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

[Tom Cusworth]

Aye, that's the one! Pity you or I can't remember the name. I think I'll
have to design the game from the premise up... Ah well, everyone loves a
project! Thanks for trying to wrack your brain, though!

-Tom


On 03/10/2007, MJ Dougherty <martin-j.dougherty at virgin.net> wrote:
>
> 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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