03-24-2011, 05:20 PM
(03-24-2011, 01:00 AM)4am Wrote:(03-23-2011, 07:39 PM)ixnay Wrote: Toppers - I just checked out the site, and am interested in signing up. You say it's free, but it looks like it's based on a table top game? Do I have that right? Would I need to buy the game in order to participate? Or does only the GM need that? How do I register to join the upcoming game?
you will probably need copy of En Garde! but the house rules cover most things about the game, but things like how to duel are not covered in detail. It is based on a old table top rpg but suits PBeM better. Briny is just starting up i think that you will need to join both the Briny En Garde forum and the Briny yahoo Group or ask on the forum on how to start. Yup it is free.
how it plays you have you turn is broken down into 4 weekly orders (courting, training ) + orders that don't take anytime (e.g. buying, dueling)
the GM will then follow the orders and you get a email back telling you how your turn went. say that if you went to a club in week1 and a member of rival ship was there at the same time then you may have insulted each other and have to fight a duel next turn.
The GM will also take everything that happen that turn and write it into the form of a news paper. So that all the players can see what the other players were doing.
At the hart of of it, its a pretty simple game. But all the politicking as you rise up into high society. asking favors, giving favors, climbing over people, risk your life on the battlefield, slandering your enemy's in the paper and and so on. its this that brings in the rp.
Cheers for that and you are right about it our house rules will be out shortly, its just a modified version of the original rules. our version is a naval version and set in England usually they are set in Paris and use french army units ours use warships....