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RE: PBM Boneyard - Greybeard - 01-19-2012
The sub-creating in this game was fun. Role-playing my abbott was helped by historical fiction of the sort that Ellis Peters wrote, as in her series on Brother Cadfael, or, using her name Edith Pargeter the 4-volume Brothers of Gwynedd (the role call of titles of Llwellyn ending with "the first and only true Prince of Wales") and the Heaven Tree Trilogy. Her ability to bring history alive was amazing.
Combined with some fairly general church history, the Abbott drew on the news and knowledge of travellers who stayed the night in the guest quarters, including the mendicant friars to learn of the latest church building techniques and to hire a French glazier. The result was something like the Great East Window in Exeter Cathedral, on which I based the Abbey's equivalent.
The main elements of sub-creating I've used were to be able to imagine and write about the environment - landscape, flora and fauna, buildings, and to create a number of interesting characters. In an abbey these would often be the other brothers including those with ambitions to rise in the abbey at the expense of competitors, lay members, travellers, local aristocrats who might potentially leave endowments, alms for the destitute, almshouses for the homeless, orchards, etc. History based games needn't exclude fantasy, either.
The beauty of this is that each player can develop different aspects to sub-create, its a very individual thing. Its also less likely in games that power-struggles are more important than role playing. So it is probably very much a small minority interest in PBM.
RE: PBM Boneyard - GrimFinger - 01-19-2012
(01-19-2012, 01:50 AM)tstone Wrote: Man, such adventures and memories there, played so many of them.
Oh, Harlequin is still around, y'a'll, just to let you know...
The list from the PBM Boneyard transitioned into the PBM Wiki.
RE: PBM Boneyard - Valetemoria - 04-23-2012
Strange to see KJC Games on the Boneyard list, since they are still very much alive and kicking - Warlord game 52 is about to start and most of the rest on the list are still running?. see www.kjcgames.com
Also War of Wizards is around, and having been beta testing for a few years, they are working on the relaunch.
Just thought I would throw this in.
RE: PBM Boneyard - GrimFinger - 04-24-2012
(04-23-2012, 10:49 PM)Valetemoria Wrote: Strange to see KJC Games on the Boneyard list, since they are still very much alive and kicking - Warlord game 52 is about to start and most of the rest on the list are still running?. see www.kjcgames.com
Also War of Wizards is around, and having been beta testing for a few years, they are working on the relaunch.
Just thought I would throw this in.
As I posted in the first posting in the Boneyard thread: "This will be an attempt to list Play-By-Mail games that have existed over the years, some of which are still up and running, today, and many others which have, unfortunately, fallen defunct with the passage of time."
New additions are made to the PBM Wiki, and not to the Boneyard list, which the PBM Wiki replaced.
RE: PBM Boneyard - Harlequin - 09-11-2013
Vengeance Games, used to run:
Where Lies The Power I own this game now
Corporate Wars I own this game now
Orions Finger and
World of Vengance
Dean
RE: PBM Boneyard - GrimFinger - 09-11-2013
(09-11-2013, 12:40 PM)Harlequin Wrote: Vengeance Games, used to run:
Where Lies The Power I own this game now
Corporate Wars I own this game now
Orions Finger and
World of Vengance
Dean
I added an entry for Vengeance Games to the PBM Wiki.
The games that you own, Dean, do you run them, currently? If so, under what company name?
RE: PBM Boneyard - Takamo Universe - 10-15-2013
Years of work...but some of us won't stay down. www.takamouniverse.com
RE: PBM Boneyard - Tregonsee - 04-09-2014
Takamo is back up, as a free pbem. Link elsewhere
RE: PBM Boneyard - P5-133XL - 06-11-2014
It would be useful to have dates of operation attached to the boneyard games
RE: PBM Boneyard - GrimFinger - 06-11-2014
I agree, that would be useful. Except, no one has provided those dates to me.
Besides, I don't add to the Boneyard, anymore, since all of the info in it has long since been transferred to the PBM Wiki.