New: Ill Met in Lankhmar (free, closed-ended, email, www, human, fantasy, rpg)

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 20:13:18 +0000

Name:		Ill Met in Lankhmar
URL:		http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lankhmar_pbem/
Frequency:		twice per week
Email:		spiro51@hotmail.com
Type:		urban fantasy
Last-Update:		2002Mar10
Keywords: free, closed-ended, email, www, human, fantasy, rpg

Description:

Our play-by-e-mail game is set in Fritz Leiber's classic fantasy city,
Lankhmar: the city of Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser, a city of warring guilds,
gangs, black markets and thievery.  The events of the game take place
during a single night in the Tenderloin District.

Rules/Info: Chaosium's "Elric!" rules are the basis, but simplification
and the beyond-the-grave-influence of first edition AD&D make it something
of a hybrid, but very rules-lite.  You don't need any sourcebooks.  It's
an urban, low-fantasy, approaching-zero-magic game with an emphasis on
logic, conspiracy, and deadly streetfighting.  The urban skill-list ranges
from "Mark Cards" to "Animals Like Me" to "Navigate Rooftops".

All PCs are rogues and criminals of one stripe or another, but the game
has stabilized to the point where all PCs are established: you either
replace a player in an active PC's shoes or fill a role that's already
woven into the complicated events of the plot but needs a person to make
it go!

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