Changes to the Karanas?

I was a little shocked to see, while I was running around the Karanas this morning working on my DikuMUD version, how much it had changed. Blood red skies? Creepy looking treants? What’s going on? I took a screenie of the druid ring in North Karana to use as my new header.

EQ Diku

EQ and its related games (pretty much every modern MMO) have long been dismissed as nothing but “DikuMUDs with a graphical interface slapped on top of them”. I’ve been playing with the DikuMUD code over the last few days to get a feel for world building and to add a feature (what I call “rally … Read more

EQ2: Rise of Kunark rumors

THIS TURNED OUT TO BE A JOKE. Sorry for falling for it. It really did sound to good to be true. — Take this with a generous helping of salt. Someone was claiming they had found a feature list for EQ2: Rise of Kunark, and it included these things: Beast lords New look for Iksar … Read more

EQ2: Tarinax, Bloodlines and More Unrest

Last weekend was the last weekend I’ll be able to play EQ, as I am moving cross-country and it could be a few weeks for everything to arrive, Internet get hooked up, life to settle back to normal, fingers get unfrozen enough to type.
But, it was a good weekend.

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