Game I'd like to play....

[Braaainz]

So, I just started playing Diplomacy recently and totally fell into a love/hate relationship with the game.

I've never played a PBM game. I remember seeing ads for them back in the day, but didn't know anything else about them.

Fast forward to today. I am a fickle luddite. I embrace technology a lot of the time, but I also have a collection of vintage/antique manual typewriters that I bang on frequently.

I would love a true PBM, where players communicate with one another only by snailmail letters. Maybe have turn results online, but all player to player communications via mail. It would give me an excuse to use those typewriters more and also give me something to look forward to when I check the mailbox.

For what it is worth, there are a lot of typewriter collectors out there that I think would embrace a similar style of game.

It'd be nice to have something like Diplomacy (simple to get feet wet, needing lots of correspondence). If I am trying to talk other typewriter enthusiasts into it though, I think a game that is slightly less cuthroat/backstabbing would be more appreciated.

Any ideas?

[Nebless]

There's an English company that still does PBM games and I'm sure there's others too.  Just harder to find.

[Greybeard]

There's an English company that still does PBM games and I'm sure there's others too.  Just harder to find.

One that I really miss is Midgard UK. A great world with many cities and regions. Remember MerkVerk and Society of Arms? The best GM was Stephen who moved to Canada. We had hopes when Medieval Inspirations took it over, Andy and Ali. Had their own website for a while, but then no more was heard of them. A yahoo group started too, and as recently as last year there were several posts, mostly nostalgic gamers. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Medi...s_Midgard/.

[Davin]

I would love a true PBM, where players communicate with one another only by snailmail letters. Maybe have turn results online, but all player to player communications via mail.  It would give me an excuse to use those typewriters more and also give me something to look forward to when I check the mailbox.

Well, Galac-Tac is at its heart still a classic PBM game - printed turn and input sheets and all.  For those people (such as military at remote stations) that can get snail mail but have limited to no Internet access, we can still provide an extra-cost service to print turns and/or type in orders and run it the same ol' way that we did back in the '80s -- if you REALLY want that paper in your hand.

[Toppers]

Agema do paper and email games, look up the website http://www.agema.org.uk/ and the forum http://agema.darkbb.com/ for more details the guys on the forum are a very obliging lot and can send you some news papers and turn reports to look at....