[PnP] Players Wanted - Possibly for the last time?

[Scott Adams]

County Mordra or Mordara? one ofthose a/r 
things.  I only ran it once in '83. :)
Never run same thing twice.

I DO appreciate the words.  It is time consuming 
and hard work.  Players sit back and may only 
spend 20 min twice a week  reading depending how 
fast you read.  But me?  Hours.  A simple 2 phase 
combat takes 6 hours (1 ph=3 hours initially due 
to the amount of things on map.  Then another 3-6 
hours for tha tupdate depending.  A typical 
update of 300-500 lines with no combat may only 
need 3-4 hours  And this is twice a week and 
other times for book keeping (spells, etc).

I do miss free time but its fun.  I do it it for 
myself.  Sure I wish I did other stuff.  But I 
love it..the plots..the characters..and in this 
case 16 years covers 3.5 years  of game time.  So its nice to see folks grow.

I started way back early '80s on my BBS.  The 
biggest game i had was Gamma World with 17 active 
players.  I mean active not 1 liner every 3 week 
active. :)  But not as complex as pnp so it was fun.

Recently I added 2 new players in the last couple 
weeks with a 3rd soon.  So the game is always open...
We have one player stepping back due to his busy 
life.  That's fine too.  A pbem is set so well 
that one can be awol for a short whle and come back.

To me being active might only mean a post every 
other week.  I know how life gets.

But you and EVERYONE can jioin the game list.  IF 
you want to just watch it in action. Then see how 
activity goes and decide later.
If anyone does..

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or just lurk on the archives or my game site.

Lurkers welcome.

But thanks for your words. I hope to live for the 20th year in 2019 :)







At 12:03 PM 11/6/2016, you wrote:
>Hi Scott!
>
>I've been lurking for years here on the faint 
>hope that I'll be able to join one of your (or 
>somebody else's) PBM game at some point.
>
>Sadly I've come to the realisation that I can't.  I just don't have the time.
>
>Having said that, I wanted to take a moment to 
>compliment you on your years of service that the 
>truly huge amount of work it takes to manage a 
>game - and an email game is MUCH more work than 
>a face-to-face one.  Kudos to you!
>
>Please don't take the lack of obvious responses 
>to be any kind of negative statement.  I would 
>be there in a flash if I knew that I wouldn't 
>end up constantly asking for extensions or being unresponsive.
>
>Along those lines, if I ever get a minute, I'm 
>going to liquidate all by P&P materials.  I've 
>got a whack of stuff.  If anybody is 
>immediately interested, just let me know and 
>we'll figure something out.  I have to 
>inventory it yet, but it includes at least 2 
>full copies of the game, the Perilous Lands 
>expansion, an adventure expansion (can't 
>remember the name) and something else that 
>eludes me right now (I'm at the airport and I 
>haven't done the inventory thing yet).
>
>Keep up the good work. Â Â
>
>Regards all,
>
>CurtisÂ
>
>On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Scott Adams 
><<mailto:longshotgm at comcast.net>longshotgm at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>Â  Hello folks,
>
>  Many of you know me.  I've been a active member here since early
>  '90s.  I contributed a great deal in version 2 of the rules.
>
>  I started my P&P PBEM (Play by Email) game back in 1999.  At
>  this point in Adventure #7 we are 75% done.  Sometime next
>  year we'll be done.  Ready to start Adventure #8.
>
>  As always I have welcomed new players all the time.  But I am
>  doing another Official Players Wanted post.  But this next
>  adventure could be potentially the LAST P&P for me.  This one
>  will probably last till 2019.  This means TWENTY years for this
>  PBEM.  They say retire at the top.  So I may end after the next
>  adventure. But I may not.  I do love this game.  But after 20
>  years who knows.  :)
>
>Â  A little background:
>
>    I started PBEMs going back to 1983.  They evolved into my BBS
>  (Bulletin Board System).  During the height of this period I
>Â  had at one point 17 Active players in Gamma World (another game
>  I run).  I've done others as well.  But this tells you the experience
>Â  I have covering almost 35 years.
>
>    As I said above this current P&P started in 1999.  Since then I
>  still have 2 players from that start.  The game itself has only
>  stalled twice.  Once one summer when a player who liked to argue
>Â  over rules bogged down things till he died mysteriously (it was
>  not ME! I don't kill folks like that).  The other time was a couple
>  months when my dad died.  So that shows you this is a constant
>  on going game.  Most fail in the first 6 months.
>
>Â  Methods:
>
>    * The majority of game play is done by e-mail.  If you get email
>  you can play.  No need to login to sites.  Email goes to you via
>Â  a Mailing List thanks to Wout.
>
>Â  Â  * Two websites are resources: Wout's the main P&P site and my
>  game site.  My site keeps copies of all posts and updates.  I also
>Â  have links for maps, pictures and other resources like experience
>  charts and such one can view as needed.  No login needed just
>Â  access the site.
>
>    * V2 of rules with Perilous Lands  Party HQ land is Marentia.
>
>Â  Roster:
>
>    I normally don't post a roster in these ads.  But since this
>  could be the last time.  Why not.
>
>      Player  Person    Race        Class/type
>      Arawn   John     Elf       Druid/Priest/Alfar
>      Fremea  Tobie    Faerry    Sidh MU/Archer/Herbalist/Warrior
>      Kell    Mark     Half-Elf  Merchant Trader/Wizard
>      Kiet    David    Human     Acrobat/Wizard
>      Unali   Wout     Human     Dagger Maiden Warrior
>      Pyan    Panthera Human     Hunter
>      Z'leyra Alex     Human     Shaman/Healer/Wizard
>      Dorhak  Kevin    Dwarf     Warrior
>      ?       ?        ?         ?
>      ?       ?        ?         ?
>
>     Pyan and Dorhak are newest folks.  I have 2 others working
>     on characters as well.  So while it looks like a large party
>Â  Â  Â of 8-10 folks I tailor things so even that's not enough. :)
>Â  Â  Â Like I said I've had 17 active in one game and it worked
>Â  Â  Â out so well folks still talk about it.
>
>     So see something that interests you?  I can accept all types.
>     Normal and Half Breeds.  We've had 2 half breeds and a 3rd
>     will be joining.  I prefer not to have Natural Magicians but
>Â  Â  Â anything else is fine.
>
>Â  What does it take to play:
>
>Â  Â  * Browser/Email client
>
>    * Time: For you 20-40 minutes a week.  I do 2 updates a week.
>  on average 300-500 lines.  If you read fast great.  So this
>  is a estimated time 20-40.  For me as GM it takes 8-16 hours
>  a week to work on the game.  Combat updates take 3 hours per
>Â  phase at times.
>
>    So can you spare 20-40 for maybe 2-3 years?  Join up.  It might
>Â  be the last chance.
>
>Â  Â  If questions email me:
>Â  Â  Â <mailto:pnpgm at comcast.net>pnpgm at comcast.net
>
>Â  Â  Game Website:
>Â  Â  Â  Has links on how to join, FAQs and other things.
>
>
>  Thanks for listening.  Now back to the mailing list...
>
>Â  PS. My Site has info on what a PBEM is if not sure.
>
>
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