Fablerift is a free multiplayer text RPG in the classic MUD tradition, on one shared server: a name, a password and a colour choice, and you are walking the Mistwood beside everyone else. The browser client and telnet reach the same world, so a player who installed nothing is in the room next to you.

Seven regions of forest, coast, desert and frozen peak each carry their own weather, and a day/night cycle changes what comes out after dark. Chop, mine and fish, craft at shared workbenches, and cook meals that keep you warm on the mountain. Classes have their own abilities with mana costs and cooldowns, bosses telegraph their heaviest blows, and a party can clear instanced dungeons – with heroic versions once the story is done. There are guilds, player-to-player trading, a market board that sells while its owner is away, mail with items attached, land you can claim, and a five-chapter story that runs to a final boss.

In Mudlet the game’s own interface installs itself on login through GMCP Client.GUI: vitals, chat windows with timestamps, clickable text, item and quest panels, and a mapper fed by GMCP Room.Info with fixed coordinates, with the starting region’s safe rooms already on your map. GA is on by default after every prompt, and gui off or mudlet off turns the interface back off. Screen-reader, large-text, ASCII-only and colour-free modes are built in.

The server is MIT-licensed and self-hostable, so you can run your own world and invite people to it. New players welcome.