Tubmud is an English mud, but because it resides in Berlin, Germany,
a lot of its citizens come from Germany and speak German.

Since it is a fantasy-based World, it resides (temporally) in 'the
long distant past' and the main goal of the game is to (heroically or
cunningly) solve several of about 30 quests and some additional
scenarios, gain experience in exploring the world and fighting 
vicious beasts and fantastic creatures that haunt the world in almost 
every region.

Opposed to that, there also exists a parallel dimension where one 
plays a Monster and must try to survive the threat of adventurers, 
mostly wrecking their quest-solving attempts in the process (just 
to show the other side of the coin) in quite hilarious ways.


To prevent a poisoning of the mud-atmosphere, fighting between 
players is severely restricted if not forbidden (up till now). One 
could say, that we strive for cooperation as opposed to competition,
although there are nevertheless ample possibilities for the players
to compete with one another in various ways.

After having gained a certain amount of experience as an adventurer, 
each player is left with the choice of staying a player and becoming 
one of the Peers, that is, leaders of one of several clans, getting 
the chance to organize, and thus, better the mud-life of one's fellow
clan-members.

The other choice one is left with (even after having been a Peer of 
one of the clans for a while) is, of course, becoming a powerful 
wizard who can alter reality itself by embedding their very essence 
and creativity into the world, being able to enlarge and modify it in
all but the most fundamental ways. It is also not uncommon (and made
very easy) for a community of wizards to form who will combine their
efforts to do some projects that couldn't be done single-handedly.

It is also no must for a wizard to make any modifications to the 
game. There can be a lot of social, organisatory and other aspects of 
wizardly life one can engage oneself in. There really is no 
restriction on what a wizard has to or can do (apart from a small set 
of rules which mostly deal with the upholding of the world's 
athmosphere and game's balance). Monthly wizard-conferences are held 
for discussions of the mud's development, existing problems (be they 
of a technical or social nature) etc.

But also, Tubmud tries to be a Social Mud as much as a Game. 
Therefore, Tubmud is no hard-core roleplaying game but in many 
respects a community of people who share a world between themselves 
and are able to communicate in a lot of ways with one another. That 
is why there are a lot of ways of communication available to 
everybody, like a lot of discussion-boards, a mail-system, free 
'tells' (a sort of secret telepathy) and some others. Even 
communication with other worlds is easily possible.

To further the good relations between the mud-citizens, at least one 
big mud-meeting is held each year (up till now all have taken place 
in Germany during the summer vacations) where everybody is welcome 
who is willing and able to attend.

All in all, Tubmud primarily tries to provide you with a lot of fun 
in as many ways possible while holding you to the least possible 
number of rules and regulations.


Ugh the Library Orang-Utan (Archwizard of Tubmud)