Re: Help - I'm looking for an RPG to play

From: malone@acpub.duke.edu (Patrick S. Malone)

Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 00:00:00 +0000

<cc'd to poster>

In article <hOzrnGAmXQqzEwBf@phildee.demon.co.uk>, Phil Shulkind
<phil~@phildee.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Can anyone recommend a free role playing game, one that I don't need
>AD&D or any other system to be able to play? It needs to be suitable for
>inexperienced players such as myself, and it shouldn't need me to look
>at web pages to find out what's going on - email play is what I'm after.
>I'm only looking for a *fantasy* scenario, no Star Trek style sci-fi
>zzzzzzz.....!
>
>To forestall the inevitable, I've looked on PBM List and there was
>nothing along the lines of what I'm after.

I've found Irony Games' list to be very helpful for that; I've
recently signed up for a couple games I found there.

URL is http://www.irony.com/  .  Go from there to "Irony Games' PBeM
List".

They provide space for GMs to solicit players.  The postings are thus
all fairly current.  All or nearly all of the games are free, and the
majority are RPGs.  It's a different kind of resource than Greg's list
(which I also worked from a bit); it's specifically for openings in
games.  GM's merely submit a form, so it's continuously updated.

I find that I can usually see from the posting whether it's the kind
of game I want (e.g., in my case, any discussion of dice-rolling rules
sends to me to the next post).

HTH,
Pat Malone

--
Patrick S. Malone, Ph.D., Research Associate
Project RAPP / Reaching Adolescents, Parents, and Peers
Durham, North Carolina, USA
e-mail: malone@acpub.duke.edu
http://www.duke.edu/~malone

References

Help - I'm looking for an RPG to play
Phil Shulkind <phil@phildee.demon.co.uk>
Thu, 19 Jun 1997 00:00:00 +0000