Re: Not Wargame or RPG Pbems

From: beduewer@unity.ncsu.edu (Bruce Eliot Duewer)

Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0000

In article <MPG.10ff5685e855c92d9896b2@news.erols.com>,
Stephen Glenn <pe4ce@erols.com> wrote:
>Unfortunately, the only kinds of games I'm seeing on this newsgroup are either
>heavy wargames or RPGs (that's not so much a complaint as an observation). I am
>mostly interested in the beer-and-pretzels type of game (some would say German-
>type games) -- some examples would be Lowenherz, El Grande, Settlers of Catan,
>Formula De, etc.

>Is there any interest in this kind of thing?

Well, the two types of PBEM I usually play are Diplomacy and 18xx related
games, including my own game which uses some concepts from both
(one ongoing game http://www4.ncsu.edu/eos/users/b/beduewer/www/barons.html)

But I could enjoy some El Grande as well if someone was willing to
do the GM work. Settlers and Formula De, while OK I don't are the
sorts of things I could maintain interest in long enough for a PBEM
version, since they play so quickly FTF.

Lowenherz I haven't gotten a chance to try yet, so should probably play
FTF first.

I am glad someone has brought up this category of games though, and
would be interested to see others comments on which games would adapt
well to PBEM.

Bruce

References

Not Wargame or RPG Pbems
pe4ce@erols.com (Stephen Glenn)
Thu, 07 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0000