3Kingdoms
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| Developer(s) | Project community |
| Engine | LDMud |
| Release date(s) | 1992 |
| Genre(s) | Cross-genre, MUD |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
3Kingdoms, abbreviated 3K, is a MUD, a text-based online role-playing game, founded in 1992.[1]:{{{3}}}
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Game characteristics
The MUD has a cross-genre setting; the eponymous three kingdoms are Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Chaos, the latter following an anything-goes satirical theme.[2]:{{{3}}}[3]:{{{3}}}[4]:{{{3}}} These settings connect through the MUD's central city of Pinnacle.[2]:{{{3}}}[3]:{{{3}}}
A main point of player character differentiation is in the choice of "guild", which is an option resembling a character class, but which, on 3K, can only be chosen once the character has advanced through its first few levels.[2]:{{{3}}}[3]:{{{3}}}[5]:{{{3}}} The exception is the Adventurer guild, which new characters belong to by default.[6]:{{{3}}} The selection of guilds reflects the cross-genre setting, ranging from fantasy commonplaces such as knights, priests (formerly called clerics), mages, and necromancers to Jedi, cyborgs, Fremen and changelings (formerly called the animal guild).[2]:{{{3}}}[3]:{{{3}}}[4]:{{{3}}}[6]:{{{3}}}
3K's Web site features ongoing news about the MUD; at one time this news feed was called the 3K New York Times.[2]:{{{3}}}
Reception
The MUD has received positive critical response for its friendliness to and accommodation of new players,[2]:{{{3}}}[3]:{{{3}}} and has been noted as "well-loved and full of life".[5]:{{{3}}}
Technical infrastructure
3K is an LPMud running on the LDMud game driver with an unnamed custom mudlib.[1]:{{{3}}}[2]:{{{3}}}[7]:{{{3}}}
References
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