Why do you play Armageddon?

[boog]

I love the fuck out of acting ...

I do, too.  I wanted to pursue it as a career as a young man, but I had this enormous shnoz, braces and acne.  I was hugely fond of Cyrano de Bergerac, I wonder why?  I was pretty good, though!  I made a kid cry at a high school performance when I was portraying Jacob Marley.  I think I agree with you, here.  It dusts off the acting chops, doesn't it?

I made people cry, and myself cry, when I played Portia in Caesar in high school. *flex*

I used to play Armageddon to pass the time, using at as a creative outlet. I don't really have the time anymore. It's really hard to commit to a game that is so good when you have limited time to do so. So... basically, I just lurk, and I barely even post on the GDB anymore! I've found no replacement for Armageddon, except maybe my own writing, but I have to schedule time out of my day even for that.

Buh.

[Is Friday]

I spent a lot of my teenage years writing poetry and fantasy stories. In high school I was into theater, improv, and starred in a couple plays. I had dial up and trolled around for free games. I found Achaea. After a few years of that I got annoyed about the lack of RP. A friend recommended I play Arm.

I should really quit though and write a bunch instead. This takes up my creative energy.

[Desertman]

When I was in the 6th grade a friend's older brother introduced us to tabletop Dungeons and Dragons, but he lived very far away....so we only got to play when he would visit and DM for us, which wasn't often. He gave me my first ever fantasy book to read...Sojourn (Drizzt Do'Urden).

I went online with my dial up connection and looked for a way to try and play Dungeons and Dragons online to get my fix.

I found Armageddon.

I was big into reading D&D books, so I read all of the documentation I could find for Armageddon....and every original submission story on the site to "get a feel for the world", before ever making my first PC. It does not make you live longer.

I died several times at first. Most of my characters lasted less than an hour. It was hard times. Sad times.

I've been here ever since.

[Barzalene]

I never outgrew let's pretend. Arm is the only place that does it right.

Also it's ranked number 1. Oh. No. It's not.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

I always liked pretending I was somewhere else. As a kid it was the Ninja Turtles. I got into some trouble in the streets, later on in my teens. When I decided to leave trouble behind, I needed a hobby to distract me. I discovered computer games - specifically, Ultima Online. I played that for a long time, speaking in prose and whatnot. In 99, my little brother, who still plays, btw, convinced me to play Armageddon. I was hopelessly lost. But I liked it, I liked the lore, I liked the ... feel (I had always loved books, particularly fantasy).

I kept coming back, and here I remain. I don't see that ending any time soon.

[Norcal]

I fell in love with text base RP games back in the <redacted>'s. After a long break I found another game called Terris which for a while was on AOL.  I played that for some time.  Then came the age of the big graphic games like WoW and so on. They never did it for me.

I found Arm and it was simply everything I have ever wanted in a game.

I can express myself through writing, be whoever I can imagine being, have wonderful adventures and all in a safe and free game which is watched over by a group of talented and responsible people.

I play Arm because it is FUN.

[Alesan]

It's one of the more immersive MUDs I've played, and once you get up the learning curve a ways, the environment and gameplay is enjoyable. The IC/OOC barrier is pretty rock-solid, and nothing destroys immersion faster than wondering whether this or that OOC will affect IC activity. Or constant in-jokes about pop culture references, frequent anachronistic slang terms, and a myriad of other things people in those games don't give a second thought to.

I'm not a great roleplayer, or even a good one. I'm pretty mediocre. But I enjoy seeing what others do with their characters, and that's enough to keep me playing. If I amuse a few folks along the way with my own attempts, all the better.

[Bast]

I used to always be stuck as the storyteller/game master in our table top group and never got play myself because I was always running. A friend suggested I try this mud (i cant even recall its name). I played it for about six months and it closed. The people running it suggest all the players go over to Arm so I did...12 years later.. I'm just a junkie with a seriously bad addiction. What keeps me coming back? Best Rp ever and an awesome magick system.

[Kismetic]

Wow, I really appreciate all of the thoughtful responses.  I guess I was kinda wondering because this is such a niche of a niche kinda thing.  The only way I've ever been able to explain casually was that it's like one of those Choose Your Own Adventure books--  on steroids.

Anyway it interested me how people got into muding and more importantly, why you've stayed.  Thanks for the great replies, so far.

[Zoan]

I don't really, not any more. And that's really upsetting to me.

[Kismetic]

It's been good.

[Zoan]

It's been good.

yeah haha b/c u dont have to WATCH UR BACK rite

haha

[In Dreams]

Mostly because it's something I can easily multitask. I have triggers that make noises with things happening, so I put it in a window while doing other things until things happen.

[Kismetic]

It's been good.

yeah haha b/c u dont have to WATCH UR BACK rite

haha

I have a Zalanthan motorcycle gang, bro do you even ride

Mostly because it's something I can easily multitask. I have triggers that make noises with things happening, so I put it in a window while doing other things until things happen.

I have that too, I even have different sounds so I can semi ignore certain things.