Re: Hand-moderated role-playing PBM?

From: Carol Mulholland <carol@pbmgames.com>

Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 09:10:15 +0000

Dave Panchyk wrote:

> That was one of the ones I was looking at. Your Rumours entry left me
> wondering where Einstein's lot falls on the "X-Files to Cthulhu" scale
> of how "ordinary" their paranormal stuff is.

As far as I can tell, the paranormal follows an Old-Gods-Awakening-
And-Out-For-Trouble theme, but things happen comparatively slowly. My
character has run away from a sinister invisible serpent and a vampire.
The GM knows his history and mythology. Don't play for constant
violent action, though. Oh, and it's not a game where there's much
interaction with other PCs, though this isn't forbidden.

> It's cheering to me that there is at least one postal-only game making
> a go of it; I was going to try to "incentivize" (a term I learned at
> the Microsoft jargon-factory) players to go post-only.

I think that the demand for postal-only games is pretty low now. Email
has such a big advantage for diplomacy and is usually easy for GMs.

> In this country, folks are extremely cyber-oriented, and it's hard to
> convince many of them to accept "snail" mail. I was thinking about
> this, looking through Flagship. I have to assume that Britain had been
> slow to adopt Internet technology on the individual level, partly
> because of the expense. I started to construct a scenario in my mind,
> which I may post from work tomorrow.

I think most UK games-players have internet technology, and use it. Our
postal service is very reliable, though - for the most part.

Carol

References

Re: Hand-moderated role-playing PBM?
dpanchyk@hotmail.com (Dave Panchyk)
Tue, 01 Apr 2003 23:07:55 +0000
Re: Hand-moderated role-playing PBM?
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Wed, 02 Apr 2003 10:43:19 +0000
Re: Hand-moderated role-playing PBM?
dpanchyk@hotmail.com (Dave Panchyk)
Mon, 07 Apr 2003 00:10:39 +0000

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Re: Hand-moderated role-playing PBM?
dpanchyk@hotmail.com (Dave Panchyk)
Tue, 01 Apr 2003 23:07:55 +0000
Re: Hand-moderated role-playing PBM?
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Wed, 02 Apr 2003 10:43:19 +0000
Re: Hand-moderated role-playing PBM?
dpanchyk@hotmail.com (Dave Panchyk)
Mon, 07 Apr 2003 00:10:39 +0000