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.
Recent Changes
28 Aug 2010
* Lesser spirit shield no longer reduces all damage.
* Meditative strike damage adjusted.
* Shield slam may now be countered via the counter skill and form of the
mockingbird, no longer hits fled targets, and defenses now reduce the
damage.
* The learn toggle may now be used while sleeping.
* A character's pretitles will now appear in their score.
* Abilities list format updated.
* Soul flare now properly echoes when it ends.
* Soul flare no longer doubles its effect.
* Air bubble now echoes correctly if a person is already able to breathe
underwater.
* Gifted's fail chance removed.
* Aristocrat now gives a good amount of money.
* Birds of prey now purge correctly when the owner quits.
* Improvement rate for both archery and arc shot improved.
* Disjunction now works correctly.
* Jab damage lowered.
* Headbutt damage lowered.
* All characters created on accounts now may create with surnames.
* Additional languages now cost 1 train instad of 2.
* Wind surge damage adjusted.
* Absorb electricity now additionally heightens chances of iterative attacks.
* Blindfighting now has a chance of getting through smokescreen.
* Cone of cold now works correctly.
* Ball lightning lag reduced slightly to match other templar area spells.
* Alter Self now globally targetable.
* Poisoned containers no longer remain poisoned when empty.
* Dancing sword items end up in your inventory when the affect ends.
* Stab damage reduced.
* Ethron may now be psionicists.
* Assassin and psionicist are now part of the mentalist designation.
* Night vision activation lag removed.
* Blinding dust and nerve no longer provoke an immediate attack against the
user.
* Mindshield now protects against a number of mind-affecting powers
* Many assassin skills no longer have a mana cost
* Disguise no longer changes your name on where
* Vital strike functionality changed
* Cloak is now a psionic focus.
* Assassin mana gains slightly improved
* Envenom can no longer use generic poison
* Assassin titles adjusted
* Assassin no longer receives the following skills: scrolls, retreat, disarm,
endurance, exploit, sixth sense, detect hidden
* Assassin now receives the following skills: pick lock, acuity, celerity,
shadow fist, mindshield, prowess, conceal remains, trance, snap kick, stab,
smokescreen
* Windwalk may now be used on hero targets.
08/30/10
* Throw can no longer be used against targets that are in a room you can't see into.
* Where <mobname> will no longer show the mob's keywords.
* Forced march echoes differently when the different affects fade.
* You can no longer scout yourself.
* Bandage now cures poison on the person it is applied to.
* Pounce will now apply its affect for an additional tick.
* Lag on predatory attack slightly reduced.
* Huntersense no longer drains mana when in cities/indoors.
* Yell added for shoot, arcshot.
* Jab is now usable with a mace/empty offhand.
For changes prior to this update, please see help OLDER CHANGES.
