05-24-2025, 04:34 AM
Hi All,
I am a long time PBMer.
WLTP (Where Lies the Power) was my first ever PBM and I think still my favourite, set in a Dune like world with you playing a House of the Landstradd. Liked it so much I bought the game when it folded.
LEGENDS. Looked for a game to replace WLTP i found Legends. Very different with Magic Fantasy Characters and Armies. I still think this is the game with most depth. Certainly the only one still running. When Rhann Games ceased running it in the UK, I got it transferred to a new started company, Harlequin Games, who still host it today!
https://www.harlequingames.com/
VGA Planets 4. This used to be played by mail with a floppy disk coming through the post. Then via Bulleting Boards and then of course by e-mail, becoming a PBeM. Space conquest with you getting to choose your race ripped off from Sci Fi, Federation, Galactica, Romulans, etc.... Games still run (and I still play) on the Drewhead Server. Come and join if you fancy it.
http://vgap.drewhead.org/
I have played several other games along the way, can't remember the names of most of them, but Middeearth PBM (MEPBM) has to have a mention.
And for a few years I worked for Harlequin and Middleearth Games, GMing Legends and MEPBM. For Harlequin I also helped finish the development of the newest module, Blood Tides Rising (BTR), which as I write this will be Harlequins' next new game!
https://www.harlequingames.com/
Dean
I attach some maps of different races' view of the world
I am a long time PBMer.
WLTP (Where Lies the Power) was my first ever PBM and I think still my favourite, set in a Dune like world with you playing a House of the Landstradd. Liked it so much I bought the game when it folded.
LEGENDS. Looked for a game to replace WLTP i found Legends. Very different with Magic Fantasy Characters and Armies. I still think this is the game with most depth. Certainly the only one still running. When Rhann Games ceased running it in the UK, I got it transferred to a new started company, Harlequin Games, who still host it today!
https://www.harlequingames.com/
VGA Planets 4. This used to be played by mail with a floppy disk coming through the post. Then via Bulleting Boards and then of course by e-mail, becoming a PBeM. Space conquest with you getting to choose your race ripped off from Sci Fi, Federation, Galactica, Romulans, etc.... Games still run (and I still play) on the Drewhead Server. Come and join if you fancy it.
http://vgap.drewhead.org/
I have played several other games along the way, can't remember the names of most of them, but Middeearth PBM (MEPBM) has to have a mention.
And for a few years I worked for Harlequin and Middleearth Games, GMing Legends and MEPBM. For Harlequin I also helped finish the development of the newest module, Blood Tides Rising (BTR), which as I write this will be Harlequins' next new game!
https://www.harlequingames.com/
Dean
I attach some maps of different races' view of the world
