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+Play by mail Lordsawar.
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+The idea here is that you're the game master, and you're setting up a game for other people to play.
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+1. make a new play by mail game
+2. send the resulting saved-game file to the first player.
+3. have the player send back a turn file.
+4. run lordsawar-pbm saved-game-file turn-file
+5. repeat step 2, until there's a winner.
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+As game master, you can modify the scenario as the game is played.  For example, you can load the game up in the scenario editor and inject new events like a flood, or an earthquake.
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+The files aren't sent automatically, it's up to the players and the game master to send files back and forth.
+This allows for some flexibility: the files don't need to be sent in e-mail; they can be sent as instant messages, or in some other fashion.
+On the other hand it demands that the user know how to find the file they just saved, and how to get it to the right person.