Playing Muds on the Internet by Rawn Shah, Jim Romine

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Synopsis

Approaches the topic from the viewpoint of experienced players describing their journeys to novices. Provides detailed guidance on how to join in and play these online games, embellishing the controls and commands associated with them. Discusses two of the most popular types of MUDs, namely LPmud and DikuMud and includes a brief overview of other kinds of MUDs. Contains information on the objects around these games with descriptions on weapons, armour and other items as well as helpful hints in order to be successful.

Annotation

Every Luke Skywalker needs his Yoda. And now aspiring MUD players have their own cyber-mentor with this behind-the-scenes guide to successfully stalking the dark, haunted corridors of today's most popular online game worlds. This ultimate MUD companion reveals the lore as well as the intricate customs and commands, cloaked in the secrecy of these imaginary worlds. (Communications/Networking)

Library Journal

Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs) have become incredibly popular ways for computer users to compete with hundreds of other adventurers in Dungeons & Dragons-type fantasies. MUDs have evolved, thank goodness, into social and educational vehicles, but the core of much MUD escapism is pure and simple role-playing and competing. Here, Shah and Romine essentially explore two MUDs: DikuMUD (created in Copenhagen as a virtual space filled with a number of different rooms and characters) and LPmud, originally a Finnish invention. Thanks to the authors' vast experience with the combative world of MUD, there's plenty of useful advise on how to survive, gain experience, pick up money and weapons, and even avoid death. Attributes are provided for different characters, different techniques are described to battle different opponents, and basic commands are outlined. As a special aid to neophytes, four characters have been especially set up for readers of this book for MUD experiments. If you're ready to spend about a day a week perfecting your skills in this world, this book will help keep your frustration level down and your fantasies alive.