Try
http://www.materiamagica.comIt\'s a MUD, free, quite a few races and professions, hundreds of skills and spells. If you\'re not familiar with using MUDs, this one has an entire \'newbie village\' which may take several days to get the most out of before you move off into the vast world beyond. Very RP orientated, but of course there is the occasional idiot -who doesn\'t know the meaning of the words- with whom you can have plenty of fun teasing. :]
I think not enough gamers take the MUD plunge because it can all seem very overwhelming. I enjoy graphical games *very* much and used to play nothing but 2D and 3D RPGs, and I always knew MUDs existed but it was like... \"ick, text-based, all that reading, get lost with all those commands having to type so much...\", but one day I just tried out a MUD, stuck with it for 10 minutes, and suddenly found myself enjoying it. It\'s not that much reading; most of the text you automatically learn to either ignore or take note of as it goes by. It\'s all colour-coded, which helps immensely. As for typing, all commands can be shortened, and the up arrow is your friend for repeating commands. And, then, there\'s also the option of using the zMUD client and creating clickable buttons instead of commands.
I recommend zMUD highly. It allows you to create your own clickable GUI buttons, triggers, scripts, command aliases, loads of other things, and an Automap. Though it does require quite a lot of babysitting at first, after you\'ve got the map recorded it will allow you to focus on playing the game rather than trying to remember where you are in a huge maze from mere memory.
Ahh why not... I might aswell throw a
screenie in.
