New: Monsters! (free, closed-ended, email, computer, fantasy, rpg, sports) From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:13:00 +0000 Name: Monsters! Email: moderator@pbegames.com Frequency: two to three turns per week Type: Strategic Monster Battles URL: http://www.pbegames.com/monsters Costs: free Last-Update: 2001Jan13 Keywords: free, closed-ended, email, computer, fantasy, rpg, sports Description: In Monsters! up to 20 players attempt to take control of the game map using (you guessed it) monsters. Each player begins the game controlling a lair and several monsters. Using a simple set of orders (move, eat, spawn,grow), the player sends their monsters on their hostile way. Monsters always start fights if they are next to unfriendly monsters or have to share a territory with any monster (including others under their master's control). Each player can boost the effectiveness of selected monsters by playing powers on them. Monsters! games run twice per week and an average set of orders takes less than a half hour to write. Monsters! is a good introductory play by email game for a novice. [ 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