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, ...
Sorry sorry sorry. Money and form on way from the recreant Gareth ... From: <uk-freeforms@yahoogroups.com> To: <uk-freeforms@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday,...
If that is becoming the norm, maybe our freeform writers should think about writing more female roles for future games - or at least a few more roles which...
Pen commented when I was persuading her we should come along that she'd have liked to have seen more female roles and a bit more variety in them. Paul ...
It's tricky I'v written about a dozen 20+ person games, and unless you know in advance the mix, it's just about guaranteed to get it wrong Writing 'sexless'...
... Another approach I've seen (in a modern day game) is to give every single character a gender-neutral name and keep all the text equally gender-neutral. To...
Ben Llewellyn
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May 11, 2005 1:39 pm
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... single ... This puts me in mind of a joke I once heard: Q. How many persons of a particular sexual, cultural or ethnic group does it take to change a...
Our excuse, such as it is, for having a roughly 2:1 male:female ratio in the Tombstone game is that back in, erm..., 1999 when we settled on the characters,...
That reminds me of a joke which Palfi the Clown once told me (he's quite famous now, as "Professor of Laughology" on the kids circuit, though his remit was...
1. To Tony & the Tombstone GMs - I will not be able to play Tombstone, this year. Surgery took more out of me than I realized, and I'm just now trying to...
Ben Llewellyn
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May 11, 2005 9:41 pm
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Apologies to all who have not met me, or are still hunting me to kill me after the great freeform disaster, but I finally married Lisa on April 23rd. I've been...
Well done CJ, nice to hear from you. -- David Townsend, Gentleman, Adventurer-at-Large and all round Good Egg 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' 'The best lack all...
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