics contained in the files. It is described fully in the readme file. Name: Universal Simulation Mailing List (usml) ftp site Address: topgun.agps.lanl.gov (192.12.184.4) Info Updated: 25-Feb-1991 Notes: Once upon a time, some net.people made a joke about writing a program or two that simulated the Universe. Ho ho ho. Pretty funny. But other people took them seriously and thus was born the short lived mailing list called usml, and thus were written a number of programs which simulated various parts of the universe. There are subsector generators for Traveller, star system generators using several methods, and plate tectonic generators to generate random land masses (not very pretty). Here are the contents of pub/usml: Actual accrete.c shebs Archive accretion.amiga siod.c Digests accretion.src starcul.shar List archive starform OtherSun.src cellsim_1.5.tar.Z system.arc Psychohistory fractal.c traveller.tar README plates.c xc5.1-tar.Z Universe references Name: The Guildsman (an amateur zine) FTP sites Address: watnxt1.ucr.edu (192.31.146.188) watnxt2.ucr.edu (192.31.146.189) watnxt3.ucr.edu (192.31.146.125) potemkin.cs.pdx.edu (131.252.20.145) Info Updated: 4-Apr-1991 Notes The Guildsman is an amateur RPG zine which is regularly inundated by fantasy and science fiction by a variety of writers both on and off the net. It is currently available via anonymous ftp in LaTeX source (and occasional PostScript) format from four separate nodes. The directory is /pub/ucrgg or /pub/frp/ucrgg Name: The ADnD ftp site at tybalt Address: tybalt.caltech.edu (131.215.139.100) Contact: Gary `Lanz' Fuller Info Updated: 12-Apr-1991 Notes: ADnD and compatible stuff, including versions of the infamous net.spellbook and net.priestbook. Name: AD&D ftp and AFS site at Stanford Address: greyhawk.stanford.edu (36.8.0.243) Contact: Mark Steiglitz Info Updated: 19-May-1991 Notes: This site contains most of the organized AD&D-related material posted to rec.games.frp. The files are stored either in their natural form or as tar archives. The archive currently contains the UCR Guildsman, various versions of the net spellbooks, character sheets, and hex graph paper, Alpha's Spells, the Elf's Gamebook, the Net Monster Manual, the Penultimate MU Spell List, the Spell Description Language, and the WATSFIC Tournament. ftp directory /D_D incoming files: /incoming The contents are also available on the worldwide AFS file system [AFS is the Andrew File System, if you don't know what it is, you probably can't use it. -LM]. The files are stored here in their natural form. AFS directory: /afs/ir.stanford.edu/users/s/steig/D_D incoming files: /afs/ir.stanford.edu/users/s/steig/incoming Name: Ars Magica and Traveller-Vehicles ftp site Address: ocf.berkeley.edu (128.32.184.254) or plague.berkeley.edu (128.32.234.21) tornado.berkeley.edu (128.32.234.15) Contact: Shannon Appel (Ars Mag) George W Herbert (Traveller) Info Updated: 24-Jul-1991 Notes: An FTP-able archive exists in the pub/Ars_Magica and pub/Traveller/vehicles directory, and maybe others. Name: Champions archive Address: potemkin.cs.pdx.edu (131.252.20.145) Contact: trent@cs.pdx.edu cohen@spot.colorado.edu Info Updated: 24-Apr-1991 Notes: The champions archive is now active and accepting submissions. There are already many characters, stories, plots, and gadgets, but we're always looking for more. To submit anything, place it in the tmp/ directory, and send mail to trent@cs.pdx.edu telling him what it is, and into which sub-directory it should go. directories: Bases.Vehicles.Gadgets/ Misc/ Characters/ Plots-Stories/ Organizations/ Name: The Jayhawk series archive sites Address: ftp.white.toronto.edu potemkin.cs.purdue.edu Info Updated: 1-May-1991 Notes: Mary Kuhner's Jayhawk series of stories (high quality shadowrun writeups) are available in several archive sites. Mary has offered to mail the stories if you can't get to one of the servers. site1: ftp.white.toronto.edu file: /pub/frp/shadowrun/jayhawk site2: potemkin.cs.purdue.edu directory: /pub/frp/stories/jayhawk Name: iesd.auc.dk FTP server Address: iesd.auc.dk (130.225.48.4) Contact: Soren Parbaek or Info Updated: 1-Oct-1991, good until 31-Jan-92 Notes: Contains: Archive site for the Rolemaster list, Complete scenarios to misc. roleplaying games, A list of rpg-clubs in Denmark and info on danish convensions. Submissions to Soren Parbaek or in the incoming directory. MAIL ARCHIVES Name: GRASS-SERVER Address: GRASS-SERVER@wharton.upenn.edu Contact: GRASS-REQUEST@wharton.upenn.edu Info Updated: 14-Sep-1991 Notes: GRASS is a project to explore (Generic, i.e. usable for any game system) Religions and Secret Societies for roleplaying games. Archives of GRASS and of the Mythos Delvers lists, and interesting postings from rec.games.frp and other newsgroups which are appropriate to GRASS may be retrieved via the GRASS-SERVER. To use the GRASS-SERVER, send mail containing the command HELP within the subject line and/or the body of the mail message to the server address. Address comments to the administrator. Included among the files on the grass server are the rec.games.frp administrative postings. Name: ADND-L FILELIST Address: LISTSERV@UTARLVM1.BITNET Info Updated: 9-May-1991 Notes: Most of the net spell books are available here. all you have to do is send a mail file or BITNET style interactive message to that address. Each line of the mail message should include a single command. The most important command to know is GET. The second most important command to know is INDEX, which will give a listing of the available files. Maybe you should start with the HELP command. Some of the files on the server include: GNSB MAGIC the great net.spellbook MAGIC ITEMS the magic items list POISON DIGEST the poisons list TOME MAGIC tome of might magic CANTRIPS DIGEST MONSTER MANUAL fairly small monster manual -- whoah, +++++++++++++++++++++++23 Loren Miller internet: MILLERL@wharton.upenn.edu Metal-boy go sky high dropping hat flowers asunder firmament