Although some people, including me, can have as much fun in taking their charecter out to buy some clothes as in killing the Imperially Mandated Zombie Kobold, most people who end up playing roleplaying MUDs enjoy something in between, where their charecter does engage in RP and politics and such, but also goes out and kills kobolds for little reason beyond seeing You have reached the illustrious level 6!. This, again, goes back to MUDs roots in tabletop RPGs. Role-playing games generally fall somewhere in between storytelling, where the main charecters are like charecters in a play, and door bashing, where the kill and loot and kill and loot and kill a little more. This is the same for MUDs.
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