[Neurrone]

Oh yes. It was one of my formative childhood experiences. My first mud was Alter Aeon, but I haven't played in almost 10 years. I enjoyed myself during the 5 years or so that I played and got to know a lot of people. The first first thing I ever programmed was a bot to automatically heal group members.

Then Empire Mud, but I left due to disagreements with the admin. I loved the concept but it didn't really have the playerbase to support it.

More recently, I was on Procedural Realms. But I was affected by 3 separate instances of data corruption / loss, the last of which resulted in an unplanned pwipe since there were no offsite backups and the drive on the server failed. Years of progress gone due to lack of backups, so I'm never going back.

Ever since, I've been trying to find something else. Perhaps I'm just getting older but I don't have the patience to grind that I once had, which rules out most hack and slash muds. These days, I prefer something with interesting quests, places to explore and mechanics.

What muds do you play?

[cess11]

Neat. I mostly play Discworld MUD, which isn't very often due to small kids these days. It's a good all-rounder, has both fine grind and massive amounts of quests, exploration and crafting. Over the years I've become friends with many screen reader users there, and some of them were the fastest hunting group leaders I've seen.

http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/

[Neurrone]

I tried it briefly but bounced off after the tutorial finished, I couldn't figure out what to do.

Is reading the books required for enjoyment? I haven't read anything from the Discworld series.