Starfire MUD

Starfire is a fantasy MUD in open beta. Connect in a web browser with nothing to install, in Mudlet, or over telnet (TLS on port 4443). Every route reaches the same world and the same characters.

COMBAT WITH NO AUTO-ATTACK. You type every attack, and range, position, blocks and parries, armor weight and adrenaline decide what lands. Spells can be interrupted, and creatures warn before a heavy blow.

EARNED SKILLS. Weapon skills, defenses, class abilities and spells all start at rank 0 and improve only when you use them.

FIVE CLASSES, SEVEN RACES. Each class has its own resource and abilities gained by level. Each playable race has its own starting attributes.

TRADES AND AN ECONOMY. Mining, woodcutting, foraging, fishing and skinning, and the Alchemist from level 5. Four coins, haggling with shopkeepers, a bank, made-to-order goods, and coach and boat fares.

A WORLD THAT KEEPS RUNNING. The vale, the dwarven village of Emberhold, the town of Stonecross, the desert country of Jaharta and Sanctuary City. Day and night, weather, darkness, merchant caravans, quests and characters to talk to, whether or not anyone is logged in.

PLAY ANYWHERE. The web client maps the rooms you have walked and plays on a phone with a compass pad and a quick-command bar. Telnet clients get ANSI and 256 colors, GMCP, MCCP compression and UTF-8.

NEW TO MUDS? You type commands and the game describes what happens: look, north, attack rat, loot corpse. The beginner's guide at starfiremud.com walks you through it.

Free to play up to level 10, with no time limit and no card required: the whole world, every class and every trade. A subscription lets a character level past 10, and nothing sold makes a character stronger than another subscriber's.