I used to play MUDs with one of EQ’s leads, and while I didn’t play EQ due to having come to terms with the life-ruining risks of such games, it’s amusing to re

I used to play MUDs with one of EQ’s leads, and while I didn’t play EQ due to having come to terms with the life-ruining risks of such games, it’s amusing to read here about EQ mechanics that were pretty much ported from Sojourn / Toril MUD—the punishing zones and hard corpse recoveries, requirement for big raid groups with good coordination and communication, etc.