recommend me a PBM game

[ixnay]

Enough reading and reminiscing. I want to play some PBM games.

Please recommend your favorites! I trend toward empire-building, but am open to other experiences as well.

I am thinking I'll play one free game and one professional game and post my turns on a thread here, just for fun...

[Toppers]

Empire building preofessional try The Glory of Kings.....

forum discussion: http://agema.darkbb.com/f2-the-glory-of-kings
Wkipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glory_of_Kings
Wiki: http://lgdr.wikia.com/wiki/The_Glory_of_Kings_Wiki (this covers all the games and has some newspapers and in game stuff as well as some rules etc to look at)

[Ramblurr]

The game of Far Horizons I started recently might have a player drop in the second turn. If you don't mind taking over a turn that is two turns behind, then you can jump in right away.

Far Horizons is probably right up your ally, it is sci-fi themed "empire" builder with some roleplaying elements. The official one sentence summary is:
"Far Horizons is a strategic role-playing play-by-email (PBEM) game of galactic exploration, trade, diplomacy, and conquest."

This first game (titled "Galaxy Alpha") is your standard text-based PBEM. The orders and turns generated by players will help me develop the GUI client for future games.

[ixnay]

Ramblurr, I just read through the FH sub-forum, and would definitely like to pick up that open/drop-out position, if it's still available. Should I work through your site to register?

[Ramblurr]

Ramblurr, I just read through the FH sub-forum, and would definitely like to pick up that open/drop-out position, if it's still available. Should I work through your site to register?

Send me an email with the email address you want to use for the game: farhorizons at binaryelysium dot com

Turn 3 just went out this morning, so I'll send it to you right away.

[GrimFinger]

For a pay game, I would suggest that you consider trying Hyborian War (for its character system), Middle-earth PBM (for its character system), Cruenti Dei (so that we can get more details about that game with its tasty map), or Agema's Scramble for Empire (so that we can see some actual details about that game).

As a general rule, though, I disfavor games where you have to pay for the rules. That's been the case for years, where my view on such matters is concerned. However, for what you pay for turn results, games other than Hyborian War and Middle-earth PBM will likely allow you more turns for your dollar.

Or, just shop around on your own, and find one. Just keep us informed, Ixnay.

[Toppers]

Just out of interest we may be adding the rules for TGOK to our wiki page shortly....

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you could try En Garde! nice and simple game. where you can get some good rpg done. it is many about fighting duels and social climbing. there are some good ones listed on here and also at http://www.engarde.co.uk/

Briny en Garde is about to start in the next 2 weeks oe even less so you could get in at the beginning with all the other new characters, its free and by email....

[GrimFinger]

Briny en Garde is about to start in the next 2 weeks oe even less so you could get in at the beginning with all the other new characters, its free and by email....

It would be more tempting, if the forums were not so hard on the eyes, just trying to read what was posted.

[ixnay]

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?

Grim - after reading all you've written about Hyborian War, I'd like to sign up for that. Is there a preferred site for registering? Or a preferred player-run "shard"?

I will be posting my misadventures here in all these games, to maximize my enjoyment.

[GrimFinger]

Grim - after reading all you've written about Hyborian War, I'd like to sign up for that. Is there a preferred site for registering? Or a preferred player-run "shard"?

The fastest way to start a new game of Hyborian war from scratch is to join an organized game. Try this link on The Road of Kings website, to see which organized games are forming, presently.

If you want lots of action, then a kingdom in the northwest corner of the map will help you to maximize your chances for war, early on. All 36 player kingdom set-up reports are available for download for free on this page of my other site. If you want all 36 of them in one easy to download zipped file, then just click here.