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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.

End of Time is a free, text-based Multi-User Dungeon built around the beloved worlds of Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and Secret of Mana, offering players a unique multiplayer RPG experience in familiar Square Enix settings. The site covers races, classes, clans, world lore, and gameplay mechanics, with links to recommended MUD clients and an active wiki for deeper exploration.

Dark Legacy is a free browser-accessible MUD (multi-user dungeon) set in the fantasy world of Alora, offering players 40 races, multiple classes, crafting, pet training, dungeon exploration, and player-built structures. Created by Daan van Yperen and running for over a decade, it features an extensive character customization system with ancestries, starsigns, and hundreds of physical traits.

A German-language forum thread dedicated to interactive fiction and text adventures, featuring a user-contributed German translation of the Undum tutorial by Ian Millington. The post by StJohn Limbo aims to help German-speaking authors create CYOA and multiple-choice adventures using the Undum framework, lowering the barrier for non-English speakers.

NannyMUD is a long-running fantasy MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) that has been active since 1990, offering players a rich world of guilds, magic, and adventure accessible via telnet or a Java client. The site introduces the game's lore, people, and world, with references to Tolkien-inspired settings and a wide variety of playable character archetypes including knights, druids, vampires, and monks.

TADS (Text Adventure Development System) is the official home of a free, professional-grade authoring toolkit for creating interactive fiction, maintained by Michael J. Roberts. The site offers downloads, comprehensive manuals, code examples, and community links for both TADS 2 and TADS 3, making it an essential hub for serious IF developers.

Tharsis Gate is the official home of a fantasy-themed MUD featuring elves, dragons, guilds, and medieval adventure in a richly imagined world. Visitors can connect via Telnet or Java, browse getting-started guides, view guild information, and access an archived copy of the Imaginary Realities MUD e-zine.

Avatar MUD (also known as AVATAR) is the official homepage for a long-running multi-user dungeon hosted at outland.org, featuring detailed resources on races, classes, geography, lore, and character progression tiers. Visitors can find game updates, player stat archives, newbie tips, MUD client guides for multiple platforms, forums, and even a photo gallery of the player community.

The Treaty of Babel is a technical standard and software suite that establishes a common bibliographic system for interactive fiction, assigning ISBN-like IDs to story files across formats like Inform, TADS, Hugo, and Twine. It provides cover art standards, metadata formats, and command-line tools so that IF players and archivists can treat all story file formats equally regardless of which design system created them.

BatMUD is one of the longest-running text-based multiplayer online games in existence, having been continuously online since 1990 and set in a medieval fantasy world with open-ended roleplay and character creation. Players can log in directly from the browser, download a dedicated client, and even attend real-world player meetups like the Las Vegas-hosted Vegascon conferences.