05-06-2022, 02:07 AM
(05-05-2022, 02:13 PM)GrimFinger Wrote: Well, I manage to stumble across this, today. I guess that it wasn't lost, after all.
https://grimfinger.net/StarMaster.pdf
Great find, Charles!
My first play-by-mail game was Starmaster. The year was 1984 and I was 11 years old. I learned about this game from a cheap ad in the back of Dragon magazine. Play-by-mail, what a cool concept. I designed an empire (The Crystal Cryons, named after one of my cats) and excitedly waited for my first turn. On turn one, my home world was visited by a floating advertisement ("Ships R Us"?!) wanting to sell me powerful ships as a new empire, and that wrecked immersion right off the bat. Space was already commercialized before my young empire had the chance to get there. What was the point in continuing? I dropped out.
Raven Zachary in Portland, Oregon, USA. Currently playing: TribeNet, SuperNova, KnightGuild, Middle-earth, Takamo, and Wraith.