Yesterday's Guardian had an article on Virtual Sweatshops. Apparently if you enroll in an online game, then there is an American company that will employ...
Everquest players have known about this for some time ;). There's a place called mysupersales.com where EQ, SW:G, players can buy 'phat lewt' (Credits/Gold...
Just as bad, I have a friend who made his Everquest cash by basically offering the equivalent of phone sex as his female character. What was possibly worse,...
Is anyone available on Saturday 19th (yes, this Saturday) in London from 10 am to 5pm (or later if you join us in the pub after the game)? A replacement...
There's also distinct possibility for the sale of forwards and options in online game characters. (Sorry; been revising Financial Derivatives, I have finals...
... I've also seen this at some (bad) larps. There was a trader at CP buying and selling OC magic:TG cards for both OC money and IC coins. As for the virtual...
*grins* Name one convention that DOESN'T have a booth bunny somewhere ;) ... From: Nathan Hook To: uk-freeforms@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005...
Wave! Hello everyone. I am very very pleased to tell you that the Maycon website now has some real details on it for this year - Huzzah! My apologies for being...
I've come accross this very good fantasy based Online RPG. I'd suggest you check it out. www.realm-of-legends.net And im kingpin on it if anyone joins. Lycos...
Quote from the front page story in today's Guardian about the actions that won Johnson Beharry the Victoria Cross: When asked what was going through his mind...
Oh, Harrumph to the pair of you :p Michelle - thanks for teh reminder. I MUST do somehting about this and soon. of course, the peril of buying charcater kit...
Apologies to anyone who gets this more than once! As you may or not be aware, I am moving to France next week. This means that for the first time in 8 years,...
For any of you interested in boardgames, here is a con to go to! If you wanted to run any other events over the weekend - just let me know! PSYCHOCON 2005 2pm...
This is a reminder that the deadline for cheaper signup for "Once Upon a Time in Tombstone" written by Steve Hatherley, Tony Mitton, Heidi Kaye, AJ Smith and...
Hello all With other 20 people i am playing an amber campaign which is half pbem and half freeform The players are all the sons and daughters of Oberon. The...
Hi Francesco, I have heard of this structure being used in the UK, indeed, the example I am thinking of was also for Amber. The run I was meant to take part ...
Thanks for the answer, and other are very wellcome. The fact is that even if in Italy freeforming and in general narrative RPG are having some sort of golden...
... Hi Francesco, There's been a bit of writing here about the "Oxford Society Game" which has used this combined PBEM / freeform structure for a number of...
This is familiar, there was a massive Ars Magica game at Warwick University that was 3/4 tabletop and 1/4 freeform. It got so big and all encompassing that...
The short answer is yes... The Ars Magica Freeforms used a similar structure from what I've been told, and there isa freeform game called Firstborn which uses...
... After the distribution of the characters among the players we have started with a period of PBEM in which we have played the youth of the princes and...
That does sound very different... Most of the time I've seen email used like that is for political power games, where the email is used to sort out powerplays...
Does anyone want a two-drawer grey metal filing cabinet? It is free to anyone who wants it. I am helping my mum declutter her house and the first of many items...
Seems as though Wayne Rooney has been banned from going to a kid's school for swearing on the pitch. Lucky he didn't slap someone across the table for stealing...
Hi all, Our latest information is that we now have registrations from 19 women (for 20 roles) and 28 men (for 42 roles). I'm listing all those we know about, ...