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LegendMUD Expies
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LegendMUD Expies
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Each award listen below is a link to a more detailed explanation of the reason for as well as the "award" associated with each. Not all of these will have been given each year and may not continue to be given every year in the future. The Award categories and individual awards are customized each year based on events and the nominations.
Each year, the Expies nominations are opened to everyone in the LegendMUD community. Ballots are built from the nominations received and the final votes are open to all members of the community. The final results reflect the opinions of the immortal staff only in as much as they also participate as members of the community in the nomimation and voting process.
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Most Helpful This award is given to the person who shows the greatest energy and skill at helping others in need. Award: whois, pretitle
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Best Clan Given to the best organization, be it pkill clan or roleplaying clan.
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Best Guildmaster Given to an individual for their past or present leadership of a clan. Award: whois, pretitle
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Best Roleplaying Melodrama Given to the best group roleplaying performance during the past year.
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Best Supporting Player in a Roleplaying Melodrama Given to the best performance by a peripherally involved character or mob. Award: whois, pretitle
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Most Memorable Wedding Honoring the roleplay wedding of the year.
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Best Male Roleplayer Given to the male character displaying the best roleplay. Award: Whois, pretitle
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Best Female Roleplayer Given to the female character displaying the best roleplay. Award: Whois, pretitle
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Best House In honor of the most creative use of a house, furnishing, decorating and skill in matching what is available to their personal roleplay. Award: coupon
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Best Hack 'n' Slasher Given to the scariest, most efficient killing machine, the Hack 'N' Slash award is given to the character whose play has shown mastery of and great delight in the gaming aspects of the mud. Award: Whois, pretitle
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Best Death Given to the best death, be it specific death on a specific time, or string of deaths, or oft-repeated circumstance. Award: coupon
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Best Male Mud Citizen The citizenship awards are given to the male character -- and the player behind the character -- whose presence is regarded as most valuable on the mud, exemplifying the view of the mud as a social microcosm. Award: Whois, Pretitle
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Best Female mud Citizen The citizenship awards are given to the female character -- and the player behind the character -- whose presence is regarded as most valuable on the mud, exemplifying the view of the mud as a social microcosm. Award: Whois, Pretitle
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Best Strung item This award goes to the character whose use of a strung item award is most creative. Award: coupon
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Best Player Equipment Theme For the character whose clothing and equipment best fits their RP persona. Award: whois
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Best Warcry Goes to the best personal message used in the warcry skill. Award: coupon
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Best Description Given to the character who makes the best use of the description options available -- including their short, long, and extra (look-at) desc. Award: whois
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Best Illusion Given in honor of the most creative or best use of the illusion spell.
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Most Likely to Succeed Given to the character whose skills -- be they economic, social, or political -- are most likely to bring about greatness throughout their life. Award: Pretitle
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Most Sportsmanlike Conduct in Pkill This award is given to the individual displaying the best sense of fair play and good conduct in use of the playerkilling system. Award: Pretitle
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Slander Memorial Award Given to the character who had the greatest difficulty getting started, this award is in honor of Slander, whose difficulties levelling and time spent as a low-level character were both excessive. Award: Pretitle
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Most Likely to Help a DT/Overrent Victim This award is given to the person most willing to assist fellow players whose characters have fallen on hard times. Award: Whois, Pretitle
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Most Helpful to New Players This award is given to the person who shows the greatest energy and skill at helping newcomers to learn the game system and become oriented to the community. Award: Whois, Pretitle
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Elessar memorial Award given in memory of the immort who helped create the historical concept of the mud, is given to the area which best represents history. |
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H.G. Wells Medal goes to the area you would most like to visit in real life if you were capable of time travel. |
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Best Room goes to the single room in an eligible area with the nicest description, atmosphere, or other superior qualities. Note that |
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Best Item goes to the item you feel has most enhanced the game; not the best in stats, but most useful, most interesting, prettiest, cleverest. |
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The Special Vampy Award for Best Mob goes to the best mobile. Best not as in toughest, but as in Best. You decide what that means |
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The Special Lampy Award For best Quest goes to the coolest quest. Any quest found in an eligible area is valid. |
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Best Special Effect goes to the niftiest special effect, echo, or mob behavior |
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Best Death Trap hould be self-explanatory. |
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Golden Squirrel Award goes to the mob who best exemplifies the spirit of the vorpal squirrel |
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Best Area (overall) is given as an award for the best overall area added during the time frame. Considerations should include quests, game balance, writing, design, etc. |
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Best Writing given to the area that has the best feel based on the writing. This does not mean the most verbose but the most appropriate for the atmosphere. |
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Best Housing given to the area that has the most attractive and appropriate housing. |
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Best Area update goes to the area that was most improved over the year in either a single update or a series of updates. |
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Immortal You Are Most Likely to Ask for Help When the going gets tough and you need a helping hand, this is the Immortal most players are looking for. |
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Best Poofs Awarded to the Immortal whos poof is superior to all other. (Note: Immortals often change their poof's regularly, please specify a specific poof not just 'Rufus' poof') |
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Snazziest Dresser Awarded to the Immortals with the best, or at least the most interesting sense of style. |
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Best Builder Goes to the immortal whose body of work in building areas is most worthy of the award; you can check who built what by typing AREAS within the game. |
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Best Administrator Goes to the immortal whose work as an administrator of the mud has best kept the mud going. |
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Best Public Relations Liason Goes to the best PR immortal for work in RP, games, The Legendary Times, strings, player description registration, assisting players, the lecture series, the Expies, the Q&A, the WWW pages, etc. |
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The Sadist for Best Coder Named after one of Legend's architects, the Sadist is awarded to the coder(s) whose Mud server code, not mob code has shown them to be the best in the business. |
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Best GameMaster Awarded to the Immortal from any department that over the year has hosted games in a superior fashion. |
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Coolest Head in a Crisis For calming things down on chat, bringing us through chaotic circumstances, etc. |
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Best Mediator Awarded to the Immortal who is the best at conflict resolution between individuals. |
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Best Code project Awarded to the best project and the coder who worked on it from the past year. This award is specifically for large projects |
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Best New Code Feature Awarded to the best new feature and the coder who worked on it from the past year. This award is specifically for small, but still new, code updates. |
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Best Code Improvement Awarded to the best current code improvement and the coder who worked on it from the past year. This award is for current features that have been updated and/or improved. |
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Best Bug Awarded to the best(worst?) bug and the coder who created it from the past year. This award is to honor the most exciting, fun, explosive, and glorious muck-ups a coder could ever accidentally produce. |