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by cess11 328 days ago
Neat. I mostly play Discworld MUD, which isn't very often due to small kids these days. It's a good all-rounder, has both fine grind and massive amounts of quests, exploration and crafting. Over the years I've become friends with many screen reader users there, and some of them were the fastest hunting group leaders I've seen.

http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/

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I tried it briefly but bounced off after the tutorial finished, I couldn't figure out what to do.

Is reading the books required for enjoyment? I haven't read anything from the Discworld series.

After the tutorial, if you choose morporkian as language and Ankh-Morpork as starting location you'll be put in one of the busiest places in the world, outside a bar. Either outside or inside you'll find people who can help you get started. The 'say' command says something to the entire room, and 'tell username message' sends them a private message.

There's also a newbie group chat where you can ask for help, the syntax is 'newbie' followed by your message. It'll go away once you get too many levels in your skills.

A drawback with Ankh-Morpork is that it has cops, they might interfere if you decide to attack something that isn't a rat or cockroach or somesuch, but if you get caught and put in jail you'll eventually be released. Getting killed is a bit worse, you either waste your experience points by getting a raise from an NPC, or send a message to a particular type of priest that can resurrect you.

Thanks, I'll try this out again sometime.