Re: [pbem] - New PBEM - Lawgivers

From: ed <edhogg@equus.demon.co.uk>

Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 21:38:10 +0000

The noble Frank J. Perricone <hawthorn@mail.com> spake on the day of
Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:07:48 -0500:

>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?

I've been playing in a PBeM that's been going for 4 years and I've been
running one for 3 years

References

Re: [pbem] - New PBEM - Lawgivers
cgoodin@sfu.ca (Charles Frederick Goodin)
Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:45:55 +0000
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