[PBEM News] Collaboration Needed for what I hope will be a fun game

From: jsampson@mizehouser-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (jtsam0204)

Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:38:12 +0000

I have an idea for a game that I am looking for several people that
would like to collaborate with me in getting it going.  This game
would be an RPG/Arena battle style PBEM.

Consider this message a roughly thrown together group of ideas that I
have come up with thus far and if you are interested in working with
me feel free to bring your own ideas.  I guess I should start off
with saying that this is strictly a �In my spare time� idea.  I don�t
expect to make any money and therefore don�t expect to pay anyone
money for there service.

Let�s begin�.

What I would like to create is an arena style game loosely based on
Dungeons and Dragons, meaning people would create fighters, wizards,
thieves or any other number of classes along with many races.  Just
like an RPG there characters will gain xp and gold and be able to
purchase weapons and armor to strengthen there character.  They could
travel from different cities and go on quests.  I have even been
thinking about the ability to create guilds and purchase homes or
build castles.  Much of this will be accomplished via arena battles.
For example if some player receives a quest to rescue a kidnapped
daughter from some evil thief then either the player would then enter
a battle with the thief and would fight him, or maybe the thief is
even stronger and has some protection so the player is then entered
into some multiple battle tournament where he has to fight several
creatures before he actually fights the thief and his wounds may or
may not carry over to each battle.  Along with the battle it would be
cool to have some imaginative people create a descriptive battle and
maybe even some interaction between the character and the person that
has the quest in that way we could have some ongoing journal of sorts
or history of the realm.  We could also have some players that may
want to be evil and say, steal some gold or a rare/magical item from
someone/another player and that would create a quest for people that
want to return the item or even steal it them selves and they would
be entered into an arena fight and the winner gets the item.  On a
larger scale if it got to the point where PC�s created guild�s and
built castles say to house there guild then other guilds could try to
attack each other to steal guild items or guild treasure, Which could
be large 20-30 man royal rumbles or single elimination tournaments.

If the game got large enough it would be fun (I think) to put out some
sort of monthly newsletter that talks about the major goings on in the
realm, some guild being overthrown or a major character being beaten
in a battle.

These are my ideas so far, at this point I do not have any time of
game mechanics worked out as far as what character stats will be used
how battles will be fought what spells are available.  Essentially I
have nothing but an idea in my head that you have just read about.

If this sounds interesting to you get in contact with me.  My email
address is:

arenafantasy@hotmail.com
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