4 Jul
2007
4 Jul
'07
8:04 p.m.
--- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
These sound more like the old PBM strategy games
rather than a RPG.
I think you'd send in your move for the turn, as
would everyone else,
and then you'd get the results back. Something
along the lines of
"Master of Orion". The person I knew that was
playing in one didn't
have to fill out punch cards, but did have to fill
out a form. I've
no idea the state of such games, I suspect they're
all dead. How
many people are going to spend a few dollars per
turn, with what was
probably a couple week, at least, turn around. This
would actually
be an interesting area of study from both the gaming
standpoint, and
the classic computer standpoint. I'd love to see
some of the
software that was used to control these games,
however, I'd guess
that most were written by the person running the
game, and most of
the software has been lost.
This, although largely unrelated, reminds me of a
small game, the rulebook being a glorified pamphlet,
called En Garde. The backdrop was say 17th century
France, and although most of the rules had to do with
swordplay - and you had to announce your move/s at the
getgo (and the resultant combination determined the
outcome), there were aspects of social climbing. Not a
full fledged RPG, but a quaint little set of rules
nevertheless. If you were heavy into the history, it's
likely you could build onto it's framework.
No, sorry no computers were involved, or needed ;)
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