I agree that "single character" is probably important. Crossfire RPG has separated player accounts from characters precisely so that each player can have several characters while retaining an admin-traceable link between characters (presumably in case you want to forbid players from brinin...

Battle for Wesnoth is an awesome storyboarding tool, lettign you do all kinds of experiments on how much storyline players will tolerate and how much action it takes to get them to actually bother "wading through all that stupid storyline stuff" as many who like action tend to seem to thin...

"Tying it all together" was the motto for knotwork.com and knotwork.net back when I bothered to pay for hosting for them. They can still be found on The Wayback Machine but paying for hosting turned into a monetary loss after the dot-com boom turned into the dot-com bust. Eventually I will...

I didn't even think to dig that deep yet actually, I thought it was the generic olld style code license where you don't think of using a different license for art than for the code, like Freeciv that still as far as I know lumps its art into the GPL license that covers the code. I think it tends to ...

Permadeath was normal back when Dungeons and Dragons first came out, and unless the online version abolished it as far as I know it is still normal, albeit ameliorated by the existence of resurrection spells for high level clerics. So maybe it partly depends on whether there is some other term one u...

It is a pity that art assets have been pointed to as a/the major stumbling-block, because depending on exactly how identical to evony you want to be there might be solutions out there but some of them might come from the "private server" type of mentality that seems to like stealing art as...

Kngdoms.se MUD has PvP but not completely open, it limits you to five levels above and below your level and also flags you as a murderer if you kill a player who is not themself a murderer and is not a member of a different "court" in the "noble courts" system. (Noble Courts are ...