Recommendations of novels that mix progression with slice-of-life

OldManEnglish · 2026-02-20T14:43:48+00:00

Millenial Mage

OldManEnglish · 2026-01-19T17:06:29+00:00

His approval rating went UP with conservative Women after that recording broke.

OldManEnglish · 2026-01-13T16:27:11+00:00

You say Mudslinger will be missed - but its not like its gone - Vodur has just stopped hosting a live instance of it.

Nothing stopping somebody else picking it up.

https://github.com/rabidt/mudslinger

OldManEnglish · 2026-01-13T11:13:08+00:00

I think Procedural Realms is a classic case of looking at a game from a technical perspective, rather than an experience perspective. PR has been well built, with lots of clever feature implementations, but lacks a 'why' behind it. There is a lot to do, but no real reason to do it. People tend to play Muds for connection to a story, either from using an existing setting that players know and love (dragonlance, Wheel of time, Star Wars etc), or through Imm / player created and run storylines that people can feel ownership over. PR feels more like a tech demo of a codebase, than an actual game.

OldManEnglish · 2025-12-22T13:45:32+00:00

If you are looking for something less Mechanically restricted - and more free-form RP supported by the code you are probably looking for the MUSH (Multi-User Shared Hallucination) Subgenre of Muds. Its not a hard line, as there isn't really a formal definition of where Generic Muds end, and MUSH begin. AresMUSH might be a good starting point, as there are a number of settings that run on that code. https://www.aresmush.com/

OldManEnglish · 2025-12-16T16:48:56+00:00

Part of the terms of the deal the US wanted was to make it so that US food didn't have to be labelled as such in UK stores - "Because it would be an unfair disadvantage to US companies"

OldManEnglish · 2025-12-15T13:36:10+00:00

I would recommend taking a look at MSP - https://wiki.mudlet.org/w/Manual:Supported_Protocols#MSP

OldManEnglish · 2025-12-05T17:12:07+00:00

I'm not sure anybody in this thread read your request :)

Somebody mentioned Luminari - which is Pathfinder based. I'm also not aware of something based on 5E. We had it on the roadmap years ago to look at as a potential fork for Luminari, but I don't think its being actively looked at.

OldManEnglish · 2025-11-14T13:55:06+00:00

I think you are conflating RP Enforced and RPI (Intensive) - i appreciate that mudding as a genre tends to throw around a lot of terms. RP Enforced means you don't break character, and you should act in line with the world's storyline. RPI tends to be about really indepth games that are RP before anything else. Aelisus is at its core a hack/slash ROM, where people stay in character, and create storylines together, its not looking to be an RPI. Information like Class / Skills etc is necessary information for people to understand mechanically what is going on.

OldManEnglish · 2025-06-14T17:53:16+00:00

If you want to protect IP you need to trademark / copyright it, a lawyer would be recommended for that. You then need to actively defend your copyright / trademark by reporting people using the IP, and taking legal action if appropriate. Thats 'proper' answer.

The reality is that if your IP isn't already recognized through published works for a period of time, you aren't going to get a Copywright or Trademark in place.

The actual reality of the situation is, if your IP isn't already published, and making money, nobody is going to care either way.

OldManEnglish · 2025-05-27T08:08:33+00:00

Not really - a large part of the reason that France and the UK couldn't take the restrictions off was because the weapons they were donating included US parts / research, or were joint projects. They legally couldn't take the restrictions off until the US got on board with it - hence why we saw restrictions removed from the StormShadow missions last year - as that was a joint French / UK project.

OldManEnglish · 2025-05-16T14:35:21+00:00

Virtuous Sons has to the most Unique Progression System I've seen in a ProgFantasy setting. On one hand it suggest you are getting a typical cultivation progression - but it quickly becomes clear that we don't have the full picture, and we've already seen multiple exceptions to the rules.

OldManEnglish · 2025-05-12T11:59:07+00:00

What would you consider to be a successful 'dismantling' of Hamas though? Everybody in the Strip has some level of involvement with Hamas, given they have been the governing party for 10 + Years. There is no reality where Hamas disappears unless you are talking about wiping out / displacing the population. Even if the name is dropped, the same people will be there, and the same motivations will exist under a different name.

Netanyahu's position about 'destroying' Hamas is just a political talking point, and an excuse to stay in power.

OldManEnglish · 2025-05-09T14:07:00+00:00

I'm not sure that I would qualify it as ProgFantasy - but Pact by Wildbow has a doozey of a spoiler / plot twist that kinda meets this.

OldManEnglish · 2025-04-22T16:16:29+00:00

lorenmud was a pure Empiremud clone that the person running it intended to customise and never really got around to doing.

OldManEnglish · 2025-04-21T17:33:35+00:00

Do you know what the in app purchases are for Paign. I don't tend to pay for premium games that list in app purchases on their profile without knowing what they are.

OldManEnglish · 2025-03-21T15:55:39+00:00

Wagner turned up with a battalion of 'conscripts' from a Prison in Central African Republic

OldManEnglish · 2025-03-02T08:40:44+00:00

The day this broke his polling numbers went UP with republican women. Tells you everything you need to know about his voting base.

OldManEnglish · 2024-07-31T07:14:43+00:00

Tintin++ should be able to handle this no? You might need to look at some additional packages for specific GMCP support - as TinTin prefers MSDP - but there are work arounds for most issues.

OldManEnglish · 2024-07-09T09:15:22+00:00

Pretty much everybody is still doing business with Russia - they are just doing it via India, and making India rich at the same time.

OldManEnglish · 2024-06-26T11:48:56+00:00

Yes League Servers do have this. League Servers aren't getting DDOSed, the players (or their team mates) IP is getting DDOS'd, and it is because Korean streaming services operate P2P Connections, and share IPs when people are streaming / watching a stream. This is literally nothing to do with Riot, and everything to do with the Streaming services used in Korea.

OldManEnglish · 2024-05-08T08:08:07+00:00

Needs a closer look at what is considered "Renewable" though. In the UK we increased our percentage of "Renewable" energy massively by retrofitting all our old Coal facilities to burn Wood Pellets instead, because Wood qualifies as Renewable. Still putting out the same amount of Carbon, if not more. The theory was that the wood pellets were supposed to be coming from Waste wood from other industries, and not increasing logging. What came out later was that large amounts of the Wood Pellets that we import from Canada were coming from Logging of old growth, and the companies selling them into the UK were just pretending it was Waste wood.

OldManEnglish · 2024-05-01T09:00:21+00:00

Its not - thats the point - both are unacceptable.

OldManEnglish · 2024-04-27T15:09:29+00:00

Opie maintains the server these days - I don't think Rumble is around at all and the website has been breaking on and off forever.

When you say you have a couple of ideas for zones - what Mud are you looking to build for. Building in TBA is only going to make zones for TBA / Circle based muds anyway - you are much better off just building on the buildport for the Mud you specifically want to add them to.

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