MUDs

[Nightmare]

How many of you play MUDs, out of curiosity? I started one called Melmoth last night (or early this morning, being the insomniac that I am), and loved it.

Oh, for those that don't know, a MUD is usually a text-only RPG.

[fable]

I played back about a decade ago, but gave up. The program commands were very limited, the add-ons by admins were non-standard, and many of the people were only interested in talking about software.

I did join the staff at DragonRealms, though, for about four years. That's sort of an uber-MUD, with a very complex programming system that allowed for more effects than any regular MUD, MUSH, MUCK, etc, I've otherwise observed. It was fun, but got increasingly hectic as the owners forgot most of us were doing it for sheer pleasure in our spare time. They began whipping us to double and triple speed, hoping to ekk out a few more years and members before the visual MMORPGs took away their gravy train.

[Obsidian]

I used to play some, but I'm a visual kind of guy, the text based ones just didn't keep me interested. They had some great stories though

[humanflyz]

MUDs.... brings back memories of serious addiction and late-night typing frenzy. I used to play a MUD called Tempest a year ago, gave that up because I have an addictive personality and all the people that played were powergamers that doesn't really roleplay. IMO, MUDs are dying; I just don't see anyway that it can compete with visual MMORPGs.