At 09:21 PM 7/20/98 +0100, Dave Eadie wrote: >Jeff, > >By the way -- where are you located again? A suburb of Portland, Oregon called Beaverton. Most globes and maps of the US show Seattle, which is in Washington state, about 180 miles north of us. >Thanks for your thoughts on Talania - I think that when I came to DRaid I was hoping that it was going to be an acceptable alternative for AD&D, but I was wrong that never bothered me but now I am thinking and planning my thoughts regarding running a PBEM (still a long way of - my plans are only to give myself a creative outlet that my art cannot supply) I think that perhaps to use Talania as a RPG world would not be a good use of it or my time if later I decided to put forward my ideas for playtesting and publication then I would not get far because I had started out from the wrong base. > >I would still like to use Draid in a PBEM with the characters still being Christian LRs bringing the gospel to a dark and needy world but a world that is more like the 'norm' to some degree. I love some of what I find in DRAid (hence I want to use it) but find myself wanting to set things up more like a typical FRPG. Dilemma and I do not want what I feel OK to weaken another brothers better use of DRaid for discipleship. Based on the statement Dick made recently, you may want to clarify that with him. I really wish you could be a part of the discussion this Sunday -- are you limited (for one reason or another) as to the amount of time you can stay online? You mentioned telephone charges -- do you have to pay for your on-line time? We in the states may be making assumptions about how you're connected to the 'Net and to email. Would you enlighten us. And, please, bear in mind that some of us are (okay, _I'm_) really a neophyte when it comes to both computer and RPG terminology. Jeff Smith - WilderLands Hold <>< <http://www.teleport.com/~thehold> =================================== "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world... "Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has!" ================================== Fight spam! Join C.A.U.C.E. <http://www.cauce.org>