1996 · MUD · MUDs

TorilMUD

Toril is a Forgotten Realms MUD.

Released: 1996
Platforms: Browser Linux Windows cross-platform macOS
Genres: MUD MUDs Role-playing
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Modes: Multiplayer
Perspective: Text
Themes: Fantasy
Engine: Sequent

About

TorilMUD is a MUD, a text-based online role-playing game, and is one of the oldest and largest of its kind.

Keywords

dungeons & dragons
multi-user-dungeon

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Development

Kris Kortright, a developer from the MUD Black Knights Realm, founded Sojourn, set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, in 1993, along with Tim Devlin and John Bashaw. Sojourn was based on the Sequent codebase, the Epic spell system, and areas from Black Knights Realm. The City of Waterdeep was the first zone built entirely for Sojourn. Brad McQuaid was an avid player of Sojourn.

Seeing the commercial potential of virtual worlds in the course of his MUD career, he went on to create EverQuest. With Kris' permission, he used it as the model for the city of Freeport in EverQuest. In 1996, due to creative differences between developers, Sojourn was forked into two projects, TorilMUD and Duris: Land of Bloodlust.