[TML] OT: Query regarding UK PBM game from the '80's

[MJ Dougherty]

As I recall it was based around a settlement and leader-characters. You 
could salvage stuff from ruins, have your Loremaster design things and the 
populace build them. Still can't remember the name.


> Thanks Martin! Anyone else, though?
>
> -Tom
>
>
> On 02/10/2007, MJ Dougherty <martin-j.dougherty at virgin.net> wrote:
>>
>> I recall seeing a review of this game. Damned if I can recall the name
>> though.
>>
>> > In the mid-'80's (around 1985 or so) one of my secondary school 
>> > teachers
>> > played a Play-by-mail game. I'd like to run a version of it for a group
>> of
>> > friends via email. There's two problems I have, though... I can't
>> remember
>> > the name and do not have a copy of the rules...
>> >
>> > So, if I describe the premise, then perhaps the collected wisdom of the
>> > TML
>> > may be able to furnish me with the details I need.
>> >
>> > Without further ado:
>> >
>> > It was set in Britain after an apocalyptic event (not sure if this was
>> > post-nuke or not). Civilisation has collapsed and infrastructure is
>> > non-existent.
>> >
>> > Each player is in control of a group of survivors, who each have a
>> number
>> > of
>> > skill sets (an engineer, a doctor, a chemist as well as a number of
>> > "ordinary people"etc) and are in control of an area of the British 
>> > isles
>> > (a
>> > couple of square kilometers or so) where they have to build a 
>> > community,
>> > and
>> > resist the attempts of the other players to sabotage said efforts by
>> means
>> > of raiding, spying and such underhanded deeds.
>> >
>> > I think each turn was either a week of game time or a month at the
>> > outside.
>> > I also think the game (since it was PBM only at the time) was only run
>> in
>> > the UK.
>> >
>> > Can anyone help me with either the name of the PBM or a link for the
>> > rules?
>> >
>> > Thank you in advance,
>> >
>> > -Tom
>> >
>> > --
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>> change
>> > of
>> > a fiver - Tom Holt, Valhalla.
>> >
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