Re: Historical Power Games PBM

From: jonmmorris@aol.comnospam (JonMMorris)

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

Terry Crook wrote:
>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.

Regarding the original question - I have heard of a long-running PbM game
called Renaissance wherein you assumed the role(s) of a family of characters
running around mid-millenium Europe.  I've never seen the rules but it could be
worth looking into.

Would someone with more info please add to this?

John

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Re: Historical Power Games PBM
"Terry Crook" <Terrence@crookpopoola.freeserve.co.uk>
Sat, 29 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000