Question New Developer

Hey there!

I am going to begin the personal project of working on creating a world and I've been looking around for where to begin.

I did quite a bit of building, as well as some fair amount of DG scripting (Triggers as I understand it) on a mud that was built and developed onto / from a heavily modified version of CWG Rasputin so I'm familiar with OLC and building out the WORLD and the rooms and stuff I am comfortable with.

My big question is, I know that CWG incorporates D20 rules into the coding though I'm not sure how important that is to me, but I know it also has a lot of pre-fabricated stuff what with like skills, and classes and races and so on? That being said, the latest build of any CWG I can find seems to be abouts from 2008 and tbamud has been developing that codebase into a 2019 release!

What would people suggest I do? I know admittedly not a lot about the code side of things but I could learn to put the things I need in place if I had a little bit of direction.

Moreso than the D20 rules, what I am most interested in is the DG triggers and the Oasis OLC (build-walking) for world creation and so on.

Hi Hanyo!

I would suggest fire up a copy of tbaMUD as your base, and get stuck into building out your world.

Almost anything you need can be achieved using triggers, and the bits that can't - well you can post request on the forums and are bound to get a response.

If you run with the CircleMUD releases like CWG/Budda you may run into bugs which have been addressed already by tbaMUD. Balance that against how much you want the features they include.

You'll find patches for classes/races/skill etc for tbaMUD which cover a lot of what CWG offer. But changing tbaMUD to a pure D20 ruleset is a lot of work, and not worth the effort if you ask me. Although pure D20 rules don't lend themselves to computer gaming in my opinion anyway

Whatever you choose
Good luck!