New here? Start with this.

You do not need to know what a MUD is to play one. Here is everything it takes to get into Phoenix Sagas.

Choose your way in: start in your browser with a free web account, or start over telnet with just a character name and password. You can link that same hero to a web account later and continue playing in either client.

Start in your browser

1

Create a free account

An email and a password. Register here, then follow the confirmation link sent to your inbox and sign in. If it does not arrive, check spam or use Resend it on the registration page. One account holds all your heroes, and browser play starts from it. Nothing to download or install.

2

Forge your hero

Click Play and the game walks you through it: choose a name and character password, pick an ancestry and a calling, shape your attributes (or type RANDOM), spend your first Training, and add a surname and appearance. The hero you forge is linked to your account automatically when you enter Coldhollow.

3

Read, type, adventure

You read the room, then type what you want to do. Eilwen will call your name at the fountain the moment you arrive; answer her, and the game teaches the rest as you go. Your first four commands:

LOOK see where you are, who's here, the exits STAT eight attributes, Health, Mana, Spirit, Stamina TASKS the finding-your-feet checklist: it spells out each next keystroke SAGA the campaign: where you are, what's next
4

Come back to the same hero

Your heroes and their progress persist between visits and releases. Phoenix Sagas is an active beta: we avoid resets wherever reasonably possible and will warn players if one becomes unavoidable. Every return visit opens on character select; type a number and you're in. Your account page keeps the trophy shelf: saga progress and permanent feats for every hero you hold. See the Terms for the beta policy.

Start over telnet: no web account needed

  1. In Mudlet, TinTin++ or another MUD client, connect to phoenixsagas.servegame.com on port 4000. For a TLS connection, use port 4443 with your client's TLS/SSL option enabled.
  2. At the name prompt, enter an unused character name: 3–16 letters. An existing name asks for that character's password instead.
  3. Choose a character password of at least eight characters and keep it for future logins and account claiming. No email address or web registration is needed.
  4. Finish character creation: ancestry, calling, attributes, Training, surname and appearance. Once you enter the world, this is your saved hero.
  5. Use QUIT when you are done. Connect again with the same name and character password to continue.

Bring your telnet hero into the browser

  1. Create a free web account with your email address and an account password. Follow the email confirmation link, then sign in.
  2. Open Your account and find Claim a character.
  3. Enter your telnet hero's Character name and Character password, then press Claim. Use the password from the game, rather than the web account password.
  4. The character appears under Your heroes. To switch into the browser, type QUIT in your telnet session, open Play, and select that hero by number or name. A linked hero needs no character password at browser character select.

Claiming links your existing hero and keeps its level, skills, inventory and progress. Telnet still uses the same character name and password. The web account password and character password are separate credentials.

You can also sign in on the web, open Play, and enter your existing character's name and password at the game prompt. A successful login links an unclaimed character automatically. If you already have a character selection menu, type the unlisted character's name there to reach its password prompt.

A character can belong to only one web account. If it is already linked elsewhere, contact a GM. See the account guide for login and claiming help.

Ways in
HowWhere
Browser (recommended)Play here with a free web account and a new or linked hero. Our client includes a map that draws itself and walks you to a clicked room, a creature finder, live panels, macros, highlights and themes. Character settings follow your hero; panel layouts are saved separately for each browser and device profile.
Any MUD clienttelnet phoenixsagas.servegame.com 4000: create or log into a character with its name and password; no web account needed
TLSphoenixsagas.servegame.com 4443
Wondering where to go next?

The world atlas maps the whole realm: every town, every hunting ground, its story and its level range, so you always know where your next fight lives.

Still stuck?

Type HELP in-game for the topic list, or read the player wiki; the full new player's guide lives there.