Re: NEWBIE game forming - need 3

The White Wolf <[email protected]> Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:06:19 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.games.diplomacy.cat23.new-games
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Hey! Experience does NOT equal skill! (*cough* I can attest to that *cough*.)

Wolf

I'm a Firefly fan and proud! Read my fiction:
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1369632/


--- On Sat, 8/23/08, Packrat <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Packrat <[email protected]>
> Subject: [CAT23-Ngame] NEWBIE game forming - need 3
> To: "ngame cat23" <[email protected]>
> Date: Saturday, August 23, 2008, 7:42 PM
> Alright folks, turns out there are not 7 women bold enough
> to be in on a game
> so I am going to open this up a to a larger audience.
> 
> Two of the players so far signed on have limited
> experience, and one 
> of them has never played before so I am going to run this
> as a newbie
> game.
> 
> If you have little or no experience playing Diplomacy and
> would like to give
> it a whirl, send me an email and we will get a game going. 
> I need 3 and then 
> we can get going.
> 
> And, NO, David, Sean and the usual cast of experienced
> clowns, you can NOT
> play in this game.


      

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            <p>Hey! Experience does NOT equal skill! (*cough* I can attest to that *cough*.)<br>
<br>
Wolf<br>
<br>
I'm a Firefly fan and proud! Read my fiction:<br>
<a href="http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1369632/">http://www.fanficti<wbr>on.net/u/<wbr>1369632/</a><br>
<br>
--- On Sat, 8/23/08, Packrat &lt;<a href="mailto:brn2dip%40yahoo.com">brn2dip@yahoo.<wbr>com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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&gt; From: Packrat &lt;<a href="mailto:brn2dip%40yahoo.com">brn2dip@yahoo.<wbr>com</a>&gt;<br>
&gt; Subject: [CAT23-Ngame] NEWBIE game forming - need 3<br>
&gt; To: &quot;ngame cat23&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:cat23-ngame%40yahoogroups.com">cat23-ngame@<wbr>yahoogroups.<wbr>com</a>&gt;<br>
&gt; Date: Saturday, August 23, 2008, 7:42 PM<br>
&gt; Alright folks, turns out there are not 7 women bold enough<br>
&gt; to be in on a game<br>
&gt; so I am going to open this up a to a larger audience.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; Two of the players so far signed on have limited<br>
&gt; experience, and one <br>
&gt; of them has never played before so I am going to run this<br>
&gt; as a newbie<br>
&gt; game.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; If you have little or no experience playing Diplomacy and<br>
&gt; would like to give<br>
&gt; it a whirl, send me an email and we will get a game going. <br>
&gt; I need 3 and then <br>
&gt; we can get going.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; And, NO, David, Sean and the usual cast of experienced<br>
&gt; clowns, you can NOT<br>
&gt; play in this game.<br>
<br>
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