Re: PBM + LIGGING = COMPATIBLE?

From: johnlee@hinterland.fesnet.co.uk (John Lee)

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:45:29 -0000, "Ian Smith"
<smith@thefedsSPAMGUARD.co.uk> wrote:

>Just about on Topic.
>
>THE BRIEF - Bear with me
>I've just joined a PBM game, and the first thing I got from them was an
>invite to a Games Day involving networked PCs, a big face to face game based
>on the RPG and a piss-up in the evening with fireworks ('explosives' in
>their words), non-legal hallucinogenics (if required) and a big fight to end
>it all ...
>
>THE QUESTION
>Is this normal?
>I'm new to PBM but I've always had the impression of people sitting around
>with their bits of paper, never communicating with (never mind
>drinking-with) the players they're trying to crush into the ground.
>
>Have I found a game filled with all the extroverts missing from other games,
>or is every PBM player a closet anarchist?
>
>In fact - Can someone nominate they're candidate for the nuttiest / most
>weirdo / maddest player? I need to know who to aspire to.
>
>Ian Smith
>
>
I've got a good idea about what you're talking about there -

I think that PBM attracts introverts because they've been attracted to
games when they were younger and perhaps less (hmm..) secure (not sure
I mean insecure people..I mean the kids who spend their childhood
happy being alone) - Its mainly a male thing, but I was always lucky
to play PBMs in groups of friends who liked the same stuff.
When I look at the people I play with now - most of them strangers who
are often just names on paper or a VDU - I can see the potential for a
little of swigging and falling-over. The main problem is the
remoteness - Players of games are inherently good people - Most of
them start off quiet and get louder with every sausage role and bevvy
they pour in.

If you're talking about the gig I'm thinking you're talking about
you'd better take plenty of Andrews and Lucozade. People almost died
at the last one :-)

**For nuttiest player I nominate a guy called David Brown aka Synth ;
The only PBM player who records his belches in wav files and emails
them to his characters mortal enemys.**
John Lee
"The devils in the Dreaming
He tells you I'm not sleeping in my hotel room alone
With nothing to believe in
You dive into the traffic rising up
And its so quiet
You're surprised
And then you wake."

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PBM + LIGGING = COMPATIBLE?
"Ian Smith" <smith@thefedsSPAMGUARD.co.uk>
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000