Any PBEMs going on at the moment?

[Solmyr]

Just curious. I haven't heard of any new PBEMs being started in a while, is anyone still running/interested in running them or are they dead? Or am I just badly misinformed and there are, in fact, dozens of thriving PBEMs out there? :D

[Ksaturn]

look around some... search for 'PBEM BR birthright' on google or something. AoS II(Age Of Shadow 2) is accepting players right now i think. just trying to help...

[Solmyr]

Originally posted by Ksaturn@Sep 1 2004, 01:20 PM
AoS II(Age Of Shadow 2) is accepting players right now i think. just trying to help...
I doubt that, because I've stopped running AoS2 in January. :P

[Bokey]

Help out the ignorant newbie, what is a PBEM? Actually, I believe I know what it IS (a simulation of domain turns run by a moderator), but what does the abbreviation stand for? :unsure: If I am wrong on what it is.... let me know that as well.

Thanks,

[lord_arioch]

I understand it as Play by E-mail. PBEM

[A_dark]

www.birthrightonline.com (website)
http://www.deault.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl (forum of the same game)

PBEM stands for Play By E-Mail

[Birthright-L]

> Just curious. I haven`t heard of any new PBEMs

> being started in a while, is anyone still

> running/interested in running them or are they dead?

> Or am I just badly misinformed and there are, in

> fact, dozens of thriving PBEMs out there? :D



There`s barely any going on at the moment. The few

that exist are listed on my links page

(http://www.geocities.com/fearless_leader101/links.html).



I must admit that I`ve been chomping at the bit to

play in one, as I havn`t been in a domain level pbem

since the beginning of the year.



As for the question of whether anyone is interested in

running them, all I`ll say is... "stay tuned for

updates in the very near future." =)



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[Hrandal]

I've been trying on-and-off to find a BR PBEM ever since I encountered the setting (a year or two ago) without any success. I might even end up running one myself, but I'm not sure how much work it would entail. The more I play BR, the more crunchy I find the domain actions and warfare rules as they are laid out. I would probably use some kind of simplified, mainly narrative, way of making things work.

Personally I think armies are far too cheap, every game I play in seems to end up with PCs carpeting their realms in forces. I've seen the listed armies of Ghoere get beaten up by a monster army raised by Roesone, which just shouldn't be possible either in setting or mechanics - Ghoere is supposed to be a great power.

[tcharazazel]

Heh, didn't Ghoere increase its army once it figured out that its neighbors had increased theirs? And Ghoere would be able to raise a larger army than Roesone, more likely.

Just gotta remember to run those nearby NPC realms also, it sucks for the DM, tho it needs to be done in order to make it realistic.

[Hrandal]

Well, it was Ghoere's army in the field, rather than its defence forces, but even so, it was a very considerable army - many sturdy mercenary units. The Roesone player was a bit of a munchkin, his country was constantly grinding along on the edge of the bankruptcy because he had this huge force mobilised.

Also didn't hurt that the PC was a living engine of army-wielding destruction. Every leadership/warcraft feat and blood ability.

The point is, if there's inflation going on, and it would be stupid for everyone not to increase the size of their armies, then maybe units should be a little more expensive.

[Raesene Andu]

Ghoere is a great power in the d20 Atlas of Cerilia, very powerful indeed now. I'm going to put in some strategies for running Ghoere as an enemy as well, a few hints on how to keep up with the PCs. There should be no way Roesone can compete with Ghoere on a one to one basic, Ghoere is the most populous nation in Anuire and has a hell of a lot of wealth and military power. Even Ghoere vs. Roesone, Ilien, Medoere, and say Mhoried, I'd back Ghoere to win. Any more nations than that and it might get a little more troublesome.

According to my calculations, Ghoere is the third most powerful nation in Anuire behind The Gorgon and Avanil, and it is very close to Avanil, it just has fewer friends, which is Tael's main problem.

[CMonkey]

It was Ghoere vs. Roesone, Aerenwe, Elinie, the LPA and the Osoerdean Partisans in Osoerde after Ghoere's invasion of Osoerde.

The allies used significant magic in order to basically teleport an entire army into Osoerde and catch Ghoere's Expeditionary Force by surprise and still Aerenwe's and Elinie's forces were utterly destroyed while Roesone suffered over 50% casualties.

All the allies committed pretty much their entire military force (after securing defence agreements with the Mhor (amongst others)) while Ghoere's expeditionary force was by no means their entire army (Ghoere has other priorities too).

The battle was bloody challenging, weakening the allies considerably and only really, really annoying Tael. Ghoere is THE major threat to the security of Anuire, even after that battle.

There was no one-to-one battle and Ghoere has not been "defeated" in any significant, long term, way. Try to assume you've not got the whole story before tearing anecdotes apart guys.

[Hrandal]

That's true - and I apologise for not describing the entire situation.

BUT

Roesone's army, as listed by the player, was frankly comparable to the Ghoere army list given in Ruins of Empire (before raising of mercenaries). Also, Ghoere had high level magic help as well, and a unit of undead, and the good guys were coming on piecemeal.

In fairness, I should attribute a big chunk of Roesone's success to one of the Ghoere generals' misguided attempts to cavalry-charge Roesone's pike-hedge. (Not the GM's decision, I might add.)

It was more the fact that Roesone could have such a huge army, while Ghoere, which is frequently described as a military powerhouse, didn't seem to have much of an edge in terms of numbers or quality. As it was both countries expeditionary forces (I guess, whatever they'd consider they thought they had surplus after seeing to their own defence) I thought it seemed a reasonably good example.