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does anyone (hah) play online rpg? which one is the best? and are there any to which you don't have to subscribe and pay monthly fee?

― Holly (an appletross), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

kol

― :| (....), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

LEGEND OF THE RED DRAGON

http://hellasbbs.com/public/images/dragnrgm.gif

Me and Gravel Puzzleworth are going to start playing this online.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

fuck i really liked that bbs door game rpg. i forgot the name shit. legend of the dragon or something like that.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

oh shit. yes thats it!

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't think there are any without fees.

World of Warcraft, Neverwinter Nights, and Final Fantasy XI are among the best, according to my sources.

You could always play old MUDs and BBS RPGs (like LotRD, or Tradewars), if you're interested in going back in time to 1989.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

phil, wanna start playing with me and greg? im trying to find a game online with a shitload of players so we can be slutty and kill people.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

can i do this LORD on a mac?

― Holly (an appletross), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

im all for being slutty and killing. also, lets look for a Barren Realms Elite game

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Holly, if you're fine with text-based, MUDs can be really fun. Aardwolf is the best one I found, and generally has around 300 players online.

I think there are a couple graphical ones (a la World of Warcraft) that are free, but they're mostly a bit crummy. You could always join betas?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

I am totally pumped about L.O.R.D.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

its not online, but did you ever play that pc open-source RPG called "dink smallwood" it was so awesome

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

haha yeah!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

here! dink smallwood

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Dear fantasy genre plz return my teenage years kthx.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

its not online, but did you ever play that pc open-source RPG called "dink smallwood" it was so awesome

holy shit I hadn't thought of that in ages. indeed it was awesome.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

I suggest Peasant's Quest for those with a jones for King's Quest/Zork style RPGing:

http://www.homestarrunner.com/disk4of12.html

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Phil lets Wesnoth!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

ok, how do we set it up?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

wait, i have to go to this all-you-can-eat-meat dinner in 40 mins.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

no worries, i'll do some work. afterwards? or a quickie on a small map?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

I still have Dink Smallwood in a box in storage. No pc to play it on...
Mandee & GP if I can do LORD on mac I'll play with you guys.

― xAARONHZx, EXTREME ILXOR LOOK ALL CAPS (AaronHz), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure it'll work on a mac, M said that's how she used to play it BACK IN THE DAY I think!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

ok this is ubernerdy but I just remembered I used to post on the message board for dink smallwood, and one time the main guy that designed it (I forget his name) was looking for a ROM of Time Lord for NES and I hooked him up. Hah.

― xAARONHZx, EXTREME ILXOR LOOK ALL CAPS (AaronHz), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

ok his name was Seth Robinson

― xAARONHZx, EXTREME ILXOR LOOK ALL CAPS (AaronHz), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but i was dialing up on Z-dial or whatever that program was called for macs for BBSing geekwads.

And it was 1993.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

you are OLD SCHOOL

― xAARONHZx, EXTREME ILXOR LOOK ALL CAPS (AaronHz), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

I had Tradewars and LotRD running on my BBS from 1992-4.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

omg i used to play tradewars too.

I never really got hooked on it, though, like I did with LORD.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

you ran a bbs? was it WaReZ?!?

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

It wasn't WaReZ, but it was pretty 31337.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

I was in one of those nerdy ANSI groups back in my BBS days. I used to be cool.

― major jingleberries (jingleberries), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

ugh i used to be in a warez games cracking/releasing group. and also a warez courier group. har-har so nerdy.

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

gawd you guys.

― xAARONHZx, EXTREME ILXOR LOOK ALL CAPS (AaronHz), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

is an ANSI group like, a club where you make pics of boobs in flashing ANSI text?

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

The idea of warez appealed to me back in the day. The spelling and erstwhile capitalization of it was (just like it is now) fucking retarded.

― martin m. (mushrush), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

Hey, ANSI is still cool!

― papa november (papa november), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

I took a computer class, that year (1993), and learned visual basic, or maybe it was just basic, and programmed some stupid flashing ANSI thing that organized my CD collection.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Saturday, 8 January 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

I did something similar in a woodworking class.

― martin m. (mushrush), Saturday, 8 January 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

I didn't own a PC until 1998. I begged and pleaded for one as a kid, but we were poor....

― xAARONHZx, EXTREME ILXOR LOOK ALL CAPS (AaronHz), Saturday, 8 January 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

lots of ansi groups did graphics for bbs. like menus, welcome pics, fonts and that kind of stuff. I was only moderately talented so I stuck to doing fonts.

http://www.ice.org/search.php

click on apox as 'artist' and you can see most of my output. You could also type in various other ice doods like 'toon goon' or 'tempus thales' to check out the medium in various forms..

― major jingleberries (jingleberries), Saturday, 8 January 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

You're apox?! Wow, someone in my fine art class last semester mentioned you and your work in a talk they did about ANSI.

― papa november (papa november), Saturday, 8 January 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

finally, the recognition I deserve.

― major jingleberries (jingleberries), Saturday, 8 January 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.saiyanisland.com/test.html

― logged up, Saturday, 8 January 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

www.runescape.com is free

Just don't talk to anyone else on there, ever. Or try to actually roleplay.

― lupine lupin (lupinelupin), Saturday, 8 January 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)

Anarchy Online is free until January 15. It's definitely worth a look.

― holojames (holojames), Saturday, 8 January 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

I guess we could all play LORD here, right?

http://lord.nuklear.org/

This is a Seth Robinson game too? Well, I'll be.

― xAARONHZx, EXTREME ILXOR LOOK ALL CAPS (AaronHz), Saturday, 8 January 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

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