Anyone have a space open for me in an ongoing Talisman play by email round? Or in a similar game.

I have been searhing internet for some simple rpg pbem rules system but haven´t found any good. Would love to gamelead my colleages at work in some kind of rpg/boardgame fantasy setting with simple rules that can be handled in text only. Anyone got a nice system worked out?

I guesss I can start a talisman game and just mail the one who has the next turn and then when his turn is finished I send a reult mail to all players before going to the next one in turn.

Any recommendations?

how would you do deal with the stuff that other people can do to you during your turn? if you play the way i think you play (one player takes his turn, and then once he is finished sends what he does/did to the rest of the players) then how do things like counterspelling someones spell, or activiating one of your abilities during someone else's turn come into play.

That's not the only issue. There is also the instance where a player would pick up an adventure card that stays on the space, wether it be a place or a lost battle etc. That would be emailed to everyone else, and they would have to search all through their adventure card pack to find that card, to place it on the space- giving them ample opportunity to look through the pack to see what's coming and in what order.

I would love to be able to play against others this way (thinking back to the Chess sequence in Blade Runner) but with Talisman where the various packs of cards are concerned, as well as players being able to cast spells when its someone else's turn normally etc, it simply won't work as far as I can see.

I think the rules will have to be simplified so that you can only cast spells when it´s your own turn. But I see no problem for counterspell spells that are directed to a character. When one character does something to another, you simply send a mail about this to that person and ask if he wants to do anything about it, if it´s possible. If it´s not possible then the gamemaster wont need to send the question at all. As a gamemaster I have a real board at my home keeping track of where everyone is.

Gotta make sure that all the people have the same expansions, otherwise how can they look at a card from an expansion they don't have??

How do you deal when a character land on the same space as another and attack him or her???

There is probably answers to all the questions leading to playability of Talisman through email but honestly, for me, part of the fun in Talisman is kicking someones @ss and interact and socialized with them

I seem to recall somebody writting that they played via webcam with 1 player having the main game and his webcam pointing to the board, he was moving tokens and cards for other players, I thinks it was on the old BI forum.

Good luck and cheers

i would think some sort of instant messenger game wouldnt be TOO hard to do, but an email game would probably take eternity. me and my cousin have this game to a science, and when we play a 2 player game between us, it usually takes us like an hour and a half-2 hours. emails take longer and such. meh i could possibly see a IM game but not an email, too long of time gaps between when people can discuss whats happening and react.

A instant message system sounds like the only viable option, considering what has to happen in one turn only.

1. GM: roll the dice for movement; tell the player the space options available and what's there.
2. PLAYER: chooses a space, and designates space or other adventurer to encounter.
3. GM: either cards to draw, cards present, or both, and/or face the space... or if another player is present
4. GM: roll all die necessary for a 1st card; report result to player
5. PLAYER: choose any additional options, claim spells/objects used to counter or alter outcomes
6. GM: retabulate results of first encounter; move on to second encounter if one is present
7. etc.
8. Next Player

Well we have too keep the mailserver at work running :-)

I actually found some pbem rules over at talismanisland.com I´m looking into them now.

Hmm... if the game were live... or run in live sessions... a chat module with webcam pointed at the GM's board might be interesting, and a little bit simpler than doing miked webcams for all players.