New: Tales of Tamar (commercial, open-ended, email, mixed, fantasy, historical, gui, wargame, economic, rpg)

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 07:15:44 +0000

Name:		Tales of Tamar
Costs:		3-6 Euro/$ per month
URL:		http://www.tamar.net
Frequency:		every day one turn
Email:		eternity@pride.de
Type:		fantasy wargame
Last-Update:		2003Apr17
Keywords: commercial, open-ended, email, mixed, fantasy, historical, gui,
wargame, economic, rpg

Description:

Tales of Tamar, or ToT for short, is a turn based massively multiplayer
PBEM game. Thousands of players can play with and against each other on a
fantasy world. Players send their turns to the server using the software
client, the server computes the results and sends them back to the player.
The fun is in interacting with the other players. Each player in this role
playing game/rpg takes the role of the sovereign leader of a country and
has to build from the small village to a large realm. You can trade, wage
wars and use any diplomatic measure imaginable.

Currently, up to 1200 players can take part in Tales of Tamar. There is
one turn per day. If you want to become an alpha/beta tester, please
register now. register form

Costs:

The Tales of Tamar Base Set is 59 Euro and already includes 300 turns
(worth about one year of playing). Beyond that, Tales of Tamar is 3 to 8
Euro per month, depending on the package you choose. Within the game, you
can earn free turns through successful and intelligent actions. The
smallest turn package available allows you to try out the genre for only
20 Euro.

PBEM:

The term PBEM game describes the way a turn is handled through a server.
It resembles the older play by mail games. In Tales of Tamar, the players
send their turn to the server by means of a locally installed client. The
process of transmitting the data is almost fully transparent to the
players. They only need to know the address of their mail server, which is
used the send the turns.

Fantasy:

Tales of Tamar takes places in a fantasy world, not unlike the medieval
legends. Side by side with humans, there are dragons, dwarves, elves,
undead, orcs, mages, clerics and many more. Still, Tales of Tamar does not
overdo it. We consider our fantasy world as rather conservative.

Medieval time:

Tales of Tamar is based on the European medieval age between 800 and 1300 AD.

Role playing game/RPG:

Tales of Tamar is a strategic role playing game/RPG. Our world is as
interesting as you take on your role as a ruler and play this role
throughout the game towards other players. We have players who live by
trade, by war, by map making, as chronicler, explorer, pirates, etc. You
can choose any role you like. The only limit in this game is the limit of
your imagination.

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