----- Original Message -----
From: "paulobrien" <paulobrien@...>
To: <madhouse-necromancer@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [madhouse-necromancer] NPC Forces ??


>
> Hi Mat,
>
> My small forces are showing on the map with the Enemy forces icon - is
> this
> what you have too?
>
> There don't seem to be any NPC forces on the map at the moment - I can't
> remember if there used to be in the old version of the game.
>
> Paul


No, I'm seeing a group of 55 Skeletons,  that don't belong to me,  and are
not close enough to a Necropolis to belong to a player at this stage of the
game,  (I'm assuming that all player owned forces would be at most 2 squares
from a Necropolis on turn 2)

Mat

Hi Mat,

My small forces are showing on the map with the Enemy forces icon - is this
what you have too?

There don't seem to be any NPC forces on the map at the moment - I can't
remember if there used to be in the old version of the game.

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "matandclaire" <mat@...>
To: <madhouse-necromancer@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 1:51 AM
Subject: [madhouse-necromancer] NPC Forces ??


> Probably a dumb newbie question,  but,   my scan results are showing
> some forces that don't belong to me,  and are far more than 2 squares
> away from and of the player starting positions.
>
> Are there NPC bands of Zombies / Skeletons / Vampires wandering
> around?  or am I missing something rather basic <G>
>
> TIA
>
> Mat
>
> P.S.  Noxious Morbitium,  Would be nice if you could get in touch
> privately!
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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>

Firstly we seem to have missed a turn and jumped from turn 1 to turn
3?  a coding error steve or maybe just due to you running the turn
more than once after the bugs you mentioned in your last mail.

Also,  the rulebook in the map section says that the owner numbers on
the map  will not be visible untill turn 3 to avoid giving away the
necropolis locations,  those numbers were visible on my turn 1 map.

Lastly,  it seems a little pointless to only show the terrain that has
been currently explored when we saw the entire map on turn 1 - were we
supposed to see everything on turn 1 ????

Mat

Probably a dumb newbie question,  but,   my scan results are showing
some forces that don't belong to me,  and are far more than 2 squares
away from and of the player starting positions.

Are there NPC bands of Zombies / Skeletons / Vampires wandering
around?  or am I missing something rather basic <G>

TIA

Mat

P.S.  Noxious Morbitium,  Would be nice if you could get in touch
privately!

Steve,

The X Y co ords are printing the wrong way around for the SCAN results.

Other than that - all looks good!

:))

Paul

Hi All,

Okay, we found loads of niggly little bugs when we ran the game, so we
haven't sent the turns out.  Instead, we're going over them, fixing
the bits and pieces.

I'd expect Weds night as the likely time for the turns to come out to
you.

Steve
Madhouse UK

Greetings Mancle

i am Nightweaver, of many victories on many Wasted Worlds. Maybe this
one will be one of those.

OOC: So Steve have you played Necromancer before? :-)

--- In madhouse-necromancer@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Homer"
<stevehomer_pbm@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings to the necromancers old and new.
>
> Mancle
>

Mwahahahahaha!

Uvatha

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Homer
To: madhouse-necromancer@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 8:39 PM
Subject: [madhouse-necromancer] Wasted Greetings


Greetings to the necromancers old and new.

Mancle

Greetings to the necromancers old and new.

Mancle

Hi Thomas,

I know I'm a bit of a geek with info, but if he did change them, I
hope he'd do me the decent thing and publish what the old ones
actually did, so I could satisfy my curiousity from so long ago.
Quite a lot of my database is filled with ??? in the artefact
descriptions......

The thing is that I only ever found a few of the sacrifices, so many
of them I had ??? filed against them.

Anyway what's the harm with sticking with the old ones? There were
some combinations of sacrificing artefacts to get others, that no one
ever got round to attempting because the game either didn't last long
enough or I just wasn't lucky enough to get them in the first place.
So in this aspect Steve's artefact database is still as much as
mystery as it ever was.

Besides, if you are nice to my character in the game, I might share
some of my knowledge with you.... :-)

Regards

Paul

--- In madhouse-necromancer@yahoogroups.com, "Thomas Crane"
<blackwidow169@...> wrote:
>
> With this in mind I hope Stsve changed all the Sacrifices and
stuff.. That
> would liven things up a bit <evil grin>
>
> Thomas
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paul
> To: madhouse-necromancer@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:40 AM
> Subject: [madhouse-necromancer] OOC: wee....
>
>
> I've just found my old necromancer game icon database.....
>
> Goody, goody.
>
> Paul
>

With this in mind I hope Stsve changed all the Sacrifices and stuff.. That
would liven things up a bit <evil grin>

Thomas

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul
To: madhouse-necromancer@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:40 AM
Subject: [madhouse-necromancer] OOC: wee....


I've just found my old necromancer game icon database.....

Goody, goody.

Paul

I've just found my old necromancer game icon database.....

Goody, goody.

Paul

>>Steve - do you want to know about typos in the texts?
I seem to remember a past playtest where you weren't worried about typos -
thus I've asked this time.<<

Im not worried, Ill be sorting them out myself.  I've noticed loads...

Steve
Madhouse UK

Have just spent an hour looking for the old Necromancer turns.....

Fruitless search as it turned out - I'll just have to start building my Icon
List and Sacrifice info again - but - as well as disturbing years of dust
and finding a few small items which had fallen down the back of the shelf -
I've reminded myself of 20 years of PBM games.....

St Vals, Spiral Arm, Golden Realm, Kings of Steel, Middle Earth, Fleet
Maneuvers, Dogfight....

sigh - fond memories.

I even found a booklet called "Lizards Play by Disk"

:))

Good luck in the game all!

Paul

Quoth

I am relatively close to that (as the map is wraparound) but then again I am
close to almost everyone.

But still would like to come to some arrangement.

But its never a waste of minions if you win.. You can just raise them again
<evil grin>

Uvatha

----- Original Message -----
From: paulobrien
To: madhouse-necromancer@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 4:48 PM
Subject: [madhouse-necromancer] World Domination P1



If any other Lord of the Dead is close enough to contest the graveyard at
3403 today - please get in touch to discuss it - and future
collaberations......

Foolish to waste minions fighting over it.

Quoth

If any other Lord of the Dead is close enough to contest the graveyard at
3403 today - please get in touch to discuss it - and future
collaberations......

Foolish to waste minions fighting over it.

Quoth

Steve - do you want to know about typos in the texts?

I seem to remember a past playtest where you weren't worried about typos -
thus I've asked this time.

Paul

>>>According to the message on the front of the first turn you have
changed the way orders are writted which is fine and probably a good
move. Just that the location of your Necropolis is in the old way
still.... <<

Okay, guys.  I want to encourage everyone to report bugs like this, but
**please** try and give clear info.

You didn't say exactly what you meant.  But having looked at your turn I
think you mean that in the specific Necropolis Section the necropolis is
shown with the coordinates the wrong way around.  That's cool, Ill correct
that.

If you check the Map Key, though, you'll see its the correct way around
there.

Enjoy!

Steve
Madhouse UK

Look likes it all worked Steve

Now to start moaning <grin>. (and no I am not talking about the Zombies)

According to the message on the front of the first turn you have
changed the way orders are writted which is fine and probably a good
move. Just that the location of your Necropolis is in the old way
still....

Thomas

>>> The first game apparently has its full quota of volunteers, so does
> this mean the game can start now? And if so, when do you anticipate the
> first turn being sent out please?
>
> Now I've just got to go and try and dig out my old database of
> Necromancer artefacts.....
><<

The plan is to start the test game this weekend, as long as the setup goes
okay.  it may be that as soon as we start putting players into the game it
all crashes.  Wouldnt be the first time. <g>  Fingers crossed.

Steve
Madhouse UK

Thanks for the reminder Paul - all my old Necromancer stuff must be around
somewhere - unless the wife tidied it away in the bin.....

:))

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul" <wildwarp@...>
To: <madhouse-necromancer@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 11:37 AM
Subject: [madhouse-necromancer] 1st game all filled up


> Hi Steve,
>
> The first game apparently has its full quota of volunteers, so does
> this mean the game can start now? And if so, when do you anticipate the
> first turn being sent out please?
>
> Now I've just got to go and try and dig out my old database of
> Necromancer artefacts.....
>
> Regards
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
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>

Hi Steve,

The first game apparently has its full quota of volunteers, so does
this mean the game can start now? And if so, when do you anticipate the
first turn being sent out please?

Now I've just got to go and try and dig out my old database of
Necromancer artefacts.....

Regards

Paul

You did?

Bum

My apologies for not remembering that.

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "Madhouse UK" <steve@...>
To: <madhouse-necromancer@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [madhouse-necromancer] On Line Rules


>>>Steve - I've tried downloading the rules for Necro from the Madhouse
> Necro page link - but the link just jumps me back to the Madhouse Home
> Page.
> This happening to anyone else?<<
>
> My original advertising message to the DW list said this would be the
> case.
> Im working on the new PDF version of the rules and will get them up as
> soon
> as possible.
>
> Steve
> Madhouse UK
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
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> 15:49
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>

>>Steve - I've tried downloading the rules for Necro from the Madhouse
Necro page link - but the link just jumps me back to the Madhouse Home
Page.
This happening to anyone else?<<

My original advertising message to the DW list said this would be the case.
Im working on the new PDF version of the rules and will get them up as soon
as possible.

Steve
Madhouse UK

>>How many recruits do you have Steve for the tester game?

You'll have to see if you can interest any of the regular visitors to
your shop to join.....<<

The people on the list so far can be viewed here...
http://www.madcentral.com/necromancer/gamesstartingsoon.htm

Not as dramatic as I'd hoped.  Given that the game is free you'd have
thought we'd be able to fill a single game... <sigh>....  ah well, we'll see
what some more advertising can do.

As for visitors to the shop.  We have flyers and posters everywhere.  We
always try and recruit people.  We've got about 25 new DW players that way
and a fair few Lizards players, so who knows?

Steve
Madhouse UK

How many recruits do you have Steve for the tester game?

You'll have to see if you can interest any of the regular visitors to
your shop to join.....

Paul

--- In madhouse-necromancer@yahoogroups.com, "Madhouse UK"
<steve@...> wrote:
>
> >>I remember the old Necromancer paper games and winning quite a
few too,
> so will wait to see what these ones will be like, my only past
regret
> from the old games was that we never did get to investigate what a
lot
> of the higher summons did or some of the artefacts actually were.
> Lots of speculation, but never any answers.<<
>
> Well hopefully we can address this sort of thing once the game is
fully
> relaunched.
> All the old favourites will be there, of course, as well as some
new ones as
> we get rolling.
>
> Steve
> Madhouse UK
>

Steve - I've tried downloading the rules for Necro from the Madhouse
Necro page link - but the link just jumps me back to the Madhouse Home
Page.

This happening to anyone else?

Paul

>>I remember the old Necromancer paper games and winning quite a few too,
so will wait to see what these ones will be like, my only past regret
from the old games was that we never did get to investigate what a lot
of the higher summons did or some of the artefacts actually were.
Lots of speculation, but never any answers.<<

Well hopefully we can address this sort of thing once the game is fully
relaunched.
All the old favourites will be there, of course, as well as some new ones as
we get rolling.

Steve
Madhouse UK

Hi all,

Wow - not even sure that these message groups existed the last time I
played Necro - progress!

:))

Lets hope enough people want to give the new version of the game a try.

Paul

I ought not to be the first one posting here, but hey well.

I remember the old Necromancer paper games and winning quite a few too,
so will wait to see what these ones will be like, my only past regret
from the old games was that we never did get to investigate what a lot
of the higher summons did or some of the artefacts actually were.

Lots of speculation, but never any answers.

Paul