For a long time, the ACCMAIL FAQ has had a entry for the PBeM Server (for info, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject help tutorial)
I always thought it was a rather obscure interest until I looked at the Open Directory category "Games: Online: Play-By-E-Mail" at http://dmoz.org/Games/Online/Play-By-E-Mail/ There are hundreds of games that can be played! They must be far more popular than I had ever imagined, and perhaps worth an expanded entry in the next FAQ. Her is teh English category description: "Play-by-mail gaming involves strategic or roleplaying games which are played via email or postal mail. Typcially each player will send his or her orders to the moderator, or GM, who will determine what happened in the game for the particular turn, and send updates to each player. Computer-moderated PBEM (play-by-email) gaming uses a computer program as the moderator instead of a human." There are more in French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian & Swedish. Most of the games I have never heard of. I don't even know what kind of games they are (except for Chess and Go). Does anyone know more about how these games are played? Does anyone actually do it? -- szs `at` szs `dot` net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To contribute to the discussion, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email to the *admin* address [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL as the message body. To get the latest version of the ACCMAIL FAQ, send a blank email to accmail.faq.en `AT` szs.net (replacing `AT` with @ to form a proper email address). ----------------------------------------------------------------------
