Playing a Game by E-Mail and ICQ

Chat Program Download

by David Blake


The hardest thing about any game is the difficulty of gathering all the players in one area. Most of the time, and it happens, things come up or the player can not make the trek to attend the scheduled game.

Now, with the electronic age upon us, we can now not only play RPGs with our regulars, but also with people from all over the world!

Through the computer (and it makes no difference which type of system you may have) you have the options of E-MAIL to write and also send files (attachments) to literally anyone in the world. However, E-MAIL is slow compared to the chat programs, especially a chat program called ICQ. This program combines the features of e-mail, file transfers and chat all in one little package.

I believe that we can have some very exciting and fun games through such a program. ICQ is free to anyone and all you have to do is to download it and install it. ICQ is available in both windows formats and they have a Mac version.

If you want a copy of ICQ just send me e-mail at phoenix@terraworld.net and I will send you the link or the file itself.

After you receive and install the program, then maybe we all can get together on ICQ and maybe actually have a game. What do you think??

My ICQ number is 12728588.


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