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Adventures By Mail
Adventures by Mail is a company that published play-by-mail (PBM) games. The company was founded in 1981. It published various PBM games including ''Beyond the Stellar Empire'', '' It's a Crime'', and '' Monster Island''. History The company—based in Cohoes, NY—began publishing PBM games in 1981. Paper Mayhem 1993. p. 9. In 1982, the company hired another gamemaster, Michael Popolizio. In the January–February 1985 issue of ''Paper Mayhem'' magazine, the company announced a significant expansion of one of their main PBM games, ''Beyond the Stellar Empire'' (''BSE'') had occurred the prior December. They asserted in 1993 that they were the largest PBM company in the United States. At the time, their game offerings included ''BSE'', ''It's a Crime'', ''Monster Island'', and ''Quest''. In 1983, readers of ''The Space Gamer'' voted Adventures by Mail the top PBM publisher of the year, due to the popularity of '' Warboid World'' and ''Beyond the Stellar Empire''. Adventures by Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cohoes, New York
Cohoes ( ) is an incorporated city located in the northeast corner of Albany County in the U.S. state of New York. It is called the "Spindle City" because of the importance of textile manufacturing to its growth in the 19th century. The city's factories processed cotton from the Deep South. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 16,168. The name Cohoes is believed to be derived from a Mohawk term, ''Ga-ha-oose'', referring to the Cohoes Falls and meaning "Place of the Falling Canoe," an interpretation noted by Horatio Gates Spafford in his 1823 publication "A Gazetteer of the State of New York". Later historians posited that the name is derived from the Algonquian ''Cohoes,'' a place name based on a word meaning 'pine tree'. History In the early years of Dutch colonial settlement, the majority of the city's territory was once part of the area of Manor of Rensselaerswyck, a feudal-style manor or patroonship. The land north of a line crossing the Cohoes Falls (today Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Space Gamer
''The Space Gamer'' was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and tabletop role-playing games. It quickly grew in importance and was an important and influential magazine in its subject matter from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s. The magazine is no longer published, but the rights holders maintain a web presence using its final title ''Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer''. History ''The Space Gamer'' (''TSG'') started out as a digest quarterly publication of the brand new Metagaming Concepts Metagaming Concepts, later known simply as Metagaming, was a company that published board games from 1974 to 1983. It was founded and owned by Howard Thompson, who designed the company's first game, '' Stellar Conquest''. The company also inven ... company in March 1975. Howard M. Thompson, the owner of Metagaming and the first editor of the magazine, stated "The magazine had been planned for after our third or fourth game but circumstances demand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flagship (magazine)
''Flagship'' is an independent magazine for gamers that was published from 1983 to 2010. Published bimonthly in the UK, it started in 1983 for play-by-mail game (PBM) players. The magazine also had a United States edition. In 2002, it expanded coverage to encompass other types of games such as boardgames, card games, computer games, and others. Nicky Palmer was the founding editor, with Carol Mulholland assuming editorial duties as of issue No. 70. The magazine ceased publication in 2010 after issue No. 130. History ''Flagship'' began publication in the United Kingdom in October 1983, the month before ''Gaming Universal's'' first issue was published in the United States. The editor for the initial Winter 1983 issue was Nick Palmer. ''Flagship'' was edited by Carol Mulholland from issue 70. Shortly after publishing issue 130 in 2010 Carol Mulholland suffered a serious illness and the magazine ceased publication. Coverage An average issue in 1987 was about 56 pages. The magazine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Play-by-mail Games
This is a list of play-by-mail (PBM) games. It includes games played only by postal mail, those played by mail with a play-by-email (PBEM) option, and games played in a turn-based format only by email or other digital format. It is unclear what the earliest play-by mail game is between chess and Go. ''Diplomacy'' was first played by mail in 1963. In the early 1970s, in the United States, Rick Loomis of Flying Buffalo Inc, began a number of play-by-mail games; this included games such as ''Nuclear Destruction'' (1970). This marked the beginning of the professional PBM industry. Other publishers followed suit, with significant expansion across the industry in the 1980s. This supported the publication of a number of newsletters from individual play-by-mail companies as well as independent publications such as '' Gaming Universal'', ''Paper Mayhem'', and ''Flagship'' which focused solely on the play-by-mail gaming industry. The sourcing of play-by-mail games in this list largely com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Of Kharne
In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the world as unique while others talk of a "plurality of worlds". Some treat the world as one simple object while others analyze the world as a complex made up of many parts. In ''scientific cosmology'' the world or universe is commonly defined as " e totality of all space and time; all that is, has been, and will be". '' Theories of modality'', on the other hand, talk of possible worlds as complete and consistent ways how things could have been. ''Phenomenology'', starting from the horizon of co-given objects present in the periphery of every experience, defines the world as the biggest horizon or the "horizon of all horizons". In ''philosophy of mind'', the world is commonly contrasted with the mind as that which is represented by the mind. ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fla02
FLA may refer to: Business and labour * Fair Labor Association * Fellow of the Library Association * Finance and Leasing Association, in the United Kingdom * Florida Library Association, association for librarians in Florida * Free Luxembourger Workers' Union (German: ') * Florida Library Association Education * First language acquisition * First language attrition * Foreign Language Assistant * Forest Lake Academy, in Apopka, Florida, United States * Fraternity Leadership Association Government and politics * Argentine Libertarian Federation (Spanish: ') * Azores Liberation Front (Portuguese: ') * Family Law Act (other) * Football Lads Alliance, UK campaign group Music * Fight Like Apes, an Irish shoegaze band * Front Line Assembly, a Canadian electro-industrial band People *Jens P. Flå (1923–2002), Norwegian politician Places * Flå, a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway ** Flå Station, a railway station in Buskerud county, Norway * Flå, Sør ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crasimoff's World
''Crasimoff's World'' is a play-by-mail (PBM) game that was first developed by Kevin Cropper in 1980. It is regarded as the first fantasy role-playing PBM game. Publication history In the 1970s, play by mail had become a popular method in the U.K. for games like chess and ''Diplomacy (game), Diplomacy''. In 1980, Kevin Cropper took his long-running ''Dungeons & Dragons'' campaign, "Crasimoff's World", and redesigned it as a postal game; he envisioned moderating his creation by replying to each player's actions with a hand-written response. He then advertised ''Crasimoff's World'' in ''White Dwarf (magazine), White Dwarf'' and subsequently received so many replies that he eventually left his job in order to spend all his time running the campaign. Cropper founded KJC Games as the parent company of the game. In her dissertation ''Playing with Power: The Authorial Consequence of Roleplaying Games'', Michelle Nephew identifies ''Crasimoff's World'' as the first fantasy role-playing P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitol (play-by-mail Game)
''Capitol'' is a closed-end, computer-moderated play-by-mail game created and moderated by Adventures by Mail beginning in 1983. Gameplay ''Capitol'' involved twelve identically sized teams of 4–8 players in a competition against the other teams to conquer the galaxy. A group of players could join the game as a team; otherwise, individual players were assigned to one of the teams. (Adventures by Mail tried to group individual players geographically so that they could contact each other to discuss strategy.) The game map was a 98 x 98 grid (9,604 squares) across which hundreds of worlds were scattered. Players would use the resources of their home world to design and build ships, then fan out, seeking to conquer new worlds, which in turn would give them the resources to explore further. When a player discovered a world controlled by a player from a different faction, combat would result. The object of the game was to be on the team that controlled the most worlds when the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warboid World
''Warboid World'' is a play-by-mail game originally published and moderated by Adventures by Mail in 1983 in which players build up armies of robots and send them to destroy other players' robot factories. History and development The 24-page saddle-stapled softcover rulebook for ''Warboids'' was written by Jack Everitt, Robert Cook, Michael Popolizio, and R. Steven Hasen, with interior and cover art by Tom Clark. Robert Cook created the programming for the computer moderation. It was published by Adventures by Mail of Cohoes, New York. A licensed copy of the game was also run in the U.K. by Roger Trethewey. In 1984, the cost of play in the United States was $1 for the rulebook, $3.50 for set-up, and $3.50 for each turn. In the U.K. the cost of each turn was £1.75. Gameplay ''Warboid World'' is a computer-moderated play-by-mail game for sixteen players set in the far future, after computers and robots have destroyed humanity. Each player takes on the role of a sentient compute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York (state)
New York, officially the State of New York, is a state in the Northeastern United States. It is often called New York State to distinguish it from its largest city, New York City. With a total area of , New York is the 27th-largest U.S. state by area. With 20.2 million people, it is the fourth-most-populous state in the United States as of 2021, with approximately 44% living in New York City, including 25% of the state's population within Brooklyn and Queens, and another 15% on the remainder of Long Island, the most populous island in the United States. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east; it has a maritime border with Rhode Island, east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the north and Ontario to the northwest. New York City (NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and around two-thirds of the state's popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
