GURPS SPACE FREE PBeM ANNOUNCE

From: Ken.Crossman@ualberta.ca (Ken Crossman)

Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000

I'm announcing the new PBeM science-fiction role-playing game I'll
be running, starting 1 June 1996. This game, called _The Long View_,  is
based on the premise of a weak human race in a galaxy full of older, more
powerful species; the players will assume human characters, and will
collectively seek to advance the situation of the human race. The game
will run at least for two months, up to a maximum of six months. Game
sessions will be held every second day. I am looking for eight to twelve
experienced role-players, all of whom must be capable of reading their
e-mail daily, and capable of participating in a two-hour IRC gaming
session weekly (time and day to be deteremined at convenience of players).
        The game mechanics for _The Long View_ will be kept deliberately
simple. Prospective players will draw up characters in consultation with
me, caharacters being complete no later than May 26; these characters will
be drawn up using the GURPS system ("Generic Universal Role-Playing
System", from Steve Jackson Games) and GURPS Space, with a hundred-point
limit. If you do not have GURPS or GURPS Space, I will help you with your
character creation. Experience with the GURPS system is not a
pre-requisite, but role-playing experience is.
         During the game, when dice rolls are required, I will roll them
and then inform you of the results (the character creation system of GURPS
is _not_  dice-based). Experience points will be accumulated during the
campaign , and characters will grow in both ability and reputation in the
game universe.  If characters are killed, the players will inherit the
experience points of their previous character to create their new
character. The ideal types of characters for this campaign are diplomats,
military officers, military technicians, soldiers, explorers and traders.
         Emphasis will be placed upon the role-playing aspects of the
game, rather than upon more conventional hack-and-slash headcounting. If
you love plot complexity, this game's for you. Encounters with aliens will
be both diplomatic and military; and choices made during the earlier
portions of the campaign will have efects on the circumstances the
characters (and the humans of the game universe) will face later in the
campaign. I will download a copy of the galaxy description to you before
you make up your characters.
        For more information,  e-mail me at: jquennev@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca,
or raid my web page at http://www.ualberta.ca/~jquennev/LongView.html.