From: Roger Burton West <roger@f...>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 97 18:10:22 GMT
Subject: FT PBEM (was: Anti-missile defenses in FT)
On Tue, 02 Dec 1997, Beep?? Whaddya mean, 'beep'? I don't speak 'beep'! wrote: > Try a little PBEM? Are there rules for PBEM available? I'd have thought it would be a bit slow... also, are there any rules for non-refereed PBEM games? Curiously,
From: Indy Kochte <kochte@s...>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 15:11:33 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: FT PBEM (was: Anti-missile defenses in FT)
> Try a little PBEM? Well, yeah, PBeM is a bit slower than RL playing... There aren't any specific 'rules' for PBeM that I am aware of. There are formats in how GMs run things. Otherwise it's essentially the same as RL playing: you give your ship(s) their movement orders and fire orders (these can be as complex as you want - but remember who has to interpret them!) and submit them to the GM by a certain deadline. Your friendly neighborhood GM then moves your ships (and those of your opponent(s)), resolves any combat situations that come up and meet your fire orders, fills out a 'detection report' to let you know the status of your ship(s) and the results of that turn's combat (if any). Generally I try and give a 1 week turnaround time for this. So a 10-turn game will likely last 10 weeks. Yeah, slow, but still works. The 1 week turnaround time allows for other RL interference to be dealt with (I have always encouraged my players to submit orders in early if at all possible, and for the most part they do do so). You can probably tweak that depending on the time availability of the players involved (but always be aware the outside RL influence will disrupt this; it's happened in every game I've ever been a GM or played in). For what it's worth. I don't know of any non-refereed PBeM rules, but if you have an honorable opponent, you could prolly work something out (though tricky to check this over email; email isn't as instantaneous as we'd like) Mk
From: Jon Davis <davisje@n...>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 17:46:40 -0500
Subject: Re: FT PBEM (was: Anti-missile defenses in FT)
> Are there rules for PBEM available? I'd have thought it would be a bit Weekly turns is about the pace that any GM would want to run a game. It can go quicker if you have good tools and a simpler game. Re: a non-refereed game. There is an e-mail dice-server. I can look for the address again, but it is getting wide use for E-mail FRP games and other PBeM wargames. Sending orders may be a bit difficult for simultaneous movement. The dice server sends random die rolls to one or more e-mail addresses with your own added comments.