PBEM Startup

From: smk5@quads.uchicago.edu (stephen mortimer kramarsky)

Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1991 23:30:22 +0000

Hi all,

I'm interested in adding a few players to my PBEM/fax game and I thought
this might be the place to look.

A few words about the game:  The game takes place in many different
times and places on many worlds, each of which is a shadow of a single
central world (a la Zelazny.)  The upshot of this is that there are all
different sorts of characters who must adapt to new surroundings on a
regular basis.

I'm a long time frp GM (I think 12 or 13 years or so, starting with
the paperbacks that eventually became Basic D&D (Men and Magic?)) and
currently a big fan of Shadowrun, but this in neither an AD&D nor a
Shadowrun game.  The game is not extremely structured, since its
focus is on storytelling, not "winning."  Roleplaying, or in this case
good writing, is the key to success.

I put a substantial amount of time into each (weekly-ish) episode of
the game, so I would appreciate replies only from those interested in
playing a fairly serious game. Since the game is, as I say, mostly
concerned with roleplaying no particular system-experience is necessary,
but I am mostly interested in gamers experienced in SOME system.

If you want, I can post an episode, but I'd rather not since they can
be long and I don't want to reveal more than I have to at this time.

Please send me e-mail (at the address above or, better yet,
steve@faerie.chi.il.us) if you want to play.  Please include a
description of the character you want to play.  This character may be
from any period in earth's history, from any walk of life and with
any combination of skills and abilities you can justify in a coherent
history.  Note that the character should be HUMAN and without any
extrodinary abilities (magical, psionic or whatever.)  I will read
about your character and assign special abilities and talents once the
Power Majik is awakened in your character.  If you have preferences about
what your character will be able to do when s/he is "awakened," please
feel free to include them in your message, but I may or may not follow
your recomendations.

A note:  One reason that I have asked for experienced gamers is that
many decisions in this game are made arbitrarily by me for reasons
of plot or character development (I told you, this is a story more than
a game.)  This is true of decisions as to who will play as well.  I
may get too many responses to this (or I may get none :-), but if
that happens I will have to take the characters who I feel will help
my story most.  I appoligize in advance to anyone who I can't take.  I
am in no position to judge anyone else's ability or creativity, and I'd
like to say right now that I'm not going to do that.  If I can't take you
now, I may need you later.

Finally, we already have: a male japanese businessman from the 21st century,
a very old (90+ year old) native american medicine-man/shaman from 19th
century Arizona (don't flame, I know it wasn't called Arizona then), and
a 20th century college kid as well as a few others.  I am (here comes
that arbitrariness) not interested in wrestlers, sorry.  If that gives
you any ideas, good.  I'm sorry I've been so longwinded, and I hope
you'll play.  If you have questions, please e-mail them, since I don't
really read this group.

Thanks for your time,
    Steve

--
            Steve Kramarsky, University of Chicago Law School
             steve@faerie.chi.il.us -=NeXTmail always nice=-
     "All I did was kiss a girl." - Jake, the night before his hanging.

References

Celestial Empire - No more : )
dwagon@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Dougal Scott)
Tue, 24 Sep 1991 04:33:24 +0000