Re: Help for starting a PBEM??

From: phoenyx@southwind.net (Karen J. Cravens)

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000

In article <aBq6LMA8O7ayEwS9@phildee.demon.co.uk>,
Phil Shulkind <phil@phildee.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>kept saying roll. In the end he came up with a fudge whereby I crashed in

Basic GM'ing Rule #1:  If it's necessary to fudge a die roll to
keep a plot on track, don't make the die roll in the first place. :}

It's boring for me to gamemaster without dice, but I don't
usually use dice in conventional ways, and I don't hesitate to
throw out a roll I don't like.  I use it more like the old hint
on how to decide between two items you think you have no
preference about:  flip a coin, and if you're unhappy with the
result, you know you weren't really as ambivalent as you thought
you were.  But if you know your preference, you run with it.  As
true in tabletop as PBeM, except that in PBeM the players don't
generally know whether you rolled or decided.

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References

Re: Help for starting a PBEM??
Beowulfe <beowulfe@mindspring.com>
Thu, 03 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Help for starting a PBEM??
kiwif@southeast.net (Mrkiwi)
Thu, 03 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000