meridian
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meridian
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About
Meridian
Role-playing
is a social hobby. It is based around
communication and story-telling. It is a
people pastime.
However,
not everyone is always able to meet up.
Geography can be a killer. For
that reason, the Meridian Gaming Group was established to create a place for
gamers to meet and arrange games over IRC or email. Its aim is to provide an English language portal
for gamers anywhere in the Greenwich Mean Time zone from which it derives its
name. Of course, this doesn’t preclude
people in other time zones or speakers of other languages; it’s just catering
to GMT and English speakers first and foremost.
The Games
The
aim is to support a variety of systems, such as Call of Cthulhu, White Wolf’s World of
Darkness (old or new) or D20 Modern. If
sufficient interest is gathered, the emphasis may shift to a more fantasy
orientated system such as Dungeons and Dragons.
The
Method
The
purpose of the Meridian Gaming Group is to create regular RPG sessions without
the constraints of geography. Hence the
group will be using instant messaging and email to conduct its gaming. The reason for this is twofold: first and
foremost, it means everyone can get a game in their own home. Secondly, it reduces the burden of suspension
of disbelief; it is much easier to imagine someone as an Elf or Dwarf when you
don’t know so much about them in real-life.
We
will be using fairly basic IRC clients to keep things simple. The basic MSN or Windows messengers that come
with most versions of Windows or an ISP / internet portal client should be
perfectly fine. Technology is very much
a means to an end!
Contact
Contact
The
Meridian Gaming Group is currently under discussion, here, on the RPG.net Forums. A
Yahoo Group has
also been established which will see more use when the games actually start.
Any
questions can be addressed in email to: [email protected]
Last revised: 04/09/2006