Every room is written by hand.
Age of Dragons is a MUD: you connect with a client, read where you are, and type what you do. Its builders have written the world room by room for nearly thirty years, from the vallenwoods of Solace to the streets of Sanction.
The Inn of the Last Home A large room with a plush carpet and people milling around in it stretches out to the north. This in the Inn of the Last Home. The Inn is a large building resting in a massive vallenwood tree. The beams above you appear sturdy and the floor is made of a very hard wood. [ Exits: n e s w ] <hp:20/20 mv:84/84 > north Among Some Tables This is the area of the Inn where people sit and enjoy their food and they eat, drink, and be merry. A few large tables are set up around the outskirts of the room, and more smaller ones fill in the center. Just to the north of this area if a large fireside that heats the inn on nights when it gets cold. [ Exits: n e s ] <hp:20/20 mv:83/84 >
Magic you memorize
Wizards and clerics study their spells and prepare them before an adventure, as in the books. There is no mana bar.
Names you learn
Strangers appear as a description until they introduce themselves. Who you know is part of who you are.
A world to explore
119 zones across Solamnia, Abanasinia and Taman Busuk, from training pits for new adventurers to the Onyx Obelisk.
- The website has pages about places now, starting with Solace and Crystalmir Lake. Each has a description, how to get there, a map and a few things worth knowing before you go, without giving away what is there to find. Follow the links on the website's World page.
- Palanthas and Sanction have pages on the website too, each with the city's whole map.
- Mudlet can draw a map of the world as you walk. The game now speaks GMCP, which Mudlet and other current clients use for maps, gauges and chat windows. Install the mapper package from the Play page of the website and type LOOK. HELP GMCP tells you how.
- GROUP now describes each member in a sentence: how hurt and how tired they look, with hit points and movement in brackets, and the experience they need for the next level (xpn). For example: Alma is in excellent condition [120/120] and is brimming with vitality [80/80] and [19589 xpn]
- The High Clerist's Tower is open. On the road to Palanthas, where the Tower guards the pass, a gate road now climbs north to the fortress of the Knights of Solamnia. The Blue Dragonarmy has it under siege: help the knights hold the walls, raid the siege lines below them, or go down through the crypt into the vaults beneath the Tower, where what the Dragonarmy wants lies behind traps and a sealed door. The walls and the siege suit levels 13 to 20, and the vaults 16 to 22.
- Silvanesti, the elven nation, is open. Where the road from the Plains of Dust turns north in the dark forest, a trail marked with a carved leaf leads east to the Kirath, the elves' border rangers, who keep a camp at the forest's edge. Past them the forest dreams King Lorac's nightmare: the trees weep blood, the dead walk, and the empty city of Silvanost waits across the river beneath the Tower of the Stars. Levels 12 to 30.
- HELP ZONE SILVANESTI tells you more.
- The caves around the Rogue Encampment are open at last. In the mountains above the road from Sanction to Khur, trolls, a bugbear shrine and a kobold warren dug around a vein of gold have moved into tunnels the camp cut years ago and never used.
- They are for levels 13 to 20, and the camp cook sells roast goat.
- HELP ZONE ROGUE ENCAMPMENT tells you where to find them.
- The school's portal no longer leads to Thorbardin. Reach the dwarven kingdom on foot: south through the wicket door in Pax Tharkas' South Gate, or north to Southgate from the hills on the road to Tarsis. HELP ZONE THORBARDIN lists the ways in.
- GROUP now shows numbers: each member's hit points and movement as current/maximum, a bard's presence, and the experience a player needs for the next level. It used to describe health and tiredness in words.
- HISTORY TELL and HISTORY GROUP now show your recent tells and group talk. They were listed before but always came up empty.
- You can play in a web browser now, on a computer or a phone, with nothing to install: press Play now on the website, or go to https://aodrekindled.com/play-now.html. MUD clients work as they always have.