I mentioend the program Vassal a few pages ago, and have suddenly come down with an itching to play something deep and play by email with it. For those who don't know, or are too lazy to find my post,
Vassal is a java engine that lets people play board games. They generally contain everything that is needed to play, though they can be fiddly to work out how exactly they work, and are occasionally tempromental (I tried playing Carcassonne with a friend and the auto-score system was a little crash happy so we simply kept manual score instead, not an issue at all.
Depending on the module, the games can require the players to do everything themselves, whereas others automate a lot of it. Also, any Fantasy Flight Games will have some cards blanked out as a method of 'copy protection', meaning that players have to own a copy of the game to play it completely. However, as long as one player has a copy of the game then they can edit the vassal module (It is essentually a fancy zip file) and replace the censored cards with the non-censored version. Just obviously these can't be hosted on the official Vassal website.
Anyway! Anyone fancy a PBEM game of anything? I'm open to pretty much anything, though would be interested in giving
Twilight Struggle (2 player) a go, of for something with more players, how about
Blood Bowl: Team Manager (2-6 players) a go? Its a card drafting sorta game. Rules for both games can be found online with a quick google search, or I can help explain. (BB:TM is also FFG, so I can help with that if there is desire to play)
Of course, there are
lots of other modules available for play as well!
. It's just a piece of card and a bunch of cards, how can they charge that much?!!
