Play-by-Email INWO

I have run a full play-by-email game, and I am preparing to run another. It's a lot of fun; I quite recommend it.

I run (and play) PBEM Games for three purposes:

• To be a teaching tool for new players to learn the rules of INWO, since there are some players who learn better by example than from the rules.
• To be an example of strategy and of conspiracy, for the benefit of players who know the rules, but want to learn about how people actually tend to play.
• To be a point of discussion for players, to talk about strategy and 'what-would-have-happened-if' discussions.

State of the Current Game

The six-player built-deck INWO game has begun.

• Current Public State of the Game
• Past Events of the Game

I'm also running a four-player game of INWO SubGenius with some of the spectators.

• Current Public State of the SubGenius Game
• The History of the SubGenius Game

Currently, the mailing list includes six built-deck players, four SubGenius players, eleven spectators, and me. If you'd like to join as a spectator, send me mail at ralph@cs.cmu.edu.

Other PBEM INWO Pages

• PBEM Game 1
  • The first full PBEM Game I ran. See the complete history, the records of what cards people had and how they conspired, and commentaries from one player and one spectator.
• My History of Game 2
  • The second PBEM game of which I know was a game run by Don Fnordlioni in which I played. Unfortunately, Don Fnordlioni didn't reveal the full state of the game; what I have provided is my biased and limited view of the progress of the game.
• Rules and Procedures for PBEM Games
  • Special rules and circumstances for the PBEM games I run.
• PBEM Rules from Compuserve
  • From Compuserve, a set of rules for running PBEM games without a central moderator.
• Techniques for Running PBEM Games
  • Want to run a PBEM game of your own? Here's how I do it.