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Multi-User Dungeons, or [[MUD|MUDs]] for short, are essentially the forerunners to modern [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]]. Their primary distinguishing feature is that they utilize a text-based interface similar to [[Interactive Fiction]] games, but still allow dozens or even thousands of users to play at the same time. Interestingly, [[Multi-User Dungeon
Despite the current popularity of [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]] with flashy extra features like graphics, MUDs are still popular amongst certain groups, since they are relatively easy to maintain, require little to nothing in the way of installed programs, and are almost always free to play.
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Since the designers don't have to worry about rendering images or sounds for their content (most objects, creatures, and effects are described by a few lines of text and/or code), MUDs can get extremely in-depth, ''and'' extremely complicated. Expect different effects for eating, drinking, sleeping, resting, hiding, having a wound on a certain body part, being blinded, stunned, underwater, in the vacuum of space, in the faerie dimension, flying, or just tired. The ability to forge your own weapons, speak different languages, buy or build your own house, marry another player, declare another player attack-on-sight, worship different gods, and start your own guild are all fairly standard. The emotes list can often get into the hundreds, and if none of them suits, you can even improvise with custom emotes. And that is not even getting into the combat skills, spells, proficiencies and other statistics you can learn and improve upon.
Variants include the more free-form [[MUSH]], often called a [[Multi
Compare [[Interactive Fiction]], aka [[Text Adventure]], which are script-oriented games. Contrast [[Point and Click Game|Point And Click]] [[Adventure Game|Adventure Games]], more graphical scripted games which may also use a fixed-room format or [[Text Parser]].
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* [[Atonement RPI]]
* [[Cthulhu MUD]]
* [[
* [[Flexible Survival]]
* Genesis LPMUD
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* [[Materia Magica]]
* [[Mega MUD]]
* [[
* UOSSMUD
* [[Retro Mud]]
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* [[Legends Of The Jedi]]
* [[Unwritten Legends]]
* [[The Eternal City (
* [[The Inquisition Legacy]]
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