My quest for a free and quality MUD or MMORPG has been long and, so I thought, fruitless. A couple of years ago I was able to find Achaea, a text-based MUD populated by people that not only wanted to roleplay, but who were also more than happy to indulge in gratuitous (but relevant) PVP on continental scales. To become skilled in this game required a knowledge of programming for the various MUD programs used, plus there were no graphics which proved to be a big downer for me towards the end.

Then came free-to-play (with free updates) game called Guild Wars. Having looked through the website and read the online manuals I was convinced that this was the game to end my quest. So I fired it up...