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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Alarums and Excursions
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 10:03:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 10:03:24 1985
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
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Summary: 

Origins (a gaming convention) in late June awarded the Charles Roberts
Awards, its equivalent of the Nebula/Hugo.

A&E (an amateur press association for roleplayers) won the Charles
Roberts Award for Best Amateur Adventure Magazine.  This was the first
such award to go to a roleplaying magazine.  (It will probably be the last
one too.  They're thinking of abolishing the award in favor of one for
Best Magazine, on the grounds that there are too many awards.)

Write me for details if you'd like to subscribe.  Minimum cost is $2.19
a month.

Incidentally I've also just pubbed "Game of Fandom," a revised and
expanded version of the original track (chutes and ladder style) game
which originally appeared in the early 1960s.  This game is an excuse for
learning about old SF fandom events and comes with an "Answer Book"
explaining references to the story Ellison rejected as too disgusting for
Dangerous Visions, the Green Balrog, etc.  (It's $2.00.)

--Lee Gold