Welcome to Adventure!
Avendar: the Crucible of Legends is an multi-user fantasy role-playing game. On these pages you'll find everything you need to know about how to begin your adventures.
Are you new to MUDs? If so, you'll find the experience of playing Avendar is like reading a novel--except you help to write the story! The fantasy world and its inhabitants are represented through descriptive text, and players interact through chat-like interfaces.
If you're a MUD veteran, you'll find Avendar to be an immersive MUD with a dedicated staff and community, and a decade of development and depth.
In Avendar you can...
- Rise from a humble beginning to become a noble swordmaster, a shadowy assassin, a secretive druid, a powerful scholar-mage, a mad alchemist, a performing bard--imagination is the limit to the type and variety of roles!
- Immerse yourself in the history and culture of a lush and all-original fantasy world.
- Create life-long friendships and rivalries in the five great Houses that vie to control the ten Stones of Power.
- Battle against your enemies in heart-pounding clashes, where skill and experience separate the winners from the dead.
- Forge your own epic storyline through subtlety, subterfuge, sheer charisma or outright force.
11 Dec 2008
New peddlers added to Var Bandor! The newbie school has a cooldown on starter EQ sacks due to repeated overuse slowing the MUD down. Fixed typos in Champion house. Fixed typos (Walls of Nordath up/down, Rynath's Brew, diagnose & curse/hamstring, voidwalk, noyell, decrepit age). Fixed double-inspect when inspecting a berserked person. Fixed bug with archery and dark rooms. Blade of light now has the proper damtype. Fixed suction exploit. Fixed unseen servant memory leak. Awaken now relieves bolo unconsciousness. Successful decapitation makes a head object. Using shadowmastery while blind now has a similar penalty to hide. Taint will show differently to I.D.E. and Truesight (Faint Red, Red, Dark Red, Black). Improved Detect Evil varies echoes based on taint rather than alignment. Fixed crash bug [and typo!] with Bane of Asjia. Lucid Dreaming checks for fly/sit/rest as well as wake. Abolished "Ok." as a spell echo. Bards no longer remain hidden if they remove their instrument after using the Veils of Tyril. Fixed Create Foci exploit. City movement now costs only 1 movement point. Enchant weapon/branding exploit fixed. Spiritwrack damage tweaked to account for taint.
25 Nov 2008
There are now some minor benefits to be gained from taking sides in the Krilin/Hill Giant conflict. Astral projection security vulnerability fixed. Water elementals can no longer request items. Bolo now works correctly at range. Light sleep now works with furniture. Dirt kicking no longer works underwater. Lay of Lilisa now works correctly. Characters who are berserked will no longer be inspect-able. Smooth terrain now echoes more than "Ok." when you are already affected. Attempting to put/get an item into a closed container now echoes appropriately. Hew correctly echoes the sex of the hew-ee rather than the hew-er on an instant kill. Boneshatter without a target now echoes correctly.
21 Nov 2008
Corrected an error in zeal helpfile. A small shrine to Sythrak has now been made sacred to him. Please continue to report errors of this nature if you find them! No longer will the Arien Plains be plagued by people picking up odd sphere-shaped flags! Assorted typos corrected. Couple prog oversights fixed. Cash exploit in Alensha fixed.
14 Nov 2008
Fixed typos in zeal and positive channel helpfiles.
12 Nov 2008
Spirit scholar helps updated. Spirit templar helps updated. Both classes properly described.
24 Oct 2008
Corrected an error in the stabilize helpfile. Expanded earth scholar description text. Water scholar helps updated. Water templar helps updated. Both classes properly described now.
11 Oct 2008
Earth scholars now have a proper helpfile description of the class. Earth scholar skills all written up; there is significant overlap with other classes on these. Earth templar helpfiles updated. Earth templar class description helpfile updated.
08 Oct 2008
Helpfiles for all earth scholar spells updated. The website helps for these may look unsightly for a while. Help RECENT reconstructed. Help OLDER CHANGES is back in use. An old easter egg helpfile has been reinstated.
June 07, 08: Recent Changes
Decreased the damage from ray of light and icebolt very slightly; they now do a bit less damage than firebolt. Dexterity impacts parry and offhand parry. We've switched the codebase over to C-style C++; expect more crashes at first, but gradually clearing up. If you think you know what caused a crash, please let us know! New equipment added to Gogoth's Palace.
May 12, 08: Recent Changes
We're on a new server! See here for more info. No more hangs! Note to Immortal has been deprecated in favor of avendar AT gmail DOT com, and will eventually be replaced by a ticketing system. We've also begun a crusade on crashes!
February 21, 08: Recent Changes
Information on Dorrod and Dolgrael has been released and updated, as part of our Pantheon revamp. Fire templars now have the infravision and cleave skills. Watcher's sentries and scholar elementals are now much more interesting.
Jan 28, 08: New Skill & Race/Class Combos
A new fighter skill, Rout, made its debut appearance on Hero Day. Complacent gang-bangers, beware! Additionally, the race/class combos of chaja fighter and ethron barbarian are now available.
Jan 26, 07: Hero Day Tomorrow!
The second-ever Avendar Hero Day will be held from midnight to midnight of Sunday January 27th. Regular characters are temporarily suspended, and all new characters enter the game as heros! This is a fantastic opportunity to check out first-hand the extensive development that has gone into the Avendar classes. Throughout the day a variety of special events will be held. Come join in the fun!
05 Dec, '07: Cartograffic!
We're in the process of testing our new interactive map, meticulously scanned together by various hardworking demipowers, sprites, and spirits (or a mad Immortal with Photoshop, we're not quite sure). Right now it's set for 800x600 resolution for testing purposes - we're going to knock it to 1024 resolution, and split the layers into many more layers. Other than that, it's ready! If you have any feedback, suggestions, or would like to contribute work to the map, let us know on the forums!
