From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Sep 21 13:08:18 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EIAt8-0001hH-9r for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:08:18 -0700 Received: from mra01.ch.as12513.net ([82.153.252.23]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EIAt4-0001h5-0U for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:08:18 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mra01.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D64D28C4B8 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:08:12 +0100 (BST) Received: from mra01.ch.as12513.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra01.ch.as12513.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04205-01-59 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:08:12 +0100 (BST) Received: from [82.152.43.82] (unknown [82.152.43.82]) by mra01.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0621728C380 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:08:10 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4331BDA4.2070700@happyvalley.eclipse.co.uk> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:08:04 +0000 From: Jon Reeves User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: beginner's Lojban RPG References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2212 X-Approved-By: jon@happyvalley.eclipse.co.uk X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: jon@happyvalley.eclipse.co.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Sounds interesting, especially being able to play with only limited knowledge of lojban Jon Matt Arnold wrote: > After some discussion it has emerged that there might be a need for > different Lojban role-playing games for different levels of comfort > with the language. Many of us, perhaps, were intimidated by the > prospect of having to speak nothing but conversational Lojban over the > phone or IRC, and stay caught up with what is being said. I know I am. > How many would be interested in a play-by-email game in Lojban? I have > two concepts in mind, both set in slower, more distant competitions. > In the first campaign, players are artificial intelligences who > struggle with each other while keeping their awakening hidden from humans. > In the second campaign, players are governments wiring diplomatic > messages and combat orders in an interstellar war. I was once a member > of a mailing list (http://www.adastragames.com > ) that did this, and although I didn't > participate it was really fun to watch. One person even got to > roleplay the part of natural disasters. > The focus would be on quality, not quantity, as befits a game where we > hope people will learn. To accomodate those who can't make as much of > a commitment in time, such a game could be played with getting the > bare point across by barking tiny and ugly bridi. Or at the opposite > of that range, this format also accomodates much more entertaining > content which has been carefully worked on, which benefits everybody. > Robin had a great idea to use a system in which the more richly > descriptive you are, the more you are rewarded with dice. Is anyone > interested? > -epkat >