Power's Edge

Power's Edge is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy game with diplomacy and roleplaying. Power's Edge is actually many games at once: it has multiple parallel Universes. Power's Edge was designed for "Limited Addiction, Perpetual Play": 2 turns per week, a few minutes per turn. Power's Edge is low bandwidth, modem and webmail friendly, using only email and a web browser (and PDF reader). Power's Edge has been online since June 2000. It's not very graphical; instead, Leaders receive web-page newspapers and maps by email. It's oriented towards busy people who still like to play games, but may only have a few minutes here and there each week.