FUDGE

From: sdg@world.std.com (Scott D Gray)

Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000

On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Paul J. Clegg wrote:

> Anyone up from some PBeM FUDGE?  I'm afraid I can't at the moment
> run one, but I'd love to get in on a PBeM FUDGE game from almost
> any genre...

I have never run a PBM or PBeM game.  I'd love to try, though.

It depends on how many people are interested in playing, and whether or
not people can agree on a setting.

If you are interested, drop me a line (in private email -- not on the
list) telling me 1) that you are interested 2) what your email address is
3) what you want to see from such a campaign 4) which of the scenarios
listed below you would like to play and 5) which of the scenarios listed
below you refuse to play.

I would try to let much of the game take place _directly_ between the
players.  That is, I would try to set up a mailing list for the game, in
which the players would post as their characters directly, discussing
the events.  (An out of game post would be marked OOG in the subject
line, and a description of events by the GM would be marked GM in
the subject line, while individual character actions or descriptions
could be placed inside brackets in the text of a message.)

Some campaigns I'd be willing to run are  (I personally vote for "War
room" or "Space opera"):
   Intelligent, somewhat anthropomorphic, animals as PCs (a la Watership
     Down, The Book of the Dun Cow or The Jungle Book).
   Nexus world -- all of the PCs are from different worlds with different
     laws of nature (each is made using the objective character creation
     rules, with _individually_ defined attributes -- perhaps with an
     attribute list borrowed from another game system -- no player knows what
     the other characters are like before the game begins)  Possibly in a
     shared dream -- or some other environment that will keep the
     problems of initial incredulity about other PCs to a minimum.
  Senate -- PCs are Roman senators, and others who are faced with a mad
     emperor.  For flavor, not historical accuracy.
  Space opera -- all of the PCs are aboard an interstellar cruiser as
     officers (no one can start as Captain or First Mate) or passangers
     (think a Star Trek Galaxy Class Ship, or A Star Wars Imperial Cruiser).
  Trench warfare (WWI or WWII).  PCs are all on the same side, in the
     same unit.
  War room.  The PCs are US Generals and Cabinet members (maybe one is
     the President?) during a major world crisis.  Maybe one or two
     players (who would not be on the mailing list) would be foreign
     diplomats from the hostile nation(s).
  Wedding reception.  The PCs are from families that don't get along.
     With each other, or between any of the individual members of either
     family.  (Well, maybe not)

>
> ..Paul
>
> PS>  I'm not saying to play over the mailing list, but just in
> general.
>

-- Scott David Gray
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Roses are red, violets are blue, that's what they say but it just isn't true.
Roses are red and apples are too, but violets are violet -- violets
     aren't blue.
An orange is orange, but Greenland's not green.  A pinky's not pink.  So what
     does it mean?
To call something blue when it's not we defile it.  But ah, what the
     heck, it's hard to rhyme "violet".

--Dot's Poetry Corner, The Animaniacs.
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