Re: HEEEELLLLLPPPPP!

From: Jesse.Taylor@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Jesse Taylor)

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 13:06:50 +0000

In article <1992Jun23.102658.512@ualr.edu> casmith@acs.harding.edu writes:
>I am interested in pbm games,especially AD&D style. If anyone would be so kind
>as to send me info. about such games I would greatly appreciate it!
>
>Much thanks from the Redwolf-------------------------------Craig
>CASMITH@ACS.HARDING.EDU

Gyah!!! With the frequency that this SAME @$#%@#$ question gets asked, it
should be put on the fraggin' FAQ. ANYway. Enough
Floyd-overdose-micro-flaming.

The poster of a question like this should be prepared for a couple hundred
different responses from all the AD&D PbEM Game Masters out there, since
*everyone* runs the game differently! There is *no* definitive style for
running a Role-Playing Game over the nets. Aherm, I seem to be getting off
track again.

Y'see, there are several problems with running games over the 'nets.
1) Some people who play these games actually have a life. Therefore they
will never be there when you need them, when the group needs them, etc. To
solve this, most GM's either
	A) Find these people and kill them early
  or	B) Run their games "turns" every coupla days so that people have
time to discuss things, think, play, and have a life at the same time.

2) Email is not realtime! Email is slow as a one-legged cow going uphill!
This poses a big problem to those who wish to run the game all day long,
running several days of game action in a coupla hours. They not only run
into problem 1, but some players *actually* like to think, discuss, etc,
before they send their characters into certain death.

3) Some players cheat! And there's no fraggin' way to catch 'em, and even
if another player turned 'em in, there's no *proof*. Solve this one
yerself, chummer, I ain't even gonna get into this. Just hope you hang
with honest people.

Well, that ends my micro-speil on the Glories of AD&D Play-by-E-Mail gaming.

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HEEEELLLLLPPPPP!
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Tue, 23 Jun 1992 15:26:57 +0000