[UA] Dissemination idea

Nick Wedig mrteapot at disinfo.net
Tue May 8 10:38:14 PDT 2001


On Sat, 05 May 2001 22:55:27  James O'Rance <jorance at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Greg Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com> said:
>
> >>>Why stop there?  I'd throw in stuff rom "Spear of Destiny" and "An
>Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols" -- to pick two off my
>shelf.<<<
>
>That's a good idea, except that the occult-type books on my shelf tend to be 
>printed with typefaces that're rather different from a standard roleplaying 
>book. If I was this player, I'd quickly sort the paper scraps according to 
>their typeface to get a clearer idea of what came from which book.

Of course, you could retype some or all of the excerpts to confuse players.  Or use a scanner which can recognize characters.  The fact that most of these I've used tend to work poorly wouldn't really be a problem, as it just obscures information more.

Mr. Teapot
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