Re: PBM design: advice please

From: randygr@aol.com (RandyGr)

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000

>On a presentation note (I know I'm way off getting to the stage where
>I need to worry about it) but has anyone everyone done rules as in
>hole-punched format?  I'm sort of thinking that will be the format of
>the sourcebook so that players will be given new sheets when they
>research new items or whatnot and can add them to a folder of some
>description.

Well, there are (dis)advantages for both ways.
1] Bound, punched, etc.
A} There is never a question as to how everything will work for the players.
D} There is never a question as to how everything will work for the players.
(yes I know- it's the same thing).

2] New research/technology/blah-blah-blah.
There was a PBEM I played for a time called Monster Island (I think it's still
running) where you received blurbs (or something similar) telling you new
information. You found a new terrain type and figured out how to make a new
weapon using the materials from that terrain type. Or you found a city and
learned information, etc.
The point here is that this method could alleviate the fact that every player
will know every detail of every ship system/weapon/etc.
If the goal is to roll play a ship captain - then that captain should only know
what he has learned. And the game should restrict that captain from using
knowledge that the player has yet to learn.
Example: Captain Fred visits planet TP2. He **learns** here that a plasma
weapon fired on wide beam versus an Absorption shield will do more damage than
firing the plasma on a concentrated beam. Thus, when Fred gets in a combat
against that ship, he can use that tactic.

This would also restrict the min/max players because they would not **know** if
his/her opponent knows how to best defeat his/her weapons/shields.

Just a thought.
Randy.

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Re: PBM design: advice please
"[Tariz] The Dungeon Master" <adnd@mailandnews.com>
Wed, 09 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: PBM design: advice please
"[Tariz] The Dungeon Master" <adnd@mailandnews.com>
Wed, 09 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000