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771: Re: [MUD-Dev] Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE...

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From: Jeff Kesselman <jeffk@tenetwork.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 19:51:04 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
At 07:15 PM 6/20/97 PST8PDT, JL wrote:
>  Much
>of what I have seen in servers (Diku-derived) resembles the "Monty Hall"
>style campaigns of D&D at its worst.  
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Yep. I see tw opreasons fro this...
(1) Its an easy, mindless game to design and write
(2) Its an easy, mindless way to play and many of the players onlien have
never really been exposed to what serious roleplay is all about.

COmbatting this phenomenon as wellas  a numerb fo other bad habits of
online roleplayers (like quest bashign and monster farming) have been key
goals in the design of oru current project.


JK
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