What are your reasons?

[askaran]

And Allanak

[Kronibas]

I love to pretend.

When I first started MUDing, I was on an /old school/ Diku MUD, but then I swapped over to a small playerbased SMAUG MUD when they were still in fashion; Realms of Despair is the most popular SMAUG MUD still in fashion, as far as I know.

While it was most hack'n'slash, I was given my first "quest," ever, by the staff on this MUD -- because my 12 year old self amused them no doubt, somehow.  Then, I fell in love with roleplaying, and then was further cementing by finding Eternal Struggle.

Eternal Struggle was also SMAUG-based, but roleplay was enforced.  I LOVED the roleplaying aspect of it all, and eventually one of my fellow players told me about a REAL roleplaying MUD:

Armageddon.


That was in 1999, and I've been here ever since.

Because I love to pretend.

[Intrepid]

I've taken the test before.  I am, hands down, a roleplayer and an explorer, primarily.  I love the secrecy and the seeming vastness of Zalanthas.  This has lead me to create more than my fair share of whirans and desert elves.

To a lesser extent, I do enjoy Dark Sun and played it as a tabletop game.  Although this game has come a long way in its evolution from Dark Sun, it still has a very different-than-Earth feel that, to me, is an unholy marriage between John Carter of Mars, Dune, Dark Sun and Conan.

[Feco]

I'd like to add that several times, after particular characters or experiences, I've felt like the 'vastness' of Zalanthas is just falsy percieved.  Each time, that has been shattered almost immediately.  It's frickin huge, deep, and awesome.

[titansfan]

I simply love fantasy and the old-style, no gun type of gameplay. I love the ancient history and this sort of reminds me of it. I am very social IRL and have plenty to do, but I still love Arm just because it allows me to sort of create my own story, like a never-ending book I'm interacting in.

That and I've met a lot of great people through Arm and I wouldn't trade it for anything else.

[hyzhenhok]

Reason #87: Armageddon is the only RPI where I can play a beardless female dwarf.

[Jengal]

I can be in dangerous situations without being in any real danger.

[Saellyn]

I can feel sick to my stomach and then recover and think "it really wasn't as bad as I made it out to be."

[Kol]

I've said it before and I'll say it again.


It allows me to die in curious and fantastic ways.

Seriously though, I've been playing MUD's for a while, since I was 14ish. I started off on some net based ones, hack'n'slash style, and eventually stumbled across Iron Realms entertainment at 15, and joined Lusternia.
I played that until a fellow player on there mentioned Arm in an OOC chat, and I thought I should give it a go. I have no idea who that player was, but thank yoooooo!

I don't think I've ever randomly stumbled across something better than this.

[Saellyn]

I've said it before and I'll say it again.


It allows me to die in curious and fantastic ways.

Seriously though, I've been playing MUD's for a while, since I was 14ish. I started off on some net based ones, hack'n'slash style, and eventually stumbled across Iron Realms entertainment at 15, and joined Lusternia.
I played that until a fellow player on there mentioned Arm in an OOC chat, and I thought I should give it a go. I have no idea who that player was, but thank yoooooo!

I don't think I've ever randomly stumbled across something better than this.

I've stumbled across things that "sound" better at first... then just don't measure up.

[FantasyWriter]

From another thread but fits in well...

One of the reasons I have a high death rate is my idea of the game.
To me it is still a brutal fantasy game that is really kick-ass fun to play, all the more so when you are playing on the edge of your seat.
Whether that be from playing a raider/warrior going after someone whom he has no idea of their abilities before hand, a magicker, hiding, running from and/or retaliating form witch hunters, or a merchant who is out to own his own chunk of the known, and will do anything and everything to get it.

If you don't experience murder, corruption, and/or betrayal at least once a RL week, you're doing it wrong. If your the cause of the murder, corruption, and/or betrayal, kudos to you and good luck on your next character app!

I play for the moments that can end in death... i pray that they don't. (at least not for me )

[Saellyn]

From another thread but fits in well...

One of the reasons I have a high death rate is my idea of the game.
To me it is still a brutal fantasy game that is really kick-ass fun to play, all the more so when you are playing on the edge of your seat.
Whether that be from playing a raider/warrior going after someone whom he has no idea of their abilities before hand, a magicker, hiding, running from and/or retaliating form witch hunters, or a merchant who is out to own his own chunk of the known, and will do anything and everything to get it.

If you don't experience murder, corruption, and/or betrayal at least once a RL week, you're doing it wrong. If your the cause of the murder, corruption, and/or betrayal, kudos to you and good luck on your next character app!

I play for the moments that can end in death... i pray that they don't. (at least not for me )

And yet it still happens... guess I just can't stop loving death, huh?

[Xagon]

I don't play. I read. I read the text that falls down my screen like it's a neverending story. Only difference between a book and Armageddon is that you have a choice to influence this story. Don't like how Salarr and Kadius are clashing? Do something about it. Want to experience an awesome war between city-states? Make it happen.

...

It can only get better if Falcor flies out.

[Fredd]

I love politics. But it is extreamily hard to find a good political game. And its really hard to have a dynamic poliical game if you can just respawn from your assasination.

Add into it eventually after playing a long lived political PC I might want a break from it, and do some fighting or Crafting.

Arm gives a robust enviroment for both of those, as well as thieving, which you really don't get alot of in other games. Krath, I LOVE thieves.

[FantasyWriter]

I suddenly want to play another politicer. sigh

[WarriorPoet]

I play this game to pretend to chop muthafuckaz up with bone swords.

[Malifaxis]

I play this game to pretend to chop muthafuckaz up with bone swords.

PLAGIARISM!!! PLAGIARISM!!!!

[chrisdcoulombe]

Its strong enough for a man...but ph balanced for a woman.

[John]

I play this game to pretend to chop muthafuckaz up with bone swords.

PLAGIARISM!!! PLAGIARISM!!!!

Actually he gave credit where it's due so it isn't plagiarism at all.

I play because I get to do all the terrible things in game that my conscience and morals don't allow me to do in real life

[Cind]

because i can't walk up to random strangers holding costumes and one-sheet scripts and ask if they want to play out scenes from Shakespeare.

^%$ing conformity.

EDIT: weird typo.

[evilcabbage]

Because I get to be a creepy cabbage on the GDB and be thought of as clinically insane while performing some very vile things in game and being thought of as a monster.

I love me some cabbage.

[Zoan]

You are so odd.

[My 2 sids]

Character development.   

I'm a Dickens fan.   Sorry.

[Cind]

Character development.   

I'm a Dickens fan.   Sorry.

dickens is pretty freaking brutal. i love his books and they seem to be great inspiration for a landscape filled with poverty and desperation.

[Fathi]

I play this game because I am well-adjusted, good looking, and make a decent living.

In Arm, I can pretend to be none of these things.