Review Submitted By: Romani
Author Status: Player and staff member
Started on Realms of Despair: Nine+ years
Submission Date: Feb 3, 2005
TMC Listing: Realms of Despair
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Romani]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
Realms of Despair offers a wide variety of gaming experiences from
running mobs to roleplay and pkill. While neither roleplay nor
pkill are required, they have a home on RoD. As a staff member I
enjoy participating in a variety of functions on the mud from
building, assisting with quests, hosting private pkills, to
officiating many of the games within the game that we have.
As a player, there is so much in the online world that many players
have become close real-life friends through the years. There is a
great sense of community within both the players and immortals that
RoD quickly becomes an extended family.
Within the Realms of Despair, there are many organizations. Each
organization offers different areas of specialization such as
guilds, orders, nations, and clans. We also have an outstanding
support Newbie Council to assist the player in learning the basics
of online gaming. The guilds offer specialization in the many
classes available on RoD, while most orders offer specialized
techniques of massive elite mob runs.
The nations are the basis for the roleplay communities on RoD.
With the recent rebuild of The City of Sanctus Irae, the Roleplay
City on RoD, players are flocking to join this long-standing
organization now transformed.
While there are hundreds of online games that would attempt to copy
what the Realms of Despair has to offer, none measure up to the
original Smaug developed by our outstanding team of coders. Nor
do they measure up to the world within this world that spans the
globe itself bringing people of all walks of life together in one
place. Just be warned it is addicting, and to many, it is home.
Romani de Carpathia
