Glyfair said:
You can consider a computer a medium. Then again, you can consider a computer one medium, and the internet another (of course, this means I grouped them incorrectly, since Everquest and the like would be grouped with Play by Posts).
True, but 'computer' isn't so much a medium, as it is a device that supports different electronic mediums (the mediums would be MUD, GMUD, email, forum posting, IRC, etc). That's what I meant... computer is something that faciliatates a medium, thus it may fall closer to
method (i.e., a means of conveyance).
That is, the medium is the manner in which a game is actually played and/or presented, not the tool utilized to do the playing and/or presentation. An yes, I'm aware that this is all a wee bit fuzzy, but that's largely because nobody has ever (to my knoweldge) set about codifying all of these classifications into one coherent, unified, system of definition.
People really roleplay by mail? I knew of various games by mail, I wasn't aware of any actual roleplaying done by mail.
Yep. People have been doing it since the early 1980s (most recently, of course, DeProfundis explored the idea of roleplaying via snail mail).
[Edit: I guess a good assumption to work from would be that medium represents the manner in which a game is actually played, whiel
method represents the means used to convey that medium. Not that in tabletop games, this means that medium would be 'spoken word' and the conveyance or method would be 'voice').
