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Brass Lantern is a comprehensive resource for interactive fiction and text adventure enthusiasts, covering everything from beginner guides to deep IF theory articles and game reviews. Stephen Granade built this site into a rich hub featuring competition reviews, language comparisons between TADS and Inform 7, puzzle design essays, and ongoing news about the interactive fiction community.

The Musers conference on The WELL is a community discussion space dedicated to MUDs, MUSEs, and other text-based virtual worlds, exploring their roles as gaming environments, educational tools, and online communities. Visitors can find links to MUD resources, TinyMUSH manuals, TinyFugue, and a WELLmuse quick-start guide alongside community discussion threads.

Part of the WWW Virtual Library's Educational Technology section, this page from TECFA (University of Geneva) catalogs resources on educational virtual reality environments, MOOs, and MUDs as learning tools. A comprehensive link directory compiled by Daniel K. Schneider, it covers academic projects, technical guides, and community resources for educators exploring text-based virtual worlds in the mid-to-late 1990s.

Solace is an online MUD set in the iconic Dragonlance fantasy universe, featuring a wide variety of playable races like minotaurs, dwarves, elves, and draconians alongside classic fantasy classes such as necromancers, knights, and clerics. The game offers persistent world roleplaying, questing, and combat rooted in the lore of Krynn, complete with its pantheon of gods and signature factions.

Moo Canada is a long-running Canadian online virtual world where users can chat, build objects, and write programs in a MOO environment. Celebrating over thirty-one years of operation, it claims to be the largest MOO in Canada and offers free accounts for anyone who wants to join its community.

The Eternal City Wiki is an unofficial fan-maintained reference for The Eternal City, a Roman-themed text-based MUD owned by ThreeSeas LLC. Visitors can browse detailed maps of the game world, explore lore about cities and regions, and use calculators for rank bonuses, training costs, combat mechanics, and more.

EmpireMUD is a map-based multiplayer online text game derived from CircleMUD and the DikuMUD family, where players build empires, claim territory, and compete for dominance in a persistent world. Originally developed by Paul Clarke starting in 2000, the game is actively maintained and accessible via Telnet or MUD clients, with features supporting both sighted and visually impaired players.