Kingdoms is a MUD (multi user dungeon) that is run at the consulting company NetGuide in Gothenburg, Sweden. The mud started in 1992 and then ran at the department for Engineering Physics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. Kingdoms follows a fantasy type theme, leaning towards the medieval time period. Players gain experience points by solving quests and killing monsters. By doing so, the player can advance levels and gain abilities. Killing of other players is allowed, but follows certain rules.
Compared to other MUDs, Kingdoms has a quite advanced character development system, vaguely based on the RoleMaster system, with 10 different characteristics and a large number of skills. There are a growing number of guilds for players to join, all taking a different approach to adventuring.
Kingdoms can be found by: telnet kingdoms.se 1812
The administration and Gods of Kingdoms are Glaurung, Diablos, Lapsus, Narzug, Pathfinder, Shyan, Slayer and Styggamorf. Kingdoms is running on AZ Game Driver and Kingdoms mudlib. The hardware is a 166 MHz Pentium running Debian Potato Linux kernel 2.2.14
