LegendMUD Newbie Guide

Chapter One: Getting Started

"Upon first arriving in that mysterious land, the first thing I did was step into a puddle, ruin my boots, get run over by a passing carriage, lose my hat to a thieving urchin, and then fall flat on my face in front of a gaggle of giggling ladies with portmanteaus..."

   Thanks for giving LegendMUD a try. Feel free to ask any questions you may have any time you are online.

The following is an introductory guide that we hope will help you get started. The world of LegendMUD is a complex game system and has a daunting amount information to learn. By the same token, it is an endlessly rewarding, never boring universe. Stick with it and you won't be sorry.

An image of Doubting Thomas, from the Bible Moralisee: Paris, c.1235-45

Table of Contents

THE PLAYER CODE OF CONDUCT
THE BASIC PREMISE BEHIND LEGENDMUD
THE FIRST THINGS ANY NEW PLAYER SHOULD DO
FAST START TIPS FOR THE EXPERIENCED MUDDER
TIPS FOR THE NOVICE MUDDER
WHAT IS CONSIDERED CHEATING?
INTERACTING WITH OTHER PLAYERS--WHAT'S NOT ALLOWED?

  • HELP CHANGES lists the major differences from stock DIKU and MERC muds and some of our reasons for such changes.

  • Read HELP SKILLS and HELP MAGIC, neither are standard.

  • If you're interested in playerkilling, or playerstealing read HELP CLANS.

  • Read HELP CHEAT. We do not allow multiplaying or equipment passing.

  • Also read HELP RENT. Don't leave the game using QUIT Y. if you want to keep your stuff. LegendMUD has no rent fees, but a limit on the value of the items you carry. If you cannot save successfully, you run the risk of losing everything if the mud crashes or if you lose link and are auto-rented. We keep a save log and it has final say in cases of reimbursal requests.

  • Note that CONSIDER gives a level comparison only. For a more detailed comparison, the judge skill, anatomy skill, and judge spells are useful.

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    TIPS FOR THE NOVICE MUDDER

  • What if I'm STILL completely and utterly lost even after reading this? Don't give up completely. Some of our best players started out quite wet behind the ears. If all this theoretical talk escapes you, log in, and CHAT that you're new to muds and would like some help in learning how to play one. Type WHO or WHOSHORT to see if any of the immortals are online (they're the ones at the top of the list with their title in brackets in front of their names, like [ PR ], or [ Admin. ]). Or you can look for mortals with NEWBIE HELPER or NH in their title. You can see the titles of all visible mortals and immorals by typing 'who'.

  • A quick summary of useful HELP topics is:
    ABBREVIATIONS BLEEDING CHANGES CHEATING
    CLANS CREDITS DEATH DIKU
    DEATHTRAP ERA EXPERIENCE FOOD
    HOMETOWN MERC MOTD NEWBIE
    RECALL SKILLS SOCIALS STATS
    STORY SUMMARY TICK

  • What common commands are used on MUDs? A good quick reference guide for the basic commands used on LegendMUD is to type HELP and it will bring up a quick page summary of commands and useful help topics. Also HELP SOCIALS brings up a list of the commands used in social interaction like SMILE, HUG, BONK, etc.

  • Whom should I ask for advice on how to play the game? An immortal or other players should be able to answer your questions on how to play the game. Remember PRAY is an emergency channel to the gods. Only they hear it. CHAT goes to everyone on the whole mud. To turn Chat, Info or Auction off, simply type CHAT INFO or AUCTION with nothing else. TELL person message can only be heard by the person to whom you direct the tell. SAY message can be heard by everyone in the same 'room' with you. YELL message can be heard by those nearby.

  • Whom should I ask to help with playing the game? Immortals can only explain how things work, not give in-game advantages to players. This includes things like loading NPCs for you to kill, giving you equipment, healing you, transferring you around, telling you your stats, telling you skill prereqs, telling you the steps to quests. So you should ask another player to help you play the game.

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    WHAT IS CONSIDERED CHEATING?

  • The LegendMUD Player Code of Conduct covers the basics for everyone.

  • LegendMUD does NOT allow multiplaying. You can have more than one character, but _only one may be online at a time_. Quitting several newbies merely to acquire gold and/or equipment is considered cheating. Trading equipment between your own characters, by dropping equipment from one and picking it up with the other is also considered cheating.

  • Giving away excessive amounts of equipment to characters who cannot rent what they are holding is also considered a violation. It's more a violation of the unsuspecting character who is put at risk of losing any equipment, experience or gold that they may have earned on their own before they were 'helped out.' In the event of a crash ALL of their equipment will vanish and no successful saves will have been made for them in the meantime.

  • Looting player corpses is also considered against the rules, UNLESS you and the player whose corpse you are looting are BOTH clanned. In the case of clanned characters stealing from clanned players' corpses, the 'legality' of it is up to the clans involved. Taking equipment from a clanned player's corpse and handing it to an unclanned character is also not allowed as the clanned character has no recourse.

  • Only one player should play a given character. They may be permanently given away, but sharing a single character between two or more players is also considered cheating Asking gods to fix, tell, or change your stats or even skills is considered cheating, as is getting them to load items or mobs for you.

    Any players caught cheating will be dealt with on an individual basis. The basic violations listed above are all call for character deletion. Punitive actions include any and all of the following: removal of equipment, alteration of stats, denied access to mud commands, denied access for a character, deletion of character, demotion of level status, banning of a site if repeated violations occur with multiple characters. We don't like to have to use any of these options, but remember we that can and have.

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    INTERACTING WITH OTHER PLAYERS--WHAT'S NOT ALLOWED?

    LegendMUD has simple rules for interaction between players.

  • DON'T HARASS ANYONE -- IF YOU'RE ASKED TO STOP, STOP.

  • DON'T ACT LIKE A PKILL ENABLED CHARACTER WITH A CHARACTER THAT ISN'T PK ENABLED

  • DON'T LOOT NON-CLANNED PLAYER CORPSES

  • DON'T USE EXCESSIVE AND PROFANE LANGUAGE ON PUBLIC CHANNELS

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    On to the next chapter!