[Discuss] Similar games

[psymann]

Tom Skibo wrote:
> Julian Bailey wrote:
>  > Sides, so far BM has the most IC/OOC distinction I've seen.
> 
> Cantyr II beat BM in that respect.  Completely different game though.

Yes, if you're after pure roleplay, then Cantr II (www.cantr.net) is the 
only game I've found that's as good as Battlemaster in that respect, and 
was the one I thought of for this thread.  Personally, I find 
Battlemaster better because it has a more interesting theme (medieval 
knights compared to just plain people wandering around making a slightly 
obscure combination of things), because the site runs a lot more 
smoothly (Cantr has had problems for well over a year with slow-loading 
pages), and because I like the descriptive-roleplay better than the 
first-person-roleplay (Cantr, in effect, is just an 
IC-face-to-face-conversation, whereas battlemaster has letters and, most 
differently, the descriptive Roleplay message option).  If you really 
love the roleplay bit of battlemaster, you might enjoy that too, though.

If you're more keen on the teamwork, battles and strategies in 
battlemaster, and roleplay is just something that gets in the way, you 
have to scroll past to get to the important stuff, and people moan when 
you muddle up OOC with IC, then the best free game I've found is War of 
Empires (www.warofempires.com) which is completely not a roleplaying 
game, but completely is a game where you work and fight in teams.  War 
of Empires has the most excellent Admin I've seen in a game, and gets 
your adrenaline going in a way battlemaster can't, but suffers from one 
single problem that Battlemaster doesn't - to do really well, you need 
to be online a lot - at least every few hours and probably more.

I've tried various others, but for roleplay, Cantr II is the most 
immersive, for excitement/battles/strategy/gameplay, WoE is best, but 
Battlemaster is the only game I've found which has such an excellent 
combination of creative roleplay with logical/mathematical 
battles/strategy, and that's why Battlemaster is the one I'd choose if I 
played only one.

psymann