/> Mansa's Beginner's Guide to ArmageddonMUD 2nd Edition aka nauta expansion With common slang, cheatsheets, and so much more! image credit: grey area You can get the latest version here. You can get a premade pdf here. You can get other brews here. Made with homebrewery. What's new in the expansion of the original? Each section has been rewritten, and some sections re-organized. However, Table Of Contents some new sections were added about character reports and 3 talking to staff, joining clans and getting jobs, hunting, Welcome to ArmageddonMUD! ranged weapons, and an improved What Do I Know, with common slang and uniforms and so much more! As a What do I know? 4 bonus feature, at the very end I've included THE ULTIMATE ..................................................................5 CHEATSHEET and some sample builds. Common Slang .........................................................6 Image Credits: The images used here for the most part Common Uniforms are available here and I have used external links to embed 7 them. Credit is given in the footnotes below each image. What do I do first? However, if you would like an image removed (or have an How do I stop playing? ...........................................11 image you'd like used) please do not hesitate to ask: nauta @ ..........................12 gdb. I consider the images placeholders until I can reach out How can I tell who is a NPC? 13 and ask permission from the artists if this ever becomes How do I check my inventory? ...................... something more permanent. How do I see what I'm wearing? .....................13 Updates: How do I talk to others? 14 added How do I create a character? - 03/16/2018 17 added How do I plot? - 03/15/2018 How do I engage in combat? made Keywords its own section How do I target things? - 03/15/2018 What skills do I have? 19 improved How do I craft? - 03/14/2018 added How do I spar? - 03/14/2018 How do I emote? 22 added How do I buy & ride a mount - 03/13/2018 updated How do I hunt & explore - 03/13/2018 How do I target things? 23 moved FAQ/What do I Know? to the top - 03/13/2018 added Lostinspace's Advanced Combat - 03/12/2018 How do I change my prompt? 24 added Cheatsheet - 03/10/2018 added Sample Builds - 03/10/2018 24 added What do I know? - 03/10/2018 How do I turn on color? added How do I use a ranged weapon? - 03/10/2018 How do I GET items and GIVE you coins? added How do I hunt? - 03/10/2018 How do I get more food to eat and water to drink? added How do I get a job or join a clan? - 03/10/2018 How do I BUY and SELL things, and how do I equip added How do I talk to staff? - 03/10/2018 myself? How do I WEAR and REMOVE stuff, and TAILOR it? How do I talk to staff? How do I get a job or join a clan? How do I hunt & explore & pick plants? How do I use ranged weapons, like a bow and arrow or a crossbow? How do I CRAFT or make something? Lostinspace's Advanced Combat How do I buy & ride a MOUNT? How do I spar & train? How do I plot? Appendix A: How do I create a character? With Sample Builds Appendix B: Cheatsheet Welcome to ArmageddonMUD! elcome to ArmageddonMUD! You've read through the vast docs, figured out what telnet is --- and downloaded a new telnet client --- READ THIS FIRST! created an account, applied for a character, The one rule you should really know is this: do not reveal in and got accepted. (If you haven't done this yet, game or in character information outside the game. We follow head to Appendix A: How do I create my the one-year rule: if a character has been dead for a year, then first character?) W you can talk about them, provided you never reveal on-going Yay! What now? This guide will walk you through the next steps as a brand new player, although you might find plot information or details about magick or mechanics not already information in here of help for more veteran players too! Let's in the help files. Even the smallest detail can clue people in to start with getting help, then talk about what your character who you are. knows, then move on to the guide itself. ArmageddonMUD is focused on roleplay: it is a In the guide I will use > to indicate a command that you type requirement. We prefer to stay in character and not reveal into your telnet client. For instance, >kill dwarf. very much at all outside the game about plots, characters, and so on. This is important to us, the players, and is not just a rule from staff. Why? Let me try to explain some of the How do I get help? reasoning behind it: Some of you might be coming from a more MUSH-like We are a very friendly and open community (outside our environment, where you collaborate in an open out of characters, of course) and we offer several ways for you the character fashion with fellow players about the plotlines and new player to get help: your character motivations. On ArmageddonMUD, however, We have the helper chat on the main website and #help we prefer to have the player see things only from the in our discord channel --- so feel free to ask for help perspective of their characters, as much as possible, and we outside the game itself! rely on the code and staff to make sure that actions have actual consequences rather than ooc agreement between players. Hence, we prefer very limited ooc communication Please try to ask your question in such a way that it does not while inside the game (see >help ooc), and we also prefer the reveal who you play or where you are or what your stats are. policy of "show-don't-tell" with emotes: try to show us what your character is up to rather than telling us, e.g., emote The documentation itself (which you can search on the frowns rather than emote is sad. main website or access via the >help command) is Others of you might be coming from a more Hack & Slash designed to give you as much information as you need as a MUD environment, and so are used to seeing all the stats, AC player to stay in character and roleplay. I recommend you values, etc. and min-maxing those, and so on. However, on check out these: ArmageddonMUD most of the stats are hidden from you the player. This is to help you stay immersed and focus on your -- What You Know, character's goals. As well, this is more realistic: after all, in -- Walkthrough, real life you don't know how many armor points a particular -- >help newbie, piece of armor gives you; rather you have to find that out -- >help beginner, through experience. So too in the game. Roleplay a person -- >help FAQ. first, and the skills are there under the hood and in the You can use the >ooc command to ask for help inside the background to provide coded consequences to the actions game. Example: you perform. >ooc Hi! New player here! How do I sheathe my Fun fact: sword? ArmageddonMUD was one of the first MUDs to make roleplay a requirement in the early 90s. In fact, back in the day you didn't even have access to the basic skill levels when you What are the rules? typed >skills! If you check out >help rules you'll notice that there is a lot of This all may take some adjustment, and that's fine! Nobody emphasis on staying in character. What does this mean? will leap on you if you make a mistake and there are plenty of ways to get help outside the game! We were all new players once before. 3 What do I know? Plus: Common slang! h, so you've already had a look at What You Luir's Outpost is a place that people from either Allanak Know, and still want to know what you would or Tuluk might visit, as well as many tribal peoples. In know? Here are some thing we think a new recent times, the other Great Merchant Houses character in Allanak would know. Please note (Salarr, Kadius, and Nenyuk) together with Kurac have the additions in bold. established a militia of sorts at the Outpost, known as the Garrison. O Literacy is illegal or unknown for most people on the face of Zalanthas. It is considered treason for common What Would You Know citizens to possess such knowledge within the city- Please note that Tuluk is CLOSED to PC play. It still states of Zalanthas. exists in a virtual sense, but it is not a place that you can play as a PC. Women and men are equal on Zalanthas. There is no sexism on Zalanthas; women and men are treated Anyone in any position of power is almost certainly equally. corrupt and everyone knows it. Zalanthans tend to be very xenophobic, both with Militia soldiers (who also act as the city's police force) are respect to other species, and with respect to those paid a pittance and yet live fairly well. Everyone assumes outside their city and/or tribe. Humans, for instance, this is because they are corrupt and taking bribes.