Silverdawn (original) (raw)
Silverdawn is a fantasy role-playing play-by-mail game (PBM). The human-moderated, open-ended game was designed by Jim Dutton and published by Entertainment Concepts, Inc. in 1981. Players selected characters with classes such as cleric, fighter, ranger, thief, along with races and various attributes. Additional starting variables included spells and weapons. Diplomacy was not part of Silverdawn, gameplay was solo without interaction with other players. The setting was the world of Nyarna. The game's flexible narrative gaming system allowed players to choose good or evil paths. Silverdawn received two generally positive reviews in the early 1980s with one reviewer noting some drawbacks to the game.
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| dbo:abstract | Silverdawn is a fantasy role-playing play-by-mail game (PBM). The human-moderated, open-ended game was designed by Jim Dutton and published by Entertainment Concepts, Inc. in 1981. Players selected characters with classes such as cleric, fighter, ranger, thief, along with races and various attributes. Additional starting variables included spells and weapons. Diplomacy was not part of Silverdawn, gameplay was solo without interaction with other players. The setting was the world of Nyarna. The game's flexible narrative gaming system allowed players to choose good or evil paths. Silverdawn received two generally positive reviews in the early 1980s with one reviewer noting some drawbacks to the game. (en) |
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| dbp:designer | Jim Dutton (en) |
| dbp:genre | dbr:Play-by-mail dbr:Role_playing |
| dbp:language | English (en) |
| dbp:materials | Instructions, order sheets, turn results, paper, pencil (en) |
| dbp:mediaType | dbr:Play-by-mail |
| dbp:name | Silverdawn (en) |
| dbp:players | No limit (en) |
| dbp:playingTime | Open-ended (en) |
| dbp:publisher | Entertainment Concepts, Inc. (en) |
| dbp:system | Human-moderated (en) |
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| dbp:years | 1981 (xsd:integer) |
| dct:subject | dbc:Play-by-mail_games dbc:Multiplayer_games |
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| rdfs:comment | Silverdawn is a fantasy role-playing play-by-mail game (PBM). The human-moderated, open-ended game was designed by Jim Dutton and published by Entertainment Concepts, Inc. in 1981. Players selected characters with classes such as cleric, fighter, ranger, thief, along with races and various attributes. Additional starting variables included spells and weapons. Diplomacy was not part of Silverdawn, gameplay was solo without interaction with other players. The setting was the world of Nyarna. The game's flexible narrative gaming system allowed players to choose good or evil paths. Silverdawn received two generally positive reviews in the early 1980s with one reviewer noting some drawbacks to the game. (en) |
| rdfs:label | Silverdawn (en) |
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