Summer Reruns – TorilMUD

Life has conspired to make this a quiet week for blogging.  I’ll get to why that is later in the week.

In the mean time, rather than just let days go by with nothing, I am going to fall back on the grand television tradition of summer reruns.  I am going to go back to a classic theme, TorilMUD, and call out some of my favorite posts.

Of course, the real problem is that I like all of my TorilMUD posts.  They are filled with nostalgia leavened with just the right amount MMO history.  Still, I think I can narrow it down to ten… links.  One points to five posts.  So sue me.

• On Greater Challenges – How TorilMUD had a “hard mode.”  Why can’t we have this in modern MMOs?

• Echoes of a Crashing MUD – How we ended up sitting for hours camping rare mobs. It was all a misunderstanding.

• The Way Questing Used to Be – There were no yellow exclamation marks in my day.

• Leuthilspar Tales – A few posts about the starter zones exclusive to grey elves. I should write more in this series.

• drag pcorpse enter moonwell – Trying to remember command syntax after getting Gaff killed.

• Of Rooms and Rooms and Rooms – 19,584 rooms, each of which I visited and mapped.  And that was only about a third of the total rooms at the time!

• The Salesman of Waterdeep – Why don’t we have NPCs like this any more?

• How Information Access has Changed – Sharing quest information used to be a sin!

• Dartan’s Portable Hole – Screw you Blizzard, this is how much stuff a Portable Hole should hold!

• 15 Years of TorilMUD – Memories of my favorite MUD, which I started playing in 1993