Play-By-Mail Books

PBMs are different from most games by the fact that you should expect the unexpected. You receive a set of rules in the mail, rules that you've probably never heard of, you try your hand with the first couple of turns, you interact with the numerous in-game personalities, you have fun. This sort of game does not need a guide. Half the fun of such game lies in figuring out the details of the rules, the EXPLORATION of your freedoms. If you buy a guide to a PMB, first of all you will have an unfair advantage over other players, second of all you will ruin the game for yourself. Buy at your leizure only if you want to acquaint yourself with the genre, not with the game. As for the GUIDE TO PBMs, I'm waiting for it with all my heart so I won't have to play a macabre version of a "search and destroy" game as I'm trying to find another game to join.