Re: AK - Adventure Kings

From: minnotte@stat.rice.edu (Michael Minnotte)

Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1993 21:09:04 +0000

In article <1v28v5INNg1s@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> bjohnson@athena.mit.edu (Brett W Johnson) writes:
>
>Adventure Kings is a character based fantasy military/economic/
>character-development game that is FANTASTIC.
>
>The system is easy enough to learn that a beginner can expect
>to reasonably well against experienced players.
>
Just wanted to echo Brett's comments.  I've just started my fourth
game of AK (2 completed, 2 current).  I've never played more than
two games of any other PBM game.

It's also a great deal for your money, as commercial PBM goes.  At
$5 per turn, its base cost is less than many games.  Also, you can
prepay the entire game for $50 (both games I've completed have gone
more than 20 turns).  Finally, 10% of all turn fees go into a fund
which gets distributed as game credit among the holders of various
offices and artifacts at the end of the game.  The game I just started
cost me only about $30 to prepay because I did well in the game I
recently completed.

Finally, if you've got a PC, Atari, Amiga, or Mac (I believe), you
can use the (free) SAGA program to enter your orders yourself and send
them by disk mailer or email.  No more entry errors!

Be warned: It's not as complicated as Legends/Alamaze/Middle-Earth,
but it _is_ a great game.  It has won several players' awards, and
was the first (maybe only) PBM game to get its own devoted guide
published by Flagship magazine.

>Phone number is (503) 643-3292 if anyone is interested.
>

He's also on Compuserve (and GEnie).  He can be reached from the
internet at 71750.1153@compuserve.com .  He has offered to send
the rules free to people who request them (and maybe mention these
postings).  Continuation of this policy will depend on how
successful it is.  At the least, he'll continue sending free
flyers.

Also, the (U.S.) snail-mail address is

Ark Royal Games
P.O. Box 6378
Aloha, OR 97007

(There are also GM's in the UK, continental Europe (Germany?), Australia,
and New Zealand.  I believe the addresses were noted in the big PBM list
posted a few days ago, or I can get them for you.  I imagine the above
offer would only apply to US customers, though he might forward on your
requests to the appropriate companies.)

>I have no connection w/ Ark Royal Games other than as a
>satisfied customer.

Same here.

Mike Minnotte

King Arima, AK55
King Anova, AK144
Earthson Sylvanus, AK190
General Varg, AK211

minnotte@math.usu.edu  <-preferred
minnotte@rice.edu

References

AK - Adventure Kings
bjohnson@athena.mit.edu (Brett W Johnson)
Tue, 08 Jun 1993 14:50:13 +0000