May 1997
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) Jon A. Lambert
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) Jeff Kesselman
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) Jeff Kesselman
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) coder@ibm.net
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) Jeff Kesselman
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) coder@ibm.net
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) Miroslav Silovic
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) Jeff Kesselman
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) Jon A. Lambert
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) Jeff Kesselman
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) Jon A. Lambert
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) Miroslav Silovic
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) Jon A. Lambert
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) Chris Gray
- Of disk swapping, database structure & project management.. Greg Munt
- Of disk swapping, database structure & project management.. Jeff Kesselman
- Of disk swapping, database structure & project management.. Jon A. Lambert
- Of disk swapping, database structure & project management.. clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Of disk swapping, database structure & project management.. Chris Gray
- Of disk swapping, database structure & project management.. coder@ibm.net
- Of disk swapping, database structure & project management.. Jeff Kesselman
- Of disk swapping, database structure & project management.. clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- More sendmail tests... coder@ibm.net
- Last sendmail test (we're up to 8.*)! coder@ibm.net
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) Jeff Kesselman
- Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) Ling
- Comments on the DB layer clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Comments on the DB layer Chris Gray
- Comments on the DB layer clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Prepositions and parsing clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Prepositions and parsing Chris Gray
- Prepositions and parsing S001GMU@nova.wright.edu
- Prepositions and parsing clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Prepositions and parsing Chris Gray
- Prepositions and parsing clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Prepositions and parsing Chris Gray
- Prepositions and parsing clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Prepositions and parsing Chris Gray
- Prepositions and parsing coder@ibm.net
- Prepositions and parsing Chris Gray
- Prepositions and parsing clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Prepositions and parsing Marian Griffith
- Prepositions and parsing clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Prepositions and parsing Miroslav Silovic
- Prepositions and parsing Nathan Yospe
- Prepositions and parsing Marian Griffith
- Prepositions and parsing clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Prepositions and parsing Marian Griffith
- Prepositions and parsing clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Prepositions and parsing Nathan Yospe
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- Prepositions and parsing Miroslav Silovic
- Prepositions and parsing Chris Gray
- Prepositions and parsing Miroslav Silovic
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- Comments on the DB layer Jon A. Lambert
- Comments on the DB layer Jon A. Lambert
- Comments on the DB layer clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- InterMOO: a high-power MOO server (fwd) coder@ibm.net
- MUD-DEV traffic report coder@ibm.net
- Random plotlines Ling
- Random plotlines Chris Gray
- Random plotlines Ling
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- Random plotlines Jon A. Lambert
- Random plotlines clawrenc@cup.hp.com
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- (fwd) A Mud Protocol (MUD Markup Language) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Game easter eggs clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Client<->mud compression protocol coder@ibm.net
- Client<->mud compression protocol Jeff Kesselman
- Introduction Marian Griffith
- Introduction clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Introduction Jeff Kesselman
- Introduction Jon A. Lambert
- Introduction clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- generic objects, behaviors Andy Davidoff
- generic objects, behaviors Chris Gray
- generic objects, behaviors Jon A. Lambert
- generic objects, behaviors clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Introduction Oliver Jowett
- Introduction clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Introduction Oliver Jowett
- Introduction clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Introduction Matt Chatterley
- Introduction Oliver Jowett
- generic objects, behaviors Ross Nicoll
- generic objects, behaviors Nathan Yospe
- generic objects, behaviors Jeff Kesselman
- generic objects, behaviors Chris Gray
- generic objects, behaviors Jeff Kesselman
- generic objects, behaviors Chris Gray
- generic objects, behaviors clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- generic objects, behaviors Jeff Kesselman
- several messages Ling
- several messages Jeff Kesselman
- several messages clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- several messages Ling
- Role-playing [was several messages] Matt Chatterley
- Role-playing [was several messages] Adam Wiggins
- Role-playing [was several messages] Matt Chatterley
- Role-playing [was several messages] Adam Wiggins
- Role-playing [was several messages] clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Role-playing [was several messages] Adam Wiggins
- Role-playing [was several messages] Nathan Yospe
- Role-playing [was several messages] Ling
- Role-playing [was several messages] clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Role-playing [was several messages] coder@ibm.net
- Role-playing [was several messages] Chris Gray
- Introduction Dan Root
- Introduction Chris Gray
- Introduction Dan Root
- Introduction Chris Gray
- Introduction Ling
- Introduction Dan Root
- Introduction Ling
- Introduction clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Introduction Chris Gray
- Introduction Dan Root
- Introduction Chris Gray
- Introduction Dan Root
- Introduction Ling
- Introduction Dan Root
- Introduction clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Introduction clawrenc@cup.hp.com
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- Introduction Dan Root
- Introduction clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Introduction Chris Gray
- Introduction clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Introduction clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Introduction Jeff Kesselman
- Introduction Chris Gray
- Introduction clawrenc@cup.hp.com
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- Introduction Miroslav Silovic
- Introduction Chris Gray
- Introduction Miroslav Silovic
- Introduction clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Introduction Miroslav Silovic
- Introduction coder@ibm.net
- Introduction Chris Gray
- RP thesis... Jeff Kesselman
- RP thesis... Matt Chatterley
- RP thesis... Adam Wiggins
- RP thesis... Matt Chatterley
- RP thesis... Adam Wiggins
- RP thesis... Matt Chatterley
- RP thesis... Nathan Yospe
- RP thesis... Matt Chatterley
- RP thesis... Adam Wiggins
- RP thesis... Chris Gray
- RP thesis... Matt Chatterley
- RP thesis... Jon A. Lambert
- RP thesis... Marian Griffith
- RP thesis... Adam Wiggins
- RP thesis... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- RP thesis... Matt Chatterley
- RP thesis... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- RP thesis... Jon A. Lambert
- RP thesis... Jeff Kesselman
- RP thesis... Jon A. Lambert
- RP thesis... Jeff Kesselman
- RP thesis... coder@ibm.net
- RP thesis... Jeff Kesselman
- RP thesis... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- RP thesis... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- RP thesis... Adam Wiggins
- RP thesis... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- RP thesis... Ling
- RP thesis... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- RP thesis... Jon A. Lambert
- RP thesis... Marian Griffith
- RP thesis... Adam Wiggins
- RP thesis... Adam Wiggins
- RP thesis... Matt Chatterley
- RP thesis... Adam Wiggins
- RP thesis... Matt Chatterley
- RP thesis... Adam Wiggins
- RP thesis... Nathan Yospe
- RP thesis... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- RP thesis... Matt Chatterley
- RP thesis... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- RP thesis... Marian Griffith
- RP thesis... Adam Wiggins
- RP thesis... Marian Griffith
- RP thesis... Nathan Yospe
- RP thesis... Shawn Halpenny
- RP thesis... Adam Wiggins
- RP thesis... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- RP thesis... Travis S Casey
- RP thesis... Ling
- RP thesis... Chris Gray
- RP thesis... Chris Gray
- RP thesis... Adam Wiggins
- RP thesis... Marian Griffith
- RP thesis... Jeff Kesselman
- RP thesis... coder@ibm.net
- RP thesis... Matt Chatterley
- RP thesis... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- RP thesis... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- RP thesis... Jeff Kesselman
- RP thesis... Nathan Yospe
- RP thesis... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- RP thesis... Ling
- RP thesis... coder@ibm.net
- RP thesis... Jeff Kesselman
- RP thesis... Marian Griffith
- RP thesis... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- RP thesis... Marian Griffith
- Distribution of Exp [was Administrative notes] Matt Chatterley
- unsibscribe Carter T. Shock
- Late introduction Wout Mertens
- Introduction Ross Nicoll
- Roll-playing Khanone@aol.com
- Disk v. Mem ashen
- Disk v. Mem Dan Root
- Disk v. Mem Cynbe ru Taren
- Disk v. Mem Jeff Kesselman
- Disk v. Mem Chris Gray
- Disk v. Mem Nathan Yospe
- Disk v. Mem Chris Gray
- Disk v. Mem Miroslav Silovic
- Disk v. Mem clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Abnother RP paradigm Jeff Kesselman
- Mud tree coder@ibm.net
- Introduction (Marian) Marian Griffith
- Introduction (Marian) Jeff Kesselman
- Introduction (Marian) Marian Griffith
- Introduction (Marian) Miroslav Silovic
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) Marian Griffith
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) Miroslav Silovic
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) Adam Wiggins
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) Adam Wiggins
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) coder@ibm.net
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) Adam Wiggins
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) Nathan Yospe
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) Adam Wiggins
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) coder@ibm.net
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) Adam Wiggins
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) Marian Griffith
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) Ling
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) Adam Wiggins
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) coder@ibm.net
- Levels (was: Administrative notes) Adam Wiggins
- Role-playing Marian Griffith
- non combat muds (was: Administrative notes) Marian Griffith
- Role-playing Khanone@aol.com
- Role-playing Shawn Halpenny
- Role-playing Ling
- Role-playing Shawn Halpenny
- Languages Chris Gray
- Languages Miroslav Silovic
- Languages Chris Gray
- Languages coder@ibm.net
- Languages Dan Root
- Languages Miroslav Silovic
- Languages Chris Gray
- Languages Miroslav Silovic
- Languages Chris Gray
- Languages Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Languages Jeff Kesselman
- Languages clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Languages Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Languages Chris Gray
- Languages Ben Greear
- Languages Brandon Gillespie
- Languages Chris Gray
- Languages Miroslav Silovic
- Languages Jon A. Lambert
- Languages clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Quoting and attributions clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Levels: An abstraction of character abilities. Jon A. Lambert
- Levels: An abstraction of character abilities. Adam Wiggins
- Administration: Subscription problems clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Languages Chris Gray
- Skills in RP games Matt Chatterley
- Skills in RP games Adam Wiggins
- Skills Ling
- Skills Adam Wiggins
- OO design patterns coder@ibm.net
- Lathander's Introduction Dustan M. Hough
- Lathander's Introduction coder@ibm.net
- A brief introduction.. ok, Nathan Yospe
- Availability of our stuff Chris Gray
- Verb binding Chris Gray
- Verb binding Adam Wiggins
- Support mud [was Languages] ashen
- Support mud [was Languages] Matt Chatterley
- Support mud [was Languages] Oliver Jowett
- Support mud [was Languages] Matt Chatterley
- A brief introduction.. ok, coder@ibm.net
- Role-playing coder@ibm.net
- The limits of system Jamie Norrish
- The limits of system Matt Chatterley
- The limits of system Jamie Norrish
- The limits of system Chris Gray
- The limits of system Shawn Halpenny
- The limits of system Jamie Norrish
- CORBA Miroslav Silovic
- Player coding and security Jeff Kesselman
- Player coding and security Shawn Halpenny
- Player coding and security Nathan Yospe
- Player coding and security clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Player coding and security Shawn Halpenny
- Player coding and security Chris Gray
- (fwd) Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- handling ambiguity, and prompts Chris Gray
- handling ambiguity, and prompts clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- handling ambiguity, and prompts Raz
- handling ambiguity, and prompts Chris Gray
- Language Adam Wiggins
- DB lock and MT models clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Virtual rooms (was: RP thesis...) Shawn Halpenny
- Virtual rooms (was: RP thesis...) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Virtual rooms (was: RP thesis...) Shawn Halpenny
- Virtual rooms (was: RP thesis...) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Virtual rooms (was: RP thesis...) Shawn Halpenny
- Virtual rooms (was: RP thesis...) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Virtual rooms (was: RP thesis...) Shawn Halpenny
- Invite/Introduction.... Jeff Kesselman
- Invite/Introduction.... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Miroslav Silovic
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... coder@ibm.net
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... coder@ibm.net
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... coder@ibm.net
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Shawn Halpenny
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Marian Griffith
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Marian Griffith
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Marian Griffith
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Alex Oren
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... coder@ibm.net
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Marian Griffith
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Marian Griffith
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jon A. Lambert
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Chris Gray
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... coder@ibm.net
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Chris Gray
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Marian Griffith
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Shawn Halpenny
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Shawn Halpenny
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Raz
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Shawn Halpenny
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Shawn Halpenny
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Nathan Yospe
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Miroslav Silovic
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Miroslav Silovic
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
[Caliban:]
> > I still think it's possible to get the social interaction of a role-player
> > combined with the detailed game world of a roll-player. Call me a dreamer..
> > but I really don't think it's that difficult.
>
> I think it might be important to realise that social interaction *also*
> needs a detailed game world... probably MORE detailed than a roll-player
> would need. While the roll-player might be satisfied with
I've played many, many, many muds. I know what I'm talking about when I
say that role-players, as a generalization, generally don't have a lot
of working details, because that's not the focus of the game. I think,
though, that we're talking about two different things...
> Cave
> You are in a deep dark cave.
> There is a goblin here.
>
> The role-player would prefer something like
>
> Deep beneath Caer Crannag
> You have penetrated nearly a mile below the surface. The sound
> of dripping water comes from indeterminate direction, and the
> walls are slick with a thin wetness. The walls stretch over you
> like orange and yellow curtains, the rock hanging in thick folds
> from the ceiling.
> A small greenish creature clad in mail peers at you with suspicion.
There's nothing I hate as much as descriptions which talk about 'you'
in them. Just a pet peave of mine :)
> The interesting thing is that the roll-player generally gets good
> descriptions like this on a MUD, but doesn't usually care. The
I can agree with this. It's more about general layout of the area and
the *stuff* you can do inside it.
> roll-player will walk into either of the rooms above and type 'kill
> goblin'. The role-player will react to the first room either not at all,
> or with some stupid comment like 'Gee, it's dark'. The second room,
> however, will usually spur a role-player to do something like lean
> against the wall and recoil at the wetness, glancing to the ceiling with
> annoyance as he tries to figure out where the water is coming from. If a
> world is logically inconsistent, the pure roll-player doesn't really
> care. He just wants to find where things are and kill them.
Hmmm. Maybe, although I think you're (once again) confusing 'roll-player'
with 'kill-happy psycopath'. An easy mistake, I know. :)
A roll-player is interested in the systems, how they work together, what
you can do. This was my main turn off to the Tiny family of muds, which
was my first experience with muds. I'd log on at 2am, there'd be no
one else online, and the 'world' was so simple that there wasn't much I
could do. You might mention LP and all it's speciality-coded little
puzzles and such in rooms. These are interesting, but still not what
a roll-player is interested in, at least as I am conceptualizing it.
A roll-player is interested in *systems*. Combat is a system. Thievery
(picking locks, picking pockets, poisons, etc) is involved in systems.
Spells are systems - fitting together the runes to create new spells, or
reagents to create potions. The roll-player thinks like this:
"Hum, if I make a dwarven thief and give him a big dex bonus, he'll be
able to practise disarming traps and creating poisons more easily, because
dwarves are incredibly resistant to poison. Oh and I'll be able to get
those gaunts of +2 dex, which should put my dex up into a reasonable range
to do thiefy things. Ah, dammit, if I'm wearing those I won't be able to
wear the spiked combat gauntlets, so I'll do less damage. Hmmm, oh, I
can make it up with the combat boots...er, damn - those things are metal,
I won't be able to sneak in them. Hmmm. Oh! I can get that autoinvis
ring to make practising steal about ten times easier. My other character
couldn't wear it because his fingers were too big. Ah, wait a minute -
dwarves are hated in the town of Thistledown, which is where the best
thief trainer is. Hmmm, I wonder if the guards there see invis?"
Etc etc etc. Really the best name for it is resource management. In
this respect it has more in common with a wargame than it does with a
role-playing game. The difference is that a character is really a lot
more personal than tanks rolling around on a battlefield - besides just
working better in the text based environment, there is a certain amount of
role-aquirement (for lack of a better term). That is, I make a big
brawny barbarian, so I'm constantly on the lookout for badass looking
axes. Someone says they've got a magical ring they can sell me and I just
grunt and beat my chest and say, 'Me no use for magic! Gimmie big axe!'
Gives it some mood, I guess - depends on the mud.
All I ask is that you know how a numbers-mud is played, what makes it fun,
and what motivates the people that play them before you start making
comments about them, which as near as I can tell are based on no research
or knowledge whatsoever. Or if they are, I'd say that the muds that you
chose to try to play as your foray into the realm of roll-playing were the
worst muds I've ever heard of. Go play Legend for a while and maybe it
will become a tad clearer. (Based on MERC, no less. Blah!) - Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Nathan Yospe
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Matt Chatterley
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Miroslav Silovic
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Ben Greear
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Matt Chatterley
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Raz
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Matt Chatterley
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Marian Griffith
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Adam Wiggins
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jeff Kesselman
- Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE... Jon A. Lambert
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- Rooms, 3D arrays, etc. Chris Gray
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- Languages Jeff Kesselman
- Internal Mud Languages Jon A. Lambert
- Internal Mud Languages Jeff Kesselman
- Internal Mud Languages Jon A. Lambert
- Internal Mud Languages Jeff Kesselman
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- Starting characters (was: Alright...) Jamie Norrish
- Starting characters (was: Alright...) Jamie Norrish
- Starting characters (was: Alright...) Jeff Kesselman
- Starting characters (was: Alright...) Jon A. Lambert
- Spoken Languages & Food [was RP thesis...] Matt Chatterley
- Spoken Languages & Food [was RP thesis...] Adam Wiggins
- Spoken Languages & Food [was RP thesis...] Matt Chatterley
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- Spoken Languages & Food [was RP thesis...] Marian Griffith
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