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Realms of Despair is a free multi-user online game (or a 'MUD') hosted in Canada using the SMAUG MUD codebase. (SMAUG is a derivative of Merc, which in turn is a derivative of DikuMUD.)

Opened to the public in July of 1994, Realms of Despair marks a significant chapter in the evolution of the Dikumud family of medieval fantasy text MUDs by putting far more power into the hands of the MUD administrators through the addition of functionality to allow modification of operating parameters through the MUD itself rather than having to manually edit configuration files, or even the source code itself. This benefit was contributed back to the MUD community through the release of the SMAUG code.

Realms of Despair itself raised the bar by focusing on developing an environment friendly to new players, a pleasing color scheme, a wide selection of races and classes, regular quests, numerous clans, guilds and councils, a dedicated server machine, and never requiring a "pfile wipe" (deleting of all player data files). Administration is governed by a "Council of Elders".

You may connect to Realms of Despair via telnet to address realmsofdespair.com / realms.game.org, port 4000.

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