lone wolf MUD/MUSH?

[flunch]

Hiya all, this is my first post, and with it i will shortly introduce myself.

I'm 27 years old, a long time roleplayer, and i got into this heavily addictive stuff from getting hooked onto Lone wolf books which was quite popular in sweden at the time.

I was wondering, is there any Muds/MUSH's with a lonewolf world/theme?

Has anyone thought of starting one up? i would think that the lone wolf universe would be prime material for it?

[Dusk Fox]

I've never found one, but then, I never went looking very hard. I wish I could be more helpful.

[Ehlonna]

Hi there!
We have been making a MUD, working on it for many years, and it was devoted to the Wheel of Time setting. I personally do not like this, so I have been hoping for a long time that we could switch to something else. My friend, who does the programming and has written our new code base from scratch all by himself in .NET C# of all things! We're not familiar with the Lone Wolf setting, but we read a lot of RPG books and things for ideas, and this setting is really incredible. I found out about this site because someone said you can download these game books here, which is another new thing for me, and I'm hoping to see more information.

Right now, I am especially interested in moving in this direction based on what I have learned so far from reading the Lone Wolf Roleplaying Game book. Reading things here also makes me hopeful, since it seems if we wanted to do this, we could hopefully try a legal approach unlike other settings, by trying to get word to the owner of the franchise to ask permission.

If we could do this, it would be ultra-realistic. We don't do things like "hit points" and getting cut 100 times and surviving. You can catch frostbite. You can't go around murdering people. Untended wounds get infected. All kinds of things. We are also hoping to implement an exceptionally advanced NPC system, involving Personality types, Castes (such as MiddleClass, Farmer, Noble, which affect their attitudes and what NPCs they will talk to), an NPC conversation menu system where you have choices of how to talk to NPCs and ask about things.

This is a tremendous undertaking even if we decide to invent our own setting, especially with how much realism we have already introduced, and intend to introduce over time. Most of what is in place currently is Wheel of Time oriented. I still can't convince my friend to drop that, he thinks we have put too much into it.

Since we're neither of us knowing about the Lone Wolf things, I'm hoping we can read (or play?! hehe, it's a neat idea) these books together and learn more. It would also be wonderful if anyone would be interested to come by, and help me sell him on this idea. The other RPG that interested me in setting was called "Earthdawn", but the content on "Lone Wolf" has wowed me even more than that. It is intense and the amount of detail rivals JRR Tolkien stuff!!

I hope I am allowed to post this here. Nobody involved with our text online game gets any money or profit at all, so I hope the moderators won't consider this advertising. We would look eagerly forward to any knowledgeable person about the setting, to come visit us, and if there was any way to request permission from the owner of Lone Wolf for what would be dedicated, true to his creation in every way (even details we might not agree with!), and completely free and open without any profit at all.

I want to learn more and I think he does to, before we make a decision. Plus, we have not spoken to any of our other staff, builders, and so on about a switch. We are just interested in this setting, and if we learn enough and are convinced, this is a possibility. We are especially drawn to it and I am posting here because of this very post, which said there is no MUD for it. One thing that attracts us is picking an established setting with a fan base and lots of content, but that has few or no MUDs already on it.

We can be found at

windsofchange.xs4all.nl Port 4000
I can be reached by email at [e-mail]

Sadly I don't do programming so I can't talk about that.

By the way there is nothing stock in our MUD either so no problems with codebase from estalished MUDs, no old D&D rules or any of that, it's all written from scratch, as far as I know there is no other MUD in C# .NET!


ps this message board made my name lowercase! I'm not sure how that happened, I typed it with a capital E.

[I'm not sure what the board might have done, but there is a difference between login name and display name, so you can have a capital E without re-registering ...like this! / Your friendly admin]

[Ehlonna]

Oh, thank you I didn't know about that.
We have started a database on our MUD, since the new design is modular, allowing things to be implemented, changed, or removed much easier and more quickly without the usual hassle of old code.

We're still hoping to hear from a Lone Wolf fan. I had a big argument on its behalf last night, and managed to get a little bit. We're going to wait and see.

[Jareal]

Woah... I'm a fan of Lone Wolf and would love to play on your new MUD. I might check your WOD mud out (I usually play Achaea ). I just recently came back to Lone Wolf after finding about Project Aon just a few weeks back (previously I had read them when I was about 10). If you are indeed making a Lone Wolf MUD I would love to give a hand (although I am inept in programming - but would like to learn).

[Ehlonna]

That's great! By the way, Achaea is a huge inspiration. We're hoping to do some things pretty similar to how they have done it. I was especially swept off my feet by the books and libraries, and the Druids and their powers. We just don't want to steal from them directly, and actually we will be even more detailed, and certainly much, much more "realistic" or fantasy realism.

And there are lots of ways to help besides programming In fact, most contributers to MUDs don't know how to program. Though the head programmer would be delighted to talk to you about it, I'm sure. Right now, we are dying to have someone to really just TALK to on there, show stuff and compare it to how it would be best in Lone Wolf, what changes to make, how the RPG book differs from the original books as I've heard there are errors or changes, and other stuff.

There are hardly any people there any more, as our Wheel of Time project largely stagnated and we never did open for playing. But, at least two people are on every day. If you miss us, it is most likely due to a timezone issue, but sometimes we're on at odd times too. I'll make a point of logging in more often to hopefully catch a Lone Wolf person.

I'm still playing through these Lone Wolf books myself. I like them way more than I thought I would! I am lucky that I save a prebook copy of my scoresheet before starting each book, because I've died a lot and had to restore! There are some almost impossible fights I found in book 9, 10, and 11. I died in book 10 and 11 repeatedly.


I never found out how to post messages on the message board Tower of Sun. I'd like to put my notice there too.

windsofchange.xs4all.nl 4000

[Dusk Fox]

Every time I log on to talk to someone and help out, everyone is idle.

[Ehlonna]

Hmm if you're in Pacific time zone that is probably the worst except for Australia or something to meet us. I can't do much about that. In most of your after work time, I'm asleep as is I think everyone. I'm on there now though