Re: Non Master Server games...

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000

>>Was wondering what people prefer here - A good game of Total Annihilation
with total strangers over an email connection or something long,drawn-out
and bloody a la PBM Email - Must admit on the wargame side I prefer the
realtime game rather than the PBEM - and would this equate to RPGs as well
in both genres?<<

Well, if we put E-Mail aside here for a minute (I prefer to play by post) and
pit PBM against tabletop, which I think was your question....

I'd have to say I like both and do both and get a completely different
pleasure out of each.

Every year when we have our pubmeet all the guys and girls come along and play
RPGs and Boardgames and Wargames and even a little LRPG.
Then they all chat about their PBMs and drink a lot.  Then they go home and
carry on playing their PBMs.

The difference between PBM (E-Mail, Mail... any type) and computer/board/card
game (even interactive multi-player ones) is both subtle and obvious to anybody
who enjoys both.  I love my computer games and my board games... but do they
stop me playing PBM... hell no!  How could they!  It would be like stopping
lifting weights because I was playing Rugby on a Sunday.  Madness.  (Even
though, agreed, I specialise in Madness.)

Steve Tierney
-Madhouse UK

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Re: Non Master Server games...
"Roy" <roy@the-isles.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000