Re: [pbem] - New PBEM - Lawgivers

From: "Roy Pollard" <plod@ntlworld.com>

Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 21:04:11 +0000

So after having played a massive two failed games you've decided to put a
downer on a perfectly unrelated game? Fair? Nope.

"Frank J. Perricone" <hawthorn@mail.com> wrote in message
news:vtn64t42n8fpgai5khsc0pb4ibe3f0c1dk@4ax.com...
> On 21 Dec 2000 23:45:55 GMT, cgoodin@sfu.ca (Charles Frederick Goodin)
> wrote:
>
> > >> Lawgivers is a mailing-list PBEM which is fast-moving - you should be
able
> > >> to reply ideally at least three or four times a week. Applicants
should be
> > >> fairly competent writers and should understand that this is NOT just
a
> > >> gore-fest - there will be emphasis on role-playing and thinking as
well as
> > >> gunplay!
> > >
> > >The more important question is, how long has it been running, and what
> > >excuse does the GM have planned to bring the campaign to a slow,
drawn-out,
> > >painful end immediately after people join up?
> >
> > Hmm...that rings of the bitterness of recent personal experience.
>
> For suitably broad values of "recent", sure.  In the last few years I've
> been involved with exactly two PBEMs that lasted long enough to have been
> worth doing.  Both were games I ran.  If I hadn't done it, I don't know if
> I'd believe it could be done, given the results I've had.  Is anyone else
> doing any better?
>
> --
> * Frank J. Perricone * hawthorn@sover.net * http://www.sover.net/~hawthorn
>             Prism: http://www.sover.net/~hawthorn/Prism/
> Just because we aren't all the same doesn't mean we have nothing in common
>  Just because we have something in common doesn't mean we're all the same
>
>

References

Re: [pbem] - New PBEM - Lawgivers
Frank J. Perricone <hawthorn@mail.com>
Fri, 22 Dec 2000 14:07:48 +0000
[pbem] - New PBEM - Lawgivers
"Michael Ball" <ballmy@lineone.net>
Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:11:45 +0000
Re: [pbem] - New PBEM - Lawgivers
Frank J. Perricone <hawthorn@mail.com>
Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:25:54 +0000
Re: [pbem] - New PBEM - Lawgivers
cgoodin@sfu.ca (Charles Frederick Goodin)
Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:45:55 +0000

Referenced By

Re: [pbem] - New PBEM - Lawgivers
Frank J. Perricone <hawthorn@mail.com>
Fri, 22 Dec 2000 14:07:48 +0000
[pbem] - New PBEM - Lawgivers
"Michael Ball" <ballmy@lineone.net>
Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:11:45 +0000
Re: [pbem] - New PBEM - Lawgivers
Frank J. Perricone <hawthorn@mail.com>
Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:25:54 +0000
Re: [pbem] - New PBEM - Lawgivers
cgoodin@sfu.ca (Charles Frederick Goodin)
Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:45:55 +0000