From cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu  Sun Feb 19 18:24:23 1995

| Adventure content: Please rank the following in order of their personal 
| importance to you. Provide reasons and details, if you wish.
    -  Character development in terms of personality and history
    -  Interaction with other PCs
    -  Interaction with NPCs
    -  Intrigue
    -  Discovery (exploration, experimentation, and related activities)
    -  Puzzles
    -  Character development in terms of personal power increase
    -  Participation in historical events

 I'm interested in exploring my character(s) and seeing them grow and
change. I don't really care about power levels once the character is
able to do the things that seem important to it. I'm not terribly
interested in participating in historical events because I fear that
they'll wind up with a very 'scripted' feeling. Puzzles are challenges
to the players instead of the characters; if I want to challenge
myself in that way I have a lot of other choices.

| Difficulty level: Please pick the frustration and difficulty level which you 
| find most enjoyable. Reasons, once again, are welcome.
    -  Very Easy: PCs can overcome most challenges if they aren't stupid.
    -  Easy: PCs can overcome most challenges by thinking a bit.

 I prefer a generally hopeful theme to the campaign; I am not enthused
by the idea of either a hopeless rearguard action against fate or by
getting betrayed and stabbed in the back on a regular basis. While
some may find that they have fun playing ultimately doomed characters,
I don't.

 When things come to us (as opposed to us going out and finding them,
for which the sky is the limit, more or less) I think that they should
be things that can dealt with. If a character or a situation is to go
down, it should be because it is in the character to do so or because
we have been glaringly stupid.

| Campaign themes: Is there any subject which you do _not_ wish
| treated in this PBEM? (Some people are sensitive to certain
| portrayals of the Church, for example.)

 See above; I'd like us to not be ultimately doomed more or less
regardless of what we do. I'm otherwise generally uncaring.

| Game mechanics: Please pick the level of game mechanics, and randomness
| factor, which you prefer.
    - Very Minimal: Mechanics are used as a guideline only. Play is diceless.

 I trust Lydia and I'd rather have a good exciting story that feels
right over a bunch of dice rolls and mechanics.

| Historical detail: Please pick the level of historical detail and accuracy
| which you would prefer. (Note that if the Troupe elects a high level of
| historical detail, and I go out and research the stuff and put it on the
| WEBpage, I _will_ expect you to read it and use it in play.)
    - Accurate: History and details are reasonably researched and used.

 History is interesting and useful to set the scene, provide the
backdrops, and create a feel of the place and the era, but it should
not take over from the characters and the stories they create.

| Thanks. A note on your personal preferred style of roleplaying,
| particularly PBEM roleplaying, would be appreciated, as well.

 I prefer to avoid combats and bookkeeping. I find that I develop my
characters best through interaction and play so I'm in favor of having
as much of it as possible.

	- cks