I love posting the stories of my PBEM games onto the forum for others to read, but what if you're not as much of an exhibitionist as me? Maybe you fancy trying PBEM, but don't really know how to set up a game, and don't want to post your moves on the forum in case you make a total mess-up of it Playing a simple two-player map privately is a good way to start. What you can do is look for people in this PBEM forum that might want to play, find their email address from their profile, and send them an email asking if they would like to play a private one-on-one PBEM game with you But perhaps both of you are newbies and don't want to set the game up yourself. If you tell me what map you want, which player wants which race, and your email addresses I'm quite happy to set up games for people. If you want you can even email me, asking me to play in a private one-on-one game, rampantroj(at)yahoo.com, but I already play in a lot of games so please don't take it personally if I have to say no! Suggested starter maps would be my small newbie map, Warm Crevice, So don't be shy! Give it a try! Don't pass it by! ============================= Which map you want to play Which players want to play which races The email addresses of the players This will bring up a list of all races that are available in this map. Change the Select whether you want Select whether you want Select whether you want It should show the email address in As well as being able to edit your local email address here, you can also enter your You can enter your attachment directory too if you want, it’s not essential, it is the folder where your email program automatically saves incoming email attachments. I have it set to triumphstudios/ageofwonders/emailin but I’m not sure what difference it makes, if any Go back to the You are setting up First Conflict You will see from the order in the email game settings screen that play order is: elves, orcs, halflings, goblins, so you might set the email game name as: The order of the names is important. Firstly it reminds people what order they play in, and helps them know who to send it to next. Also if you start a thread in the AoW PBEM Forum for the new game, then once you have sent a turn on you can give your friends (and other forum members) a brief description of what you did during your turn. That may sound a bit silly, but it really adds to the fun and role-playing for me So that's the game started, but how about sending turns and receiving them? Hopefully in an ideal world you will have set up automatic sending, which is especially useful if you are in lots of PBEMs. But if you have to send manually: When you Once you become familiar with this process, you may want to change the order that people play in, to take account of different time zones of players from around the world. That involves using the editor. If you feel that brave (!) Frogman has done a guide for you, which is If you want to change an email address part way through the game, for example when a new player substitutes for one of the original players: when the player BEFORE the substituted player has their autosend message at the end of their turn, they can edit the email address the game sends to. The new address will be the new default, so it only needs to be done once [This message has been edited by Roger the Rampant (edited 01-31-2003 @ 03:24 PM).]
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Archie is playing Elves –
Bill is playing Orcs –
Charlie is playing Halflings –
Dave is playing Goblins –