En Garde! in play - online and offline
There are games of En Garde! in play all over the world. Not just around a table, but also on the web and by mail. Here is a list of the En Garde! games that we know about - if you know of any others, e-mail En
Garde! games and tell us about them. (And, if you're running a game yourself, there's a mailing list for En Garde! GMs on Yahoo!.)
(In case they're new to you: the abbreviation PBM means Play By Mail and PBeM means Play By e-Mail.)
Active En Garde! games
This list was last fully updated on 29th August 2006 (but has been added to since): contact the specific GM for details on joining their game.
Game
(link to website) |
GM
(e-mail link) |
Description |
| Banana, The |
Greg Chadbourne |
Long-running website-based game. |
| Briny En Garde! |
Terry Crook |
PBeM En Garde! variant that transfers the setting to the late 18th century Royal Navy. |
| Dangerous Liaisons |
Jerry Spencer |
PBM set at the time of the religious wars in France. The game has rules for horse-racing, Parlement, spying for foreign powers, ambushes and,
crucially, the constant rivalry and interplay of court factions. Start-up and first five turns costs GBP 3, then GBP 0.50 per turn. |
| Dune |
Angelo Yang |
Back in action with a new GM, this is an online science fiction variant set in Frank Herbert's Dune universe. |
| Elan |
Carol Kocian |
A fairly standard PBeM that has gone through several GMs (and names). |
| La Regence 2 |
Denis Martineau |
French language online game run through a Yahoo! group. It took over the late Mach die Spuhl! game and has some players from that game. Well worth a look for French speakers. |
| Les Petites Bêtes Soyeuses |
Pevans |
A long-running (it started in 1986) PBM/PBeM, LPBS sticks fairly close to the published rules, but does have a few wrinkles. Costs GBP 0.50 per turn online, GBP 2 on paper, 10 turns a year. |
| London |
Ferdinand Tjakrawinata |
PBeM variant set in London rather than Paris. |
| Orleans |
Brian Jenkins |
After a bit of a hiatus, Orleans has been running since March 2005. This is a fairly standard PBeM game with plenty of added features over and above the basic game. |
| Preux et Audacieux |
'Real Secretariado' |
A fascinating Spanish-language game that has been running since March 1993. The rules have now evolved well away from their starting point. Well worth a look if your Spanish is up to it. |
| Realistas o Cardenalistas |
'Secretariado de Luis XIII' |
Another Spanish language game, this one pits supporters of the King (Realistas) against those of the Cardinal (Cardenalistas) – with the Church as an alternative career to the military. |
| Réduit à l'Essentiel |
Ash Casey |
This is quite deliberately a 'Bare Bones' game using the rules as published with no embellishments. Ash runs the game by e-mail to fortnightly deadlines. |
| The Paris Tribune |
Jon Longhurst |
Long running postal game based in a group of gamers in Canterbury (Kent, UK). The group runs all sorts of other games and events, so the website is well worth a look. |
| Under Parisian Skies |
UPS GM |
A fairly standard PBeM with plenty of added features. |
| Vatican En Garde! |
Emma Dalton |
PBeM set in Renaissance (early 16th C) Rome under Pope Leo X. |
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En Garde! games being developed
Game
(link to website) |
GM
(e-mail link) |
Description |
| TJ's En Garde! |
TJ |
Standard En Garde! PBeM that's just being set up for a group of players. The name is a 'working title'. |
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Dormant En Garde! games
Game
(link to website) |
GM
(e-mail link) |
Description |
| Death with Honour |
Scott Lewin |
Fairly standard PBeM game with some interesting additions to the rules. Re-started in July 2006, but seems to be in abeyance two years later. |
| Kingston Games Group |
Simon Smith |
Face-to-face game at the Kingston Games Group club, but currently on hold. The newsletter, Toady, is posted on-line along with other stuff about the game. |
| Parisian |
Jano Donnachaidh |
Lots of house rules add colour to this PBeM, but Jano has had problems with internet access and the game is currently "on hiatus". |
| Stellar En Garde! |
James Wooten |
A PBeM science fiction variant with "some of the feel of David Weber's Honor Harrington universe". It's been on hiatus for some time and looks unlikely to resume. |
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Defunct En Garde! games
Game
(link to website) |
GM
(e-mail link) |
Description |
| Mach die Spühl! |
|
French language En Garde! game, part of a venerable games 'zine and closely connected with a game group in Liège, Belgium. Health problems have forced the GM to stop the game. |
| Psychopath
En Garde! |
Fraser Hopkins |
PBeM game that ran as part of the Psychopath on-line 'zine. Now sadly defunct, but the GMs hope to start a new game in due course. |
| Star En Garde! |
Bob Bost |
This was the second incarnation of Star – an entertaining Science Fiction variant set in the 31st century. Sadly, Bob had to call a halt in June 2008. It may yet return with a new GM. |
| Unquiet
Slumbers |
Frank Blades |
En Garde! meets Call of Cthulhu in this PBeM set in 1920s Lovecraftian England. Sadly, it appears this imaginative game is no more, though the website is still there. |
| Variable Pig |
Jim Reader |
This veteran PBM 'zine (you can find more about Variable Pig online) used to run an En Garde! game. |
| Vive le Roi! |
Brad Martin |
Online game (based in Australia) run by a veteran of the postal games scene. It ran for nearly 15 game-years before Brad brought it to a close. |
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Warriors of Mars |
Blanton |
En Garde! adapted to the Barsoom setting of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars books. Sounds like fun, but it seems to have come to a halt early in 2007 (June 2008). |
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