Re: Monster Island

From: v124jw4y@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Benjamin R Pierce)

Date: Fri, 15 Feb 1991 21:22:04 +0000

In article <91046.121109EEK101@psuvm.psu.edu>, EEK101@psuvm.psu.edu writes...
>
>   I am interested in any opinions anyone might have about Adventures by Mail's
> game "Monster Island". I played It's a Crime before and found it to be a great
> game. It looks like it's pretty much run the same way so should I expect a
> game as good as It's a Crime?
>
>                              Thanks

Monster Island is my personal favorite play-by-mail. You start off as a monster
on a desert island with nothing but a hunk of driftwood. As the game progresses,
you begin to make more complicated items, meet other monsters of varying races,
learn things about the island, etc. Be prepared to do a lot of mapping (I'm
using a Steve Jackson Games' Car Wars Map Sheet, which is similar to eight
sheets of graph paper, with one square on the map representing one square of
terrain. So far, it's about half full.) This is similar to It's A Crime, but
much more open-ended; in It's A Crime, you learn much of what there is to know
about the game after a couple of games. Monster Island is open ended, and new
things keep popping up (I've been playing for just over a year now, and the game
hasn't gotten boring yet). I recommend it, at least on a trial basis. It might
be more fun if you get friends to start with you, so that you can move as a
group and  eventually form a tribe.

-Ben

References

Monster Island
EEK101@psuvm.psu.edu
Fri, 15 Feb 1991 17:11:09 +0000