What's Midgard all about then?
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What is Midgard?. I'm glad you asked. Midgard is a Play By Mail (PBM)(or E-mail) Roleplaying game that is based loosely around the middle ages. Each player can have up to 3 clans, each clan will have a Leader, 3 Followers and a number of retainers, and participates in various quests, combat and underhanded dealings to build up his (or her) clans strength, experience, and influence in order to move up in the world, kind of like politicians really.
In Australia the game is played on a 14 day turnaround, every 2 weeks you get your turn in the mail and that gives you a couple of days to get it completed and sent off. There are around 350 players running 800 positions which includes Clan's , Cities and EF's which are expeditionary forces led by one of your Clan's Followers. There are 19 different Factions within the game, for a brief description of each see Known Australian Factions.
As you join a Faction you are at Rank 20, as you gain more Influence, your Leader can request a Promotion to a higher ranking, Initially these Promotions are very quick but are harder to achieve at higher levels. Each Faction has a Heirarchy and Factional Goals, achieving one of these goals will increase your influence and renown and allow you to learn more skills from the Faction. The Seniors in the Merc Verk Faction have allowed me to display the Factional Powers up to and including Level 5 to allow potential Merc Verk initiates a taste of what they can acheive as a member of our Faction.
Some players choose to remain Independant, thinking that this will give them more freedom within the game,
however as long as you play within the Faction's Guidelines (which is after all what role playing is all about)
then Individual players have as much freedom as they desire as well as support (military and Information) when needed.
To help new players get a feel for the role they will be playing, our Glorious GM Nick Horgan has compiled a
Factional History for each of the Factions.
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