Re: Spellbinder Games - best avoided!

From: "Steve Pritchard" <steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000

MadCentral wrote in message
<19981127130347.19786.00001463@ng-cb1.aol.com>...
>I've heard a lot of people slam Spellbinder over the years,

...not as many as I have <g>

>.....but they have a lot
>of players and its impossible to please everybody all of the time.  All
PBM
>firms upset a few people and sometimes those few people become a vocal
>minority.  I know that it's been that way with us sometimes.  I respect
that
>some players who's opinions I trust have had misgivings, but in all my
own
>discussions with Spellbinder (admittedly not that many) I've found them
to be
>very pleasant.

Thanks Steve. However, let me point out a few problems with your game
"Dungeon". i know I have never played it but I have come up with ways to
improve it. <g>

>While the language (if it realy was said) is a little rude, he does have
a
>point.  I would agree that play-by-email simply means playing a game by
>E-Mail... front ends etc are pretty tag ons, but the game you describe
>certainly *is* still a play by Email game.  because... you play it by
E-Mail.
>Duh! <grin>

It was rude. It was also born out of great frustration and long-term
patience worn paper thin.

>Well, this seems pretty over the top, but then to make a GM so angry I
wonder
>what you'd said to him in the past and what other letters, which you
don't
>print, form a history here.  I like to see both sides of a story before
making
>judgment.  So far all we've seen is yours, and Im just not convinced this
is
>the whole picture.

You don't *really* want to see all that went before this. My previous
posts give you some idea though.

References

Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
ggshaw11@aol.com (GGShaw11)
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
ggshaw11@aol.com (GGShaw11)
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000