What, nobody from Jellybean? JB is where I broke into MUDding, and loved it so much I never left! It started as a DIKUMUD, but the code was so friggin’ unstable they switched to SMAUG which is much more fun. After I got married, I stopped playing though…which sucks because my character (Deathscythe) had remorted already and I was having lots of fun. Come to think of it, I wonder if ole DS even still exists…dammit, now I’m all sad.
I felt this thread needed to be resurrected because MUDs are just so cool. I can definitely attribute my flunking out of my first college to one. And I know at least 8 friends that started out as engineers (like me) that graduated as something entirely different due to Mudding taking up valuable study time.
I was curious if anybody was familiar with my MUD of choice: Paradox the one that was located on the UNCC server (adl.uncc.edu 10478)
I also played TravMud (which is still up).
Just curious, thanks.
I used to play Perilous Realms quite a bit. Worked my way up through the immorts to be a Greater God. Apparently I still have my account but I have forgotten more than I ever knew about that game and now zmud is a pay client. hrmf.
Bonejack Windstalker - God of Assassins. those were the days…
I MUSH, myself. Started on DarkMetal (yes, pitty me, but I survived), and moved through the various WoD ranks. Never really satisfied until I found Champions MUSH (based, appropriately enough, in the Hero System / Champions game). Played for a while, staffed for a while, then when politics got too weird I jumped ship. I’m currently staffing in the alpha test of another Champions-based MUSH, hopefully opening for business sometime next year.
Let me guess? Voln symbol of dreams? <grin>. I can’t seem to find a 52 level dwarf warrrior in the fame lists though… assuming that your character is a female, of course. Therefore, I assume the fame lists are either out of date, as usual, or you’ve elected not to show up on them. So what do ya think about the new GSIV changes?
-Psi Cop, a fellow Simutronics Games player, namely GS3.
I used to play GS3, too, though none of my chars got above level 21, I was too fascinated with each class.
Currently, I’m working as a builder in a yet-to-be-launched MUD.
Count me in, too. I’m not quite the dino that Kelly M is – more “prehistoric rat” status, I suppose. I’ve been on DragonMud for twelve years, and counting…
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I’ve been mudding for about a year and a half now. I used to play Everquest, but it got to be too much for my computer. When i first started, i couldnt believe how fun text based gaming could be, having come from a graphic intensive game like EQ.
The first was Realms of Despair, which i played until a couple months ago, then just gave everything away and quit for the most part (I still drop in to say hi now and then). I’ve been bouncing around alot lately, unable to really stick with one mud for long. Materia Magica for a month or 2, Aardwolfmud most recently, and at least 20 others just to sample them.
Haven’t tried Legacy of the Dracon (Legend? I’ll go back and look after i post) , nor Nanny. I think i will though.
I got sucked into a MUD named DarkLord for almost two years… MUDs are a godsend when one is consigned to the hell known as 56k. After a while it just got pointless - there were too many other things going on in my life to justify getting that next level.
Well, I’ve been playing some form of text game for the past four years. I used to MUD obsessively at Realms of Despair, now I MUSH obsessively at Otherspace. Sometimes I’ll still MUD, but that’s pretty rare. About as rare as seeing sunlight, or breathing fresh air, or anything that falls into the category of “Real Life.” 
My old downstairs neighbors were serious MUDders. They were smart healthy guys in their twenties, and this Mud thing was keeping them inside all the time, everyweekend, rain or shine, all day, so their skin stayed pasty white and their eyes had that sunken I-can-get-by-on-3-hours-sleep-really look. They had extra phone lines installed so all of them could play at the same time. They were in total denial that it was devouring their souls; they always said “MUD is fun! It’s great! you should try it! come over to our side…” but somehow I managed resist getting sucked into the vortex. Be very careful.
Right now I’m playing on AmberMUSH - where I’ve been for about seven years. If I want actual RP, I go text based every time. =)
Anyone heard of Major MUd? It’s quite ancient, reached its heydey about 1996 or so, D&D type game. I was very, very addicted. It pretty much ruined my first college experience, and I regret that a lot (although I later had a great college experience, so I guess things work out).
Still, I must admit, I occasionaly think about my old ranger character and the highlights of the game. Player vs. player combat was an adrenaline rush I’ve never gotten on any other type of video game, no matter how cool the graphcics, sound, whatever. However, the was a pretty small portion of the game. Mostly you just kep hitting “a(ttack) s(keletal warrior)” about 4 billion times so you could get another level, a few more hit points, and a better chance at killing your oponent in PvP.
I used to play for hours and hours a day. Played while watching TV, played while talking on the phone, even learned simple scripting languages so that I could play while I was alseep. I tried to quit a number of times, but nothing really changed till I finally went away to school and, well, I hate to say this, got a life. I came back to play one day, just to see how the old online gang was, and I was bored as hell. Never really felt any temptation to start again.
I was Bonechill, a hideous rotting corpse with all the evil accessories.
I kept the alignment at -1000 by killing small children and puppies.
I always tried to work in some actual role playing when I was in town. I’d use emotes to tell the other players that I was eating live rats. Being a thief, I’d also steal from any player stupid enough to leave things in unlocked rooms. One god(the MUD administrators) had a picnic basket I stole repeatedly. The first time, I feared divine wrath and punishment. On a hunch, I returned to the goddess’s office later. She was still absent and the basket had reappeared.
It was fun. But, there were no quests or any purpose. Each session, was just about killing enough things to be able to rent a room in the in and log out.
That, combined with the massive amount of time Medevia consumed got me to give it up.
I would like to play Bonechill in a tabletop campaign someday though.
Been mudding for years, and was a text-adventurer before I had the internet. My haunt of choice is www.valheru.com Valheru MUD, great mix of RPers, PKers and XPers. Our head coder is really amazing so the stuff he is adding these days is really beautiful in it’s detail. I am one of the imms over there and he usually checks new items on my mortals to see what they try to do with them, for example when he made a bottle of champagne my char tried to shake it, and also tried to drink from the bottle, so code was added to handle those commands.
Its a good gang over there, lot of newbies in at the moment, but they will grow 
Gimme a shout if you drop by, I am usually around.
Wow Jellybean… I played that for a bit a very long time ago…
I play LustyMud mostly… off and on for the last 13 years time permitting. I have an abundance of characters there. That place started as DartMud or something similar when it was at Dartmouth College… then it moved to Texas … it’s moved a few times over the years… We’ve followed along dutifully. I must say that I no longer stay up all night to play like we did in college though.
I also played Mystic Adventures (a merc) and had a lot of fun there … haven’t visited in a few years though.
There have been others that I played for a few months and then left but those are the two main ones.