Episodic Strategy Games or "PBM"?

[Harlequin]

Nicky Palmer and I have been playing a bunch of games of "Through the Ages" on BoardGameGeeks.com. Free. Always new opponents. Turn-based. I don't think of it as a play-by-mail game. I don't think of it as anything, really. If it needs a label, I suppose Steve Tierney's "turn-based gaming" works well enough. But what brings me back is the decent game play and the big player base. Thirty years ago, I'd have had to pay for that. Now I don't. Why would I go back, no matter what you call it?

Hi Bob,

As a GM of Legends I would answer that and say that our product gives you a level of depth and complexity that you will never get from a board game whether played face to face, or turn based on a website.

In that sense it is a product that is NOT replicated elswhere.

http://www.harlequingames.com/index.html

Harlequin