a question...

visitor · Post by **visitor** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 10:31 am

hello, I have recently discovered Almaea, but I can't seem to understand what it exactly is, or how I get there... If someone would enlighten me that would be magnificant.
Thank you

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 11:23 am

Almea is an imaginary world, created by Mark Rosenfelder. You can't physically get there, unfortunately. You can only imagine.

Warmaster · Post by **Warmaster** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 12:30 pm

look here for the exact answer to "How"

http://www.zompist.com/visitor.htm

and for the other questions, go to http://www.zompist.com/drill0.htm and follow the pages.

visitor · Post by **visitor** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 1:51 pm

yes, I have read both, but what I actually wanted to know, on what site does the rping take place?or isn't this something done over the internet?

Jaaaaaa · Post by **Jaaaaaa** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 2:01 pm

there's no "official" RPing site or server or whatever, but if you want to RP in Almea, I guess you could.

Warmaster · Post by **Warmaster** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 2:14 pm

Mark once said that anyone was willing to RPG in almea, somewhere on the board i beleive.

Aidan · Post by **Aidan** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 9:01 pm

visitor wrote:yes, I have read both, but what I actually wanted to know, on what site does the rping take place?or isn't this something done over the internet?

As people have sort of said: Almea is primarily an artistic creation, not a role-playing setting, though it started out as a setting for a game Zompist 'mastered a couple decades ago.

Warmaster wrote:Mark once said that anyone was willing to RPG in almea, somewhere on the board i beleive.

Huh? Anyone is willing to RPG almea?

Warmaster · Post by **Warmaster** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 1:04 pm

i know, if i could, i would set up an rpg in almea. it could be very fun

orkybash · Post by **orkybash** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 4:40 pm

I'd love to get my game on in Almea, personally. Much nicer than the Forgotten Realms!

con quesa · Post by **con quesa** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 4:50 pm

I'd love to get my game on in Almea, personally. Much nicer than the Forgotten Realms!

Could you explain that? The only RPGs that I know of are video games like Pokemon and Final Fantasy.

Drydic · Post by **Drydic** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 1:52 am

con quesa wrote:
I'd love to get my game on in Almea, personally. Much nicer than the Forgotten Realms!
Could you explain that? The only RPGs that I know of are video games like Pokemon and Final Fantasy.

Damn, you are truly missing a lot. There are people here that know a lot more than me, so I defer to them on explanations. Suffice to say that video game RPGs are newbies in the field.

Dudicon · Post by **Dudicon** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 11:32 am

Drydic_guy wrote:
con quesa wrote:
I'd love to get my game on in Almea, personally. Much nicer than the Forgotten Realms!
Could you explain that? The only RPGs that I know of are video games like Pokemon and Final Fantasy.
Damn, you are truly missing a lot. There are people here that know a lot more than me, so I defer to them on explanations. Suffice to say that video game RPGs are newbies in the field.

I'm not a big RPGer either, but I can tell you this: Forgotten Realms is a D&D campaign setting, and it was either based on a book series or a book series was based on it (I'm guessing the former). I know quite a bit about Dragonlance, another D&D setting, and Forgotten Realms is very much like it.

ran not in · Post by **ran not in** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 12:29 pm

Aidan wrote:
Huh? Anyone is willing to RPG almea?

YES!

How are we going to do this though? A collaborative role-playing story-writing campaign?

Glenn · Post by **Glenn** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 7:38 pm

Dudicon wrote:I'm not a big RPGer either, but I can tell you this: Forgotten Realms is a D&D campaign setting, and it was either based on a book series or a book series was based on it (I'm guessing the former).

Actually, the latter is the case; the Forgotten Realms began as the private campaign setting of game designer Ed Greenwood and appeared in a number of magazine articles by Greenwood, written over quite a few years. Later it became an official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons setting for TSR (now Wizards of the Coast), and campaign guides and several book series were published using it. The books were in fact one of the later stages in the process, although they have multiplied quite rapidly.

p@,
Glenn

I should note that the kind of RPG (role-playing game) being discussed here is neither a computer-based one, nor a board game, but the kind played with paper and (usually) dice, in which the players take on the role of different characters in an adventure, with one person (most often known as the Dungeon Master, or Game Master) effectively providing the rest of the world. There are many such games on the market; Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is only one of them, but it is one of the oldest and best known.

(I said "not computer-based," but there are online and E-mail versions of multi-player RPGs as well, the descendants of the old PBM (play-by-mail) games, which, amazingly enough, were played via snail mail.)

I originally played D&D back in its earlier days, in 1981 (we still have the original Advanced D&D rulebooks!). I didn't role-play for long, but my younger brother did, and still does (he belongs to at least two gaming groups in the Chicago area, and visited the last GenCon gaming convention).

Aidan · Post by **Aidan** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 1:40 am

ran not in wrote:
Aidan wrote:
Huh? Anyone is willing to RPG almea?
YES!

How are we going to do this though? A collaborative role-playing story-writing campaign?

I'm sorry, I was just mentioning that "Zompist has said anyone is willing to RPG almea" didn't strike me as a very idiomatic sentence. That's all I was saying. I am, however, forced to consider the possiblity that is, since no-one seemed to notice that's what I was doing

Yeah, Glenn sums it up pretty well.

A quick search brings up
http://ptgptb.org/0001/history1.html
which matches pretty well most of the things my Fantasy Role-Playing Gamer's Bible (Sean Patrick Fannon, 1st ed.) says.

Dudicon · Post by **Dudicon** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 8:29 am

Aidan wrote:
ran not in wrote:
Aidan wrote:
Huh? Anyone is willing to RPG almea?
YES!

How are we going to do this though? A collaborative role-playing story-writing campaign?
I'm sorry, I was just mentioning that "Zompist has said anyone is willing to RPG almea" didn't strike me as a very idiomatic sentence. That's all I was saying. I am, however, forced to consider the possiblity that is, since no-one seemed to notice that's what I was doing

No, I got what you were saying; it seemed like Mark was saying that everyone wanted to RPG in Almea.

Dudicon · Post by **Dudicon** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 8:31 am

Glenn Kempf wrote:
Dudicon wrote:I'm not a big RPGer either, but I can tell you this: Forgotten Realms is a D&D campaign setting, and it was either based on a book series or a book series was based on it (I'm guessing the former).
Actually, the latter is the case; the Forgotten Realms began as the private campaign setting of game designer Ed Greenwood and appeared in a number of magazine articles by Greenwood, written over quite a few years. Later it became an official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons setting for TSR (now Wizards of the Coast), and campaign guides and several book series were published using it. The books were in fact one of the later stages in the process, although they have multiplied quite rapidly.

Ah, I should have figured that out; after all, that's the case with Dragonlance as well. I'm not sure what I was thinking.

ran not in · Post by **ran not in** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 10:05 am

Aidan wrote:
ran not in wrote:
Aidan wrote:
Huh? Anyone is willing to RPG almea?
YES!

How are we going to do this though? A collaborative role-playing story-writing campaign?
I'm sorry, I was just mentioning that "Zompist has said anyone is willing to RPG almea" didn't strike me as a very idiomatic sentence. That's all I was saying. I am, however, forced to consider the possiblity that is, since no-one seemed to notice that's what I was doing

LOL alright I see it now. I thought I read "Anyone willing to RPG in almea?" And my answer remains yes.