with their move, swapping addresses. Pretty soon they have a mailbox full of personal, passionate mail.
“One of the fascinating things about play-by-mail games is that the backgrounds of the players are so diverse. Your allies may include a student, a county sheriff, a physicist, and a Shakespearean actor, but you won’t often know, or care.
“The hardest thing to describe about play-by-mail gaming is the
intensity of the experience. You start out wondering why any sensible person would pay three dollars to play a game, but within weeks you are haunting your mailbox, waiting for your next turn. When you are under attack, or you have just sent off a tricky