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| ===Introduction=== | | === <font face="Garamond">''A world born out of the void . . .''</font> === |
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| Avlis is a role-playing environment created for use online, using the Internet. It is continuously running and available to use. This fantasy setting was created by the merger of three things:
| | <big> <font face="Garamond"> ''. . . and into an age of strife, when the demon Negarai brought forth from another dimension nine prisoners who were to become gods. A world of magic, where vortices of raw power give birth to all things arcane and divine. A world of steel, where great battles engulf the entire continent of Negaria, forever changing her face, her peoples, and marking the epochs of time. A world of balance, where no one philosophy or race holds sway.'' </font> </big> |
| * the [[Wikipedia:Dungeons & Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]] (D&D) role playing game (RPG);
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| * the [[Wikipedia:Neverwinter_Nights|Neverwinter Nights]] (NWN) computer RPG;
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| * a long-running pen and paper (PnP) game, the [[Avlis campaign]], that over the past twenty years has developed the rich history and storyline used in the online version.
| | '''[[Culture]]''' : [[Classes]] | [[:Category:Language|Languages]] | [[Magic]] | [[Religion]] |
| This [[PnP]] game is run ([[Wikipedia:Dungeon Master|Dungeon Mastered]]/"[[DM]]ed") by [[User:Orleron|Orleron]], and utilizes the [[DungeonsandDragons|D&D]] rules. But Avlis on the Internet is more than the sum of all three of these things.
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| * It is more than [[Wikipedia:Dungeons & Dragons|D&D]] because it allows you to play roles that were never possible in that RPG – politician, blacksmith, bowyer, innkeeper, merchant, and many more.
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| * It is more than [[Wikipedia:Neverwinter_Nights|NWN]] because it contains features developed by the team that [[Wikipedia:Neverwinter_Nights|NWN]] does not have – [[Custom Races|custom races]] like playing a centaur, the inclusion of religions to build into the role you want to play, the ability to [[Acs:Crafting System|craft]] you own armor, clothing and weapons, even its own [[Custom Content|custom background music]].
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| * it is more than the [[PnP|pen-and-paper]] (PnP) [[Avlis campaign]] because, while the original campaign is played by perhaps a dozen dedicated roleplayers, Avlis on the internet is enjoyed by over a thousand people.
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| Avlis online has two dozen [[The Avlis Team|team members]], from [[DM]]s to programmers to quest and [[area]] builders and webmasters, who work diligently to ensure that Online Avlis is enjoyed by all of them. And this is a work in progress; whilst many [[area]]s are fully developed, there are many more geographic areas and environments to be added into this project.
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| So if you seek high fantasy with intense roleplay, where your character and the characters around you come to feel not just like a collection of stats and pixels but true living beings, then Avlis is the place for you.
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A world born out of the void . . .
. . . and into an age of strife, when the demon Negarai brought forth from another dimension nine prisoners who were to become gods. A world of magic, where vortices of raw power give birth to all things arcane and divine. A world of steel, where great battles engulf the entire continent of Negaria, forever changing her face, her peoples, and marking the epochs of time. A world of balance, where no one philosophy or race holds sway.
Culture : Classes | Languages | Magic | Religion