Re: freeflow games & "roleplaying" definitions

From: Kevin Cowley <ketil@argonet.co.uk>

Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 00:00:00 +0000

In article <pp+4x0C/kwXS090yn@southwind.net>, phoenyx@southwind.net (Karen
J. Cravens) wrote:

[Snip]
> But, to get back to my original point (which you also missed if
> you missed my original post), what's your definition of
> "roleplaying" as related to PBM?  It seems to be that it's
> different in r.g.pbm versus, say, r.g.frp.misc.  The PBM flavor
> is usually a closer relative to PBM wargames, interbred somewhere
> with so-called "CRPG's" like Ultima, whereas what the OP was
> looking for (and what the Phoenyx sponsors) is closer to the
> usual "tabletop" (I hesitate to say "live" since that confuses
> people with LARP) game, where there's more rule-less interaction.
> I confess to loading up my web browser only in a blue moon, so I
> haven't visited your site to enlighten myself.
>

Ok. lurker Alert. Well not quite its just I don't post unless I have
something valid to say.
Whilst Phil is quite capable of defending himself a third point of view
might be useful.

As a roleplayer of long standing, I originally got involved in PBMs playing
Keys of Medokh. This was basically a high fantasy fully computer moderated
economic stratergy kindom building game. When I'm looking for a PBM I look
for equivalents of things like civilization, colonization, and the SIM
series of games, mainly because I haven't seen anything of a roleplaying
nature that 1) I'm interestd in , and 2) that looks like it would stanup to
close scruitany (sp?)

Now I am currently playing in two games that PhilDee run StarQuest (space
race stratergy) and Vampire (freeform roleplaying). StarQuest is of course
computer moderated whilst Vampire is hand moderated by Phils partner Dee. It
is free form and plays like a table top game. OK you often end up having a
one sided conversation, but the emphasis in the game is on roleplaing.
Since Vampire has only been running for a short while it doesn't fall into
your catagory of long standing but providing the quality of the turns
remains as it currently is I don't see why it shouldn't.

I would recommend that you fire up your web browser and not only take a look
at the PhilDee pages on TightBeam but also browse through the Vault and
Bizzar and take a look at what else is around .

For those of you who need the referance it is http://www.tightbeam.com/vault

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References

re:freeflow games & paying 2 play
Williams <mlwilliams@taz.dra.hmg.gb>
Tue, 09 Jul 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: freeflow games & "roleplaying" definitions
phoenyx@southwind.net (Karen J. Cravens)
Wed, 10 Jul 1996 00:00:00 +0000