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From: wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: An FRP game on the net.
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Date: Thu, 3-Nov-83 17:21:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  3 17:21:21 1983
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Would something like this be possible:

o  Have some kind person volunteer to invest mucho time to GMing.
   Better would be to get a group of prople that could meet to GM
   so as to share the load, especially if this game would be run as
   accessable to the whole net's population.

o  Have the game based on a city and its environment, so as to avoid
   the hassles somewhat of getting everyone to cooperate as a party.

o  Have turns sent to the GM by the player via MAIL lets say every 
   Monday.  That is only at most one turn a week, but time will be
   needed for the GM(s) to digest the turn and return the results.

o  Those players who want to disclose part or all of their movements,
   could post articles to the net.  Perhaps written in the sense of
   the newpaper of the local environ.  (by the way, I am beginning
   to see something like "Sanctuary", where many differant characters
   all exist seperate though interrelated in the same environment.)

The only problems I can see with this is first the keeping of the
time line straight between characters.  (perhaps by stating that 
each week of real time is two weeks of game time...absolutely.
However, this will cause the turns to have to be strategic, and
only rarely tactical.)  And secondly, and what I see to be the biggest
problem is that we will have to find volunteers to referee, at
probably a large investment of time.

What does everyone think?

-- 
                                          Walt Pesch
                                    AT&T Western Electric