Founded in 1992, Nightmare LPMud is one of the oldest continually running LPMuds still played. Its roots go back to the original LPMud, Genesis LPMud when Forlock of Genesis along with some students at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine founded Orlith in 1991. This mud lasted only a year before disintegrating into two rival muds, Nightmare and Phoenix. The current incarnation of Nightmare (meaning support for full player continuity) opened October 31, 1992. Since that time, there has been one major revision in 1996 that required a conversion of players into Nightmare Mudlib's Nightmare IV format. Nightmare has never charged players to play.
The Nightmare world includes multiple player administered city-states. The core city-state, Praxis, was destroyed in a recent clash among deities worshipped by various Nightmare religions. Each city-state is the home of one or more player races such as elves, humans, apskara, halflings, gnomes, ogres, and so on. In some cities, the races get along well; in others there is continuous strife. Players on Nightmare elect to learn a specific profession that dictates the way they play the game. Professions like fighters are the traditional "hack-n-slash" while professions like fishers rarely engage in combat.
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