The asynchronous challenge you mention is kind of what I was thinking.
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:48:26 -0600 (MDT), DEREK STANLEY <>
wrote:
> Pbem is fun but its fraught with problems, its slow and you're relying
> on people to post regularly and every so often you'll get some one,
> usually me, who has a free few minutes who pushes the storyline forward
> in major jumps and the rest of the crew are completely left in the lurch
> because they were in a meeting or unable to post. You also run into
> issues with cross posts moving the story thread backwards forwards and
> sideways at the same time.
> About a decade ago I ran a pbIRC that forced us all to sit down at our
> computers for 3 hours on a sunday and it was brilliant like f2f gaming.
> It lasted about a year and a half and we had a ton of fun.
>
> Derek StanleySent from my iPhone...
> On 2012-06-10, at 0:09, "krugerbf" wrote:
>
>> That's really cool. I have to admit, though, that I have no idea what
> a PBeM game would be like. Even though I develop online training and
> mobile apps for the Army, I am in fact probably a closet Luddite.
> >
> > How does PBeM work?
> >
> > By the way, I'm glad you mentioned "Firefly."
> >
> > You can't watch that show without thinking, "Joss Whedon has played
> Traveller," but I have never seen him admit that anywhere. Has he ever
> admitted it? Has anyone even asked him?
> >
> > ALSO, I can't watch the recent Battlestar Galactica reboot without
> thinking, "they've played TNE," especially the first episodes. It's
> eerie.
> > Has anyone seen them admit to that?
> >
> > Dave
> >
>
> PBeM is the closest to face to face I can get. All my local mates are
> interested in is the board game "Axis height: 0;">
>