[MUD-Dev] Mud Settings

[Mike Sellers]

At 03:21 PM 12/27/97 PST8PDT, Greg Munt wrote:
>The 'traditional' mud is set in a fantasy/medieval "Swords 'N' Sorcery" 
>environment. The only alternative seems to be some sort of futuristic 
>setting. (Please reply to this, if I'm wrong.)

These are certainly the Big Two:  fantasy and science fiction.  I've heard
of gothic horror, western, and 1930s gangland muds (as well as those based
on Pern, Amber, and other quasi-fantasy/SF fiction), but, as with paper
role playing games, fantasy and SF are orders of magnitude more popular
than the runners-up.  

I think this is because fantasy and to a lesser extent science fiction, are
more overtly heroic than other genres.  That is, they are more amenable to
use of heroic and anti-heroic archetypes than are the others.  


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