maneuver, and you are waiting to see what happened, the suspense is tremendous. Will you survive? Will your plan work? Where’s that lazy postman?”
Role-playing games by mail are everything television is not. Rather than making you a passive spectator, they make you the central actor in an ongoing fantasy. You are the hero.
Games-by-mail can be competitive and at the same time extremely cooperative. Players work together to overcome adversity, solve problems, and explore the world created and controlled by a more-or-less-neutral game master.