Re: What do you class as a PBM RPG?

From: silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)

Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:00:00 +0000

In article <35DB499D.171DADB9@the-isles.demon.co.uk>,
Plod <roy@the-isles.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Interested in what people consider to be an RPG PBM? I ask as those of
>you from the USA seem to class games such as Quest and Legends as RPG,
>whereas a number of GMs in the UK would almost violently disagree with
>that as they're predominantly Computer Mod and (surely) don't have the
>'flexibility' (??) to be able to allow a role to be played.
>Thoughts?

The term "roleplaying game" is way too generic.  It's used to
apply to CRPG's (Ultima, et al.), wargames in which the unit
level is an individual, and "real" roleplaying games.

Unfortunately, nobody's come up with a clever enough alternative
label to make everyone change.  Certainly not for lack of
trying... unfortunately, most of the attempts have been
pretentious jargonese.

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What do you class as a PBM RPG?
Plod <roy@the-isles.demon.co.uk>
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:00:00 +0000