Kingdoms of Arcania

I played Alamaze for a lot of years, which was created by the same guy (McDowell). I think his brother Phil still runs Pegasus Productions, which owns Alamaze, unless Phil's health finally gave out. Fall of Rome looks very, very like Alamaze, but without Magic.

Kingdoms of Arcania looks to bring magic back in. McDowell has done a great job in his other games of creating balanced games with completely different starting positions, so I'd expect a pretty good game again from him.

This does look very promising. It reminds me of some play by mail games I used to play in the 1970s, but obviously some delicious advances have been made in the last thirty years. I will be checking this out as it develops.