Dan Beaudoin writes:

>A thought on marketing.  I am a member of an online roleplaying 
>community,
>and one of the center pieces of the list is the Play By Email games.
>Perhaps if a large scale online Dragonraid game of the same type was 
>put
>together, with the actions documented in novel form and posted on the 
>web,
>so people could see more of what is involved and how the game flows, 
>it
>might help.  It's cheap to do, although possibly time consuming, and 
>it
>would be very easy to send web links out for people to read and 
>consider.
>It might help pastors and youth leaders to see the value of the 
>system

Normally, I would support such an idea.  But, as you noted, it would take
a lot of time and at least two people to run it.  One AM and one
"novelizer"; both could write the story.  And we still have not figured
out how to work out reciting WordRunes through email or online.

Since we are stretched a bit thin at this point, I do not think that the
play by email game would be a good idea.  After we have the Second
Edition out, maybe.

I have played in a couple of email attempts, and they have fallen apart
for various reasons.  I ran one game for a player, and was ready to add
another (I did not want to bite off too much too fast) when the player
had to quit.

Thanks for the idea,

Joe