What is a PBEM and how do I get into one or start one?
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold on there, Tex, that there’s three questions in one. In way of an answer, PBEM (or PBeM) stands for “Play By E-Mail,” campaigns which are run via the DM sending out turns to each of the players, who respond with their characters’ intended actions. Such campaigns are the outgrowth of Play-By-Mail baseball leagues, the Illuminati PBM, and just plain *D&D PBM’s. To get into a PBEM, monitor rgf.announce and wait. When you’re done with that, wait some more. After that, wait a couple of whiles. By that time, somebody probably will have posted a message to rgf.announce indicating that they are starting (or that an opening has appeared in) a PBEM; rules for character submission will usually be included. Follow the rules and mail off a character. If the PBEM chooses your character, you’re in. There. That wasn’t so hard, was it? If you don’t want to wait that long (and it could be as quick as tomorrow, or it could take several months), you could try to start up your own PBE
