Avalon; The Legend Lives

on and off my favorite game since 9/11 🤣 fr though avalon is best in class

Back in 1989, Avalon was the first multiplayer online game to bring together tabletop RPG complexity (like Dungeons and Dragons), text-based continuous competitive multi-user online game (like Essex MUD) and a bunch of features we take for granted 30+ years later that were innovations at the time. Avalon pioneered: diverse abilities and character skills (with profession classes), real-time player v player combat, gameworld history with timeline and persona continuity stretching back to October 1989, player-run player-populated cities, guilds, aristocracies, elections, persistent object ownership (inventory), real estate, long-term character development, non-arbitrary game currency, PC and NPC shops, player trading, commodities, in-game object creation, openworld construction, large-scale warfare, player character gods and priestly orders, herbs, poisons, artifacts, the list goes on.