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It's nearly time for DragonCon again, the huge convention in Atlanta with everything from SciFi to comics to gaming. This year the PBEM (and simming) community will be represented!
A group of people are hosting a panel discussion on Star Trek and online simming.
It is almost time for the number one event for all of us online PBEM roleplayers out there: the SciWorld Online Convention!
Although not entirely about the type of PBEM (play by email) games PBEMPlayers focuses primarily on, the Lone GM Blog is still full of interesting observations. He writes about another type of online roleplaying: what the Lone GM calls Play-By-Post games. So if rules, game systems and dice rolls are your thing, check it out!
Once again, our very good friends in the PBEM game Blue Dwarf stepped up and let us hear what interesting stories another one of their members, Andy Jones, tells us.
David "Onion" Ball has once again been kind enough to submit an interesting article to PBEMPlayers.com. The article talks about the importance of rules for PBEM games in general and more specifically when it comes to god-modding - a problem many game master and players of PBEM games face.
You can read this article on PBEMPlayers.com: http://www.pbemplayers.com/ running_your_own_pbem_game/ p2_articleid/35
In the article "Creating a character", David "Onion" Ball takes us through several important things to consider when creating our own character for a PBEM game. Talking from experience, Onion gives several good examples of things to include and things to avoid.
Go on, read the article now: http://www.pbemplayers.com/ character_development/ p2_articleid/34
Would you like to see your article published on PBEMPlayers.com? Please submit it to us using the form on http://www.pbemplayers.com/about_pbemplayers
This article is not about PBEM games in its strictest form, it focuses on using journals/blogs to play. It is actually a very interesting concept that takes PBEM gaming one step further.
I think it raises the question of what a PBEM game actually is, where do we draw the line? There are already games out there using blogs as post archive, instead of a mailing list. The step from that to to journal gaming is rather small in my opinion. Do we need to start calling it "text-based asynchronous roleplaying" instead?
Ginger was very kind to let us post the article here, thank you very much!
If you have written anything you think would be of interest to the general PBEM community, we would love to post it on PBEMPlayers.com! It does not matter if it's long or short, as long as it is interesting and of use for at least larger parts of the PBEM (pbem/forum/any type of free-form textbased roleplaying) players.
You will be credited with whatever name or alias you like, and I'll keep any links or banners in the article (within reason). This is a great way to promote your game!
Please use the form available at http://www.pbemplayers.com/about_pbemplayers to submit your material. But do remember that it must be something you have written yourself, and not something you found and copied from the Internet.
Barb of PBEM2.com posted a very interesting piece about "Mary Sue" characters. A "Mary Sue" character is described as a character create to be a better version of the player himself. Such characters tend to be too perfect and without flaws. While creating a character for your PBEM game based on yourself is fine, "Mary Sue" characters are often bordering to godmoding.
You can read more about it here: Recognizing the Mary Sue character and learning how to avoid her
The first Spotlight interview is online! This month it features Andy Longman, moderator for the PBEM game Blue Dwarf. He has some very interesting thoughts on the different aspects of PBEM gaming as well as plenty of stories and interesting characters to share with us!
Check it out now, PBEM Players Spotlight Interview!
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