TMC Player Reviews: Shattered Kingdoms

(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author [Dulrik] and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff).

Shattered Kingdoms is a roleplaying-required MUD.  In reading this review, it seems that the 
reviewer may not have recognized that fact or perhaps not be familiar with roleplaying in general.  
On SK, an immortal is not a synonym for a staff member, they are in-character deities who grant 
magical powers to the followers of their religion who have pledged that god their very soul.

These deities rarely appear directly to mortals.  On the rare occasions that they do, it is 
usually only to highly ranked members of their religion.  Further separating the distinction 
between admins and immortals is the fact that one admin may be responsible for as many as 
half-a-dozen religions (including any roleplay that they would have to perform as the deity) 
whereas other admins aren't responsible for supporting any religions at all.

On the extremely rare occasion that a deity actually appears to the general public in the 
world, there are certain expectations for how characters should roleplay the situation.  This 
is why there is a single page in the help files (not 20) about expected behavior if your character 
meets an immortal character.  As to why a character would not look upon the face of a god, 
try looking up the story of Moses and the burning bush.

But that help file has nothing to do with how players interact with the game staff in general.  
Admins are always available to ask questions and merely expect to be treated with the same 
courtesy and respect as every other human being.  And that applies on SK's forums as well.