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I've been off and on playing a DIKU-based MUD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DikuMUD called MUME (Multi Users in Middle Earth) since the early 90s:

http://mume.org/

telnet mume.org 4242

This is an amazing place; it's sort of like actually playing inside the Lord of the Rings books. The world is enormous and gorgeous. It's designed to be player vs. player (one side are the good races, like Humans, Elves and Hobbits, the other side are the evil races, such as Orcs and Trolls.)

However, evil players rarely make it west of Bree. The Shire is a big and safe Player vs. Environment area.

Here's the current global map of zones:

https://www.realms.org/mume_map.txt

The B is Bree, R is Rivendell and the Ms are Moria.




I clicked through to your map link, expecting something massive, sprawling, and Tolkeinesque. In retrospect, what I got was what I should have expected. Also, makes me grin: so perfectly typically MUD. :-)


Hah! Well said.

You need to create a character and login to the world and start walking around to enjoy the 'goodness' I described.

It's not conducive to a rapid 'check this thing out' kind of look.


Yeah, I used to mud/moo back in the day (1994-1998 probably, since that's when I was at school), but apart from infrequent ifcomp-inspired excursions, I haven't tried any lately.




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