[TML] If A PBEM...

[Richard Aiken]

> "Make up some Traveller characters and email them to me.  Include as
> much or as
> little detail as you want about them and their backgrounds."
> Is pretty much word-for-word how Eris told us to set up our characters
> for his games; I've been in one or the other of them for over five
> years now I think. :-) It works.

Ah.  That seems pretty simple.  So I should just post to the list
something like: "Wanna Play?"

> You DO have to be relaxed about the pace of the game, though...they
> tend to go in spurts.

Yeah.  I've noticed.  At first, it really, really bugged me.  But now
I'm not so stressed about it.

> Some GM's mandate "Reply within XX Hours or your character does
> nothing", or institute a turn system..it really depends on what the
> players want and how their playing styles are, and more importantly
> how busy the GM's life is :-)

Well, my life isn't all that busy.  I work two jobs, but both of them
consist of (mainly) sitting at a desk and waiting for the phone to
ring.  Occassionally, it rings off the hook.  But there are stretches
of an hour or more at time where all I do is sit online and gab.

> at the end there I think we had more NPC's on the ship
> than PC's. But it was hella fun while it lasted.

That's where we are now, in the Play by Post game.  Two players and
(at last count) ten NPCs.  Not counting an ex-PC (mine) and NPC whose
exact whereabouts are currently unknown (which is why I'm somebody
else right now).

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein