ADR uses custom settings which leans on Forgotten Realm Campaign settings.
Length
While ADR mostly aims for roleplay, plots and quests, people can enjoy a possibly unlimited amount of gameplay hours. The heavy focus on roleplay and moderate XP gaining gives a low to medium progress in levelling up.
Number DMs
6
IPs
IP refreshes every 24 hours
Staff Requirements
DM Staff: Solid experience in RP, friendly behaviour, willing to occassionally run events & calm demanour. Democratic voting of DM staff to approve new DM members.
Developper Staff: Personal decision of the author
Scope
Large
Hack & Slash
Light
Classes
Any classes are available. Prestige classes and custom classes are restricted to DM approval.
"A Dark Realm" is a very young multiplayer persistent world with custom content & DM quests. ADR just passed the beta test phase and is under constant development and provides a wide scale of entertainment.
Several realms fight for their expansion and influence, but strange powers and groups threaten to change the world radically. The protagonists (players) are regulary involved in adventures to work for good, justice, glory or even the dark side of evil, trickery and horror.
Where would your character find place in a world of sheer unlimited possibilities and dark dreams?
Hackpacks:
- CEP 2.0
- Custom Hackpacks --> available at:
Link
Magic & Compatibility:
- CEP compatible weapon enhancement spells (Magic Weapon, Greater Magic Weapon, Keen, Flame Weapon)
- Configurable magic system for various spells (Summon 1-9, for example)
- Customized Spells
Weapons:
- Additional Weapon Appearances
Characters Creation & Handling:
- May choose starting 1-5
- Easy in-game character editing & colour correcting for hair, skin, tattoo 1 & tattoo 2
- DMFI Tools for players & DM
- Powerfull armour, weapon & Shield Crafting
- Item renaming possible for players
- Exploiting control system (you won't find characters with starting ability score 99 on ADR)
Roleplay:
- Players are encouraged to heavy roleplay and asked to stay in-character as much as possible. Roleplay may also be rewarded by DM with XP.
Custom XP System:
- XP amount: low/medium
- Party members give a small bonus to XP for defeating monsters, up till 5 party members
- "Anti Leeching System" to prevent characters with huge differences in their level to other characters to level them up
Posted by SBCrystal at 2008-10-17 20:09:29 Voted 10.00 on 10/17/08
I love this server. I like all the people there, they are so very nice. The setting is open and vast. You can really use your imagination here.
Posted by EvilWalks at 2008-10-17 15:28:51 Voted 10.00 on 10/17/08
It's a breath of fresh air from the usual dribble that resides upon the server list...friendly mostly-intelligent players, with a seriousness yet fun roleplaying style...plus active GMs giving quests, a rarity of a jewel not engraved into many a server out there.
Kudos!
Posted by Ben Harrison at 2008-10-17 13:59:46 Voted 9.75 on 10/17/08
For the roleplayer, this world definitely deserves some more attention. The admin puts a serious amount of effort into developing and improving the growing server, and I can vouch for the maturity, skill, and friendliness of many of its regular players as well. The world's gritty and intelligent enough to allow "serious" roleplay, but doesn't rule out some action and humorous elements either.
Keep it up Tanja! _________________________ [Blog] [Mods]
Posted by Lydyn at 2008-10-10 12:38:40 Voted 9.75 on 10/10/08
Awesome, awesome server. When my old server had shut down after four years, I was left wandering for months on end, never finding a satisfying server I can call home until I found ADR. The magic is low, but not so much it's too realistic (+1 - +2 items) and the leveling is slow, but not painstakingly slow, so it feels like you can accomplish something and when you do, it feels really nice.
Of course the best part of it is the role-play. There's so amny opportunities for different types of role-play, it's great. You can go from being a northern berserker to a follower of Bast (Egyptian god) to a samurai or ninja from Shaori. Not only that, but because of the setting, any of those characters can and do fit into the setting and with each other (maybe not personality wise though ;) ).
As said before, it's still young though and I'm sure everyone is looking forward to new players. I sure am. ^^
Posted by Lost Crusader at 2008-10-09 01:48:33 Voted 9.50 on 10/09/08
Especially interesting in this setting is the rich variety of cultures that allows players to easily adopt their own character's background to the game world for a better immersion while you are in no way forced to do so. Your own imagination constitutes the limits.
From frozen wastelands to deserts, this setting has everything NWN offers while presenting it in reasonably (loading delay friendly) small areas. Join in and discover the Mystic Forrest or the oriental realm of Shaori.
This world is still young so there are many opportunities to contribute creative input and help shaping it, leaving your own footprints.
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