New: SpellMaster (free, open-ended, email, mixed, fantasy, rpg) From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl) Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 07:13:01 +0000 Name: SpellMaster Type: Fantasy, Free, RP URL: http://www.lemuria.org/SpellMaster Contact: omousey@yahoo.com Costs: free Last-Update: 2001Apr22 Keywords: free, open-ended, email, mixed, fantasy, rpg Description: SpellMaster is a free-form roleplaying game with an associated combat engine. You take the role of a spellcaster - a powerful magician whose kind has ruled the known world as long as anyone can remember. There are few who can oppose you, most of them other spellcasters. The game is one of roleplaying and intrigue. Diplomacy between spellcasters and spellcaster groups - called councils - is intense. But as united as the councils may appear to the outside, within every council everyone is also fighting for his own personal gains. SpellMaster is a very open game. Players can form or disband councils at will, and within the councils, all rules are set by votes. Conflict between spellcasters is being resolved in Certamen, a form of magical duel that is run using a special engine. Success in Certamen depends on the spellcasters personal power and knowledge, but both can be much more easily acquired with the help of other players - who of course want something in return. It should be clear by now that SpellMaster has a strong focus on playing simultaneously together and against each other. Intrigue is the main factor of the game, but by far not the only one... [ This is a new entry for the PBM List. You can find the list itself, and instructions for adding games or comments, at http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbm_list/ -- greg ] Up