Do any of you play on an Amber themed MUSH/MUD/MUCK?
AmberMUSH was great until it died a slow, slow agonizing death because of staff apathy. (And if you looked at my username and said 'hmm'... yes, I am the player of Crimson Cragvale.)
Patternfall was cool but I never really played there much.
Shadow(Shadow Storm?)MUSH was pretty short lived. I played Pyrus there.
Chronicles of Amber had an awesome first run and is getting ready (i.e. setting up) for another run. In the first run I played Luke, Vahe, Gabriel and assortment of staff/non-staff NPCs. *edit* And, duh, I was Crim as staff.
Road to Amber is alright. The code system is a little too complex in that there's code for /everything/. And I, personally, find it a little confusing to keep track of everything. I am intrigued, however, by the hierarchy of their staff system. Currently the only character I have there is Eis but because of RL I don't get to play him much currently.
Are there any I missed? Surely there are...
Years and years and years ago; I'm talking like 14 years ago now.. (my god, was there an internet back then?!), I was on AmberMUSH big time. Got to be pretty huge as a mover and shaker in my own time, before I lost interest.
RPGPundit
I would argue AmberMUSH died because of its absolute consent design. It is a seriously double-edge sword that ended up bleeding the game dry.
Never tried any of the other Amber games.
(And I also tried Amber about 14 years ago... Christoph here. Boy, remembering some of my early days MU*ing... (cringe))
Quote from: RPGPunditYears and years and years ago; I'm talking like 14 years ago now.. (my god, was there an internet back then?!), I was on AmberMUSH big time. Got to be pretty huge as a mover and shaker in my own time, before I lost interest.
Who did you play? A lot of the 'dino' names stuck around as legends... I'm wondering if I've ever heard of you.
Quote from: WillI would argue AmberMUSH died because of its absolute consent design. It is a seriously double-edge sword that ended up bleeding the game dry.
I can agree with that, yes. The consent rules there often made me pound a fist into my desk. Especially when I was playing a blood thirsty necromancer who had the stats and powers to totally decimate when he had to. Now, I never asked for death... but there were a few times I asked for something really nasty. Sometimes you'd get a nice person who'd play along and other times you'd get someone that was totally revolted and threatened to turn you into staff for being 'too gruesome'. It probably didn't help that Crimson's mentor was Romneous.
Another problem I found on AmberMUSH was that TS (tiny sex) ran /rampant/. There's nothing wrong with a little TS now and then (personally I abstain. Don't like it) but when that's your only goal when you log on that's just... ugh. Especially when the playerbase is dwindling. Makes it hard for the people that actually log on to play Amber to find RP.
Crim,
Man it's good to 'see' you. I played on the first Chronicles and have a couple of active characters on The Road. I have already set up a character for the second Chronicles. Look me up sometime.
It wasn't a mush, but I did try running an amber drpg themed irc rp channel called "Hotel Amber." Sadly, Hotel Amber ( or HA as we called it)only lasted for 6 months or so.