Re: CHAT: RPGs (was Re: Wargs)

> Date:         Mon, 25 Oct 1999 19:34:19 -0600
> From: Ed Heil <edheil@...>
> I dunno, but I suspect that you might look to White Wolf as your
> culprit.
> [An excellent description of the games that keep goths from committing
> poetry, and the people who make those games].
> In any case, it would not surprise me one bit to find out that the
> "Wargs" and "Wolfen" of which you speak are part of _Werewolf: The
> Apocalypse."
Someone adduced Tolkien for "Warg", and I think I know where "Wolfen"
comes from; to wit, the first horror novel I remember reading:

    Strieber, Whitley: The Wolfen; William Morrow, New York, 1978

So White Wolf are just flattering those authors.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)