I don't understand code, technical stuff. What I understand is what
kind of game it is in terms of setting, character, what you can make your
character like and do, whether the staff are good and care about players or are
on some God-complex trip wanting an ant-farm, how friendly or not the player
base is. That's what I've been trying to figure out.
I know that with two exceptions, every MUD of the 200 I've
guinea-pigged for myself hasn't fit cause they seem far too grindy for me, and
not dissing that this works for so many others. I just got tired of stabbing
things or smashing em.
What I've fallen in love with in the two games I've stuck it out with
is being able to have role-play, straight-up being able to play a character for
her story and what she is in relation to the setting and other characters and
herself. On Lensmoor I built a caterer and restaurant-owner who only did
combat to make the money and get the resources like meat and leather to make
dishes, and who became a fashionista and designer who also only killed when
material needed to be made of fur or bone for corsets. On Ateraan I've been
playing prilmarily an academic socialite who spends a lot of her time with
friends and lovers when she isn't showing off the latest fashion she got made
for herself by the posher designers, or showing newbies around the Mages when
they join.
I realize role-playing can mean running around in a cave in armor
stabbing and blasting with fireballs. It just isn't what I seek these days. I
even have my D and D in two groups, yes in one my Cleric does combat, but I
love having her be in between those scenes where we all do social stuff, and in
my other group I play a band of NPC merchants and servants who are all
interesting and who spend their time either trying to figure out what mess
they're currently in, bickering with each other or forming and breaking
alliances with each other ina. Reality-show style which has me laughing my ass
off even harder than the main players who hear it.
This is why I've been thinking MUSH/MUCK/MU is likely a thing I'd like
more than MUD. I'm fine with a dungeon long as there's room for my character
to not have to be one of the ones hacking and smashing, she'd rather be over
there with a pink cocktail showing off her new dress and inviting people to
hang out and anything else.
So I dunno how to find games by code-base or any of that. I just got
what I'd like to do and try out. And I'd rather be some weirdo race other than
human, but even on that I'm possibly willing to try something I haven't yet.
So I hope this makes a bit more sense of why I think I'd rather MUSH than MUD
at this point. And I freely admit my web searching skills are crud, or maybe
the web's gotten harder to search, etiher way I had an easier time finding
games to try out a year ago, so is why I am asking on here. -- Thanks, Cynthya
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