Re: Looking for a fantasy PBEM.

From: Karen J. Cravens <silver+news@phoenyx.net>

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 00:00:00 +0000

"MadCentral" madcentral@aol.com wrote in
<19990715203957.07114.00000941@ng-fp1.aol.com>:

>You might say that a computer
>mod RPG isn't an RPG because you aren't free to do whatever you
>like.  Yet you aren't in most tabletop RPGs either... you following a
>path designated by your GM as the ''plot''.  Even in really open and
>freestyle campaigns the GM will still being guiding you, albeit
>more subtlely.  You are more free to do what you want in most
>computer-mod PBM adventures than you are in many a ''linear''
>style RPG campaign module.

Only if you have what we in the business call "A Bad Gamemaster."

Suppose the players decide to do something the gamemaster has not
foreseen.  Unless the programmer is willing to tinker with the code, you
just flat can't do it in a computer game.  In a true RPG, the gamemaster
might have to say "Whoa, guys, it never occurred to me you'd do that/go
there.  Let me think about that."  And, unlike a computer program, he can
then come up with something creative.

References

Re: Looking for a fantasy PBEM.
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Looking for a fantasy PBEM.
"Steve Pritchard" <steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Looking for a fantasy PBEM.
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Looking for a fantasy PBEM.
"Steve Pritchard" <steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:00:00 +0000