Re: Historical Power Games PBM

From: "Terry Crook" <Terrence@crookpopoola.freeserve.co.uk>

Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Well I certainly opened a can of worms here!

What I was after was a game , like LGDR, that covers a historical period.
Where you can use real life situations from the past and perhaps adapt them
to your own means to achieve your goals in the game.  The *power* comes in
many forms. Through political, war, economic and diplomacy means.  LGDR uses
all of these and more, there is a role-playing aspect to this game as well,
which you can use to create dynasties through marriage.  There is a league
table which charts your *power* by a score of honour, basically I am sad git
who likes to see his name in lights on the leader board.  As some one said,
there has been movement away from the original question, alot of which was
nothing to do with the original question.

Terry Crook

Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:VA.00000ce2.0027e27f@superk...
> Greg Lindahl wrote:
>
> >>Carol said it first, not me.
>
> Hey, I didn't say 'That makes a hell of a lot of sense.'
>
> All you had to do was ask Steve what he sees as the difference between
> an empire-building and a power- game. You might not agree with him
> about the distinction, of course, but at least you'd know why.
>
> I think that wide definitions embracing as many games as possible are
> fine for newcomers to the hobby, and that it's good for us all to feel
> part of a big range of possibilities. However, for experienced players
> (like the guy who asked the original question) we need some reasonably
> clear distinctions.
>
> Sigh - Carol
>
>
>

References

Re: Historical Power Games PBM
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Historical Power Games PBM
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Wed, 26 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Historical Power Games PBM
Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Thu, 27 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Historical Power Games PBM
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Historical Power Games PBM
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Wed, 26 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Historical Power Games PBM
Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Thu, 27 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000