Anyone interested in PBEM gaming?

[Imaginos]

I recall, years ago when I was pretty active playing Chronopia, that some folks on the Warzone forums would play games via PBEM using a program called Cyberboard. It was pretty fun, but it did require some effort setting up - basically creating the map files and making the counters for the models. Is anyone interested in working with me to put something together like this for Games We play?

I just dug up the link to the Cyberboard software: http://cyberboard.brainiac.com/index.html
There is also Vassal, but I've never used it so I'm only going to start playing with it now. http://www.vassalengine.org/community/i ... &Itemid=25

The way Cyberboard worked when I played it, you made your moves and die rolls in the game (via the game engine). You then had it send the file via email to the other player, and he would open the file and see what happened on your side. This might be a bit complex with wound allocation rules and such nowadays, to the point that it might not be worth it. But it might work, at least for smaller games (I'd hate to see an apocalypse game like this). There was some amount of trust involved because of the way it goes.

Is there any interest in this?

[DFMalivek]

I'm bored enough and unemployed to give it a shot.

[montaa]

I'd like to give it a shot. You're looking for "once a day" type gaming right?

[Imaginos]

Okay, so there is some interest. If we wanted to play certain GW games, we'd have to make a gamebox privately - not sure what is involved in that beyond the images, icons, and maps. I'll start looking into what it would take to put this together.

As for frequency, I'd say that would be best worked out between players. Some people might be able to get several turns emailed back and forth in one night, while others might just get one update per day or two.

[montaa]

I'll download the app and start working with it. I don't have a clue how complicated, or not, this will be. More updates when I have them.

[darkwolf3772]

Definately interested keep me posted on working it out and if it becomes to be completed and up and running.

[HarlequinZero]

How does the program handle things that happen during player 1's turn that player 2 can affect? Taking Warhammer Fantasy as an example, player 1 casts a spell and player two wants to use a dispel scroll to nuke it. Can a PBEM game handle this sort of a turn interrupt without having to make each step its own email exchange?