Re: Best PBM?

From: "Enno Rehling" <enno!remove-antispam-first!@uni-paderborn.de>

Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Steve Pritchard schrieb in Nachricht
<879188872.8836.0.nnrp-05.9e989556@news.demon.co.uk>...
>
>>So as a beginner, you start these
>>games against guys who are way, way better than you, and some who
>>are way, way better than you probably will ever be at this game.
>>But they don't segregate them off, usually, so you end up being
>>cannon fodder a lot of the time.
>
>Please don't let this frighten you - there are a *lot* of PBM gamers out
>there who know what they are doing and don't mind helping out those who are
>new to the hobby. The "Trust Nobody" approach can possibly lead you to miss
>out on the best part of PBM gaming; talking to others and enjoying the
>diplomacy that results.

This is true. I started out in the world of Eressea a while ago, and found
myself up against one of the mightier factions of this world quite quickly.
I organized help -- and that was more fun than everything I had planned to
do before. I first got the new players around to form an alliance, then got
some older players to support us, and we've been doing really fine so far.
It's just the bigger they are, the more support you need to muster. And
that's a heck of a lot of fun.
(Okay, if anyone from Eressea reads this, we're not doing so fine now, but
that's just because a few of the Federation have left our ranks, and our
enemy suddenly has Level 4 Spells and we don't - yet).

Greetings,
Lord Infrared
Children of the Rainbow (64)

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Best PBM?
"Steve Pritchard" <steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000