About Norm’s Games Site

This is my, Nor­man J. Har­man Jr, per­son­al col­lec­tion of table­top game “stuff”. Things I like to have ac­ces­si­ble, to ref­er­ence in dis­cus­sions and to share with with peo­ples with sim­i­lar in­ter­est­s.

Some of the con­tent con­sists of my notes, ram­blings, ideas and ar­ti­cles. Al­so archived here are projects and con­tent pro­duced by oth­er­s. This is to pre­serve them from dis­ap­pear­ing off the in­ter­net and make them easy for me to find. “Plain”, with­out FoF nav­i­ga­tion, etc., pages are prob­a­bly cre­at­ed by some­one else.

If you are the copy­right hold­er of ma­te­ri­al on this site and do not wish it to be dis­trib­uted please ac­cept my apolo­gies. Then email njhar­man@g­mail.­com and I will re­move it.

History

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Had plans of delu­sion­al grandeur when I got these two do­mains http­s://www.frien­dor­foe.­com/ and www.frien­dor­foe.net (which I no longer own). Nev­er seemed to have the time to do any­thing. Well, fi­nal­ly some­thing is here.

  • Nov 2021 - Added YouTube, up­­­dat­ed for hav­ing moved to Tuc­­son.

  • Feb 2020 - Slow­­ly fix­ing for­­mat­t­ing, links, adding to /d down­loads, culling garbage and copy­­right­ed things. Added /osr Old School Re­­vi­val re­­source page/

  • Jan 2020 - Added many Im­age Gal­­leries of mag­a­zine cov­­er­s, per­­son­al pho­­to­s, scans of old nat­u­ral his­­to­ry book­s.

  • Dec 2019 - Found all this stuff. Moved most of it to Niko­la based frien­­dor­­foe site I re­­cen­t­­ly (re)s­­tart­ed.

  • In­­ter­ven­ing years - We­b­site down, Drop­box then Google Drive re­­duced need for putting stuff on in­­ter­we­b­s. I moved to Seat­tle, then Austin. Lots of game play­ing. Lots of post­ing on Troll and Flame Blog.

  • Jul 2007 - Ac­­tu­al­­ly made Djan­­go app live on the in­­ter­net.

  • Jun 2006 - Adding bunch­es of con­­tent to Dirt Cam­­paign.

  • May 2006 - Start­ed work on Djan­­go Ap­­pli­­ca­­tion to parse the ex­ist­ing dokuwi­­ki files, with func­­tion­al­i­­ty and aes­­thet­ics I de­sire. I end­ed up chang­ing the syn­­tax quite a bit.

  • Nov 2005 - Con­vert­ed this site and dded tons of con­­tent to dokuwi­­ki but nev­er pub­­lished it. Dokuwi­­ki is great, but I re­al­­ly want some­thing slight­­ly dif­fer­­ent from a stan­­dard wi­k­i.

  • Oct 2004 - Con­vert­ed make mess to an aap less of a mess. I now use svn in­­­place of cvs and it roX­­ors! Added Seat­­tle game group­s. Small up­­­dates to oth­­er con­­ten­t. Ren­abled and added source down­load­­s. Added bunch of Fudge down­load­­s.

  • ??? 2004 - Added my GameStor­m, Port­­land trip, Fudge, and mir­rored some oth­­er ar­ti­­cles. Start­ed new Buffy the Vam­pire Slay­er cam­­paign. Ma­jor struc­­ture re­or­­ga­ni­za­­­tion, more changes to use CSS2, cos­met­ic­s.

  • Mar 2003 - Added the sec­ond ar­ti­­cle of mine pub­­lished in Fudge Fac­­tor. Up­­­dat­ed con­ven­­tion in­­­fo. Added the “About this site” blurb above, up­­­dat­ed soft­­ware used and abused, fixed the source down­load.

  • Jan 2003 - Well, fi­­nal­­ly mov­ing this from my test server, to a place peo­­ple can ac­­tu­al­­ly reach it. Stil­l, most­­ly a skele­­ton.

  • Nov 2002 - Wrote all the Chee­­tah tem­­plates, learned GNU make and had a ter­ri­ble time get­t­ing things to work. But, voila, a site is born.