Re: Nature of the group

From: mwilliams <mwilliams@signal.dera.gov.uk>

Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

In article <20000406063148.27888.00000004@ng-fa1.aol.com>,
  madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral) wrote:
> >>So where are all the PbM players and why don't they post here like the
> boardgamers do in r.g.b.  I know some of you frequent both groups - anyone care
> to comment?<<
>
> Players often spend a lot of their time on lists devoted the the games they
> play.  A general site like this could attract them if it were promoted by the
> GMs and if they knew their GMs would be here, but most of us don't promote this
> site because we don't want to subject our players to the sort of trolls which
> frequent the area.
>
> The DungeonWorld discussion list has more messages in half an hour than this
> list gets in a week, quite often.  Those players could be attracted here, but
> they enjoy the list they are on, and I couldn't be sure they would enjoy it
> here, so I dont encourage them to come here.

I agree entirely with this analysis. The Saturnalia multi, with a mere 43
subscribers, generated 356 messages last month. This list has been busy over the
last week or so but normally wouldn't approach those levels.

Still - I enjoy this NG. :)

Mark
--
Saturnalia - Swords & Sorcery PBM, running since 1984!

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/5676/sat.html

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Nature of the group
jonmmorris@aol.comnospam (JonMMorris)
Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

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Nature of the group
jonmmorris@aol.comnospam (JonMMorris)
Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000