I guess that's the end of my Astro Galaxy career then, although I shall be popping back in once in a while, and the beginning of a life in a mystical land called Avalon. And it's a really promising new life, I feel. I've been talking about MUDs for some time already but I guess I'll advertise it a bit more formally. Not really MUDs in general, but a very unique and spectacular MUD called Avalon: The Legend Lives.
So ... what is Avalon, you may ask.
Well, it's an online RPG ahead of its time ever since it began in 1989 as the first multiplayer roleplaying game online. This roleplaying world, which existed before the Internet and was the first online RPG game ever, thrives because of its unique world. Great sorcerers, war that can tumble years of real life history in a day, magic that can see beyond time, rituals and vast events that raise mortals to become gods! Avalon's scope is nearly infinite and anything within its walls is possible. As a text-based RPG, it will exceed all expectations: adventurers, merchants, politicians, fighters, forest-loving druids, all cohabitate in this rich, vibrant and brutal world. Avalon is an online RPG game that has always been ahead of its time. It innovates in the most remarkable ways, inventing new mechanics that you will not see anywhere else for years. Above all else, Avalon is a fair meritocracy. You may quicken your pace but you cannot achieve excellence without deserving it and excellence in any area takes time. It is an environment unlike any other, where players decide the course of history. Find any online roleplaying game today that can match Zaphod of Avalon, who 25 years ago and still sometimes today, will be in Meeting Place sharpening his axe and preparing for battle. Players today do the same as he, building on a monolithic saga to write their own names into this legendary world.
It also boasts a continuous player-driven history since 1989 (a world record)
The fantastic history of this unique world stretches back before the Internet, to 1988 when it was called Lands of the Crown, and formerly a modem-based game in England. Back then, even with only 32 kilobytes of space for the game, there were spells and PVP combat for those with fire in their bellies. It has come a long way since, with decades to expand its domain to include a long history that are no less legendary than the Ancient Greeks and Romans are to us today. Fantasy is not complete without its legends, heroes, villains and gods. The world of Avalon has these in plenty. Those who are ready, join its chorus and begin their fantasy life fresh with plenty of opportunity, as all have, to carve out their own history. The realism of Avalon is without parallel though not simply because of its age. Oh no! It is because of the passion of its players and the beauty of the fantasy world around them, that engages them so deeply as it were not a fantasy life but real, with its obsidian swords, mineheads of gold ore, cattle raising, fields of soybeans and manure, forests chirping with birds and growing trees becoming living ents, the skies parting with the power of Skymasters, great Seers controlling the invisible influence of their palantir over the world, and so much more.
There is only one way to know, though, and that is to write your own history in this fantasy world.
More features:
- It's an intriguing realm with complex governments and politics with four city-states constantly waging war against each other for control of strategic villages scattered all over the globe that produce raw commodities which will boost a city's wealth allowing them to purchase more soldiers and equip them accordingly
- Dozens of skills with hundreds of abilities each that total to about 2000 trainable abilities
- 9 professions and many more guilds, among them: Knight, Wizards, Enchanters, Cavaliers, Bandits, Brigands, Sirens, Necromancers, Rangers, Druids, Animists, Loremasters, Bards, none which is better than the other.
- A player-driven history that allows almost everything to happen - cities can get razed to the ground, as shown by the total destruction of Springdale by Thakria
- Mortals can ascend to immortality during rare events. Winners will be 'ordained' and receive a place in Olympus
- Gods have influence as well. They can become patrons of cities and guilds, they have their own religion (order) with its own followers. Offerings also have to made to them regularly or else they will lose power slowly but surely. An example is the goddess of dreams, Andromeda, who was struck down.
- Detailed learning system. After completing the basics in the school and college, you will have 20 badges to obtain which will teach you more about combat, crafting, riding animals, herbs and other features in the game, besides telling you more about Avalon's history, culture and your city's government structure.
- And much more! Visit Avalon now!
Hmm ... What else?
Something that first caught my attention was the fantastic warfare feature, where players can assume the roles of generals for their city states, commanding legions and deploying them in dozens of different formations for different situations. Not to mention the busy job of searching for and conscripting new soldiers during peace time, equipping them with armour and weapons and animals. Take the reins of history and conquer or even destroy towns or whole cities -- it has been done before, the city-state of Springdale which had been in existence for 10 real years was razed to the ground at the hands of the powerful military of Thakria. Some of the key points of legion warfare are:
- You need intelligence, and good teamwork with your fellow players to battle against other players
- Legions for cities and guilds with 50 unique skills
- Legion training, equipment, formations, sizes
- Terrain, elevation, line of sight
- Runners and carrier pigeons for remote control and reconnaissance
- Complex tunnelling and trench warfare
- Fortifications to defend and besiege with siege engines
- Arrows, catapults, battering rams, flaming oil cauldrons
- Plundering fields and commodity sheds for resources
- Razing anything to destroy historic buildings and even cities over 20 real years old
- Player based alteration of the world and its history
Interested now? Visit us at -->
www.avalon-rpg.comOr jump straight to the game at
www.avalon-rpg.com/play/See you there! My in-game name there is Kurdock, and I'm a citizen of Parrius. I would strongly suggest you join Parrius, but it depends on your choice of ideologies, really. Parrius is a place of freedom, individualism and fraternity. Mercinae is a land of justice, light, good and altruism. Thakria is a city of relentless excellence, evil, passion and domination. Silverfalls is a land of dreams, hope, despair and the unknown future. See you there!
