Hi, I have the VIP Mud client and would like to know how to configure it better for playing RPGs. Right now it's set to "default path". It also has a sound path and a logs path. What precisely do those paths mean? For me, since I'm really geographically challenged, I'm wondering if a combination of sound and speech would work for me. I also find it hard because I've never scripted anything in my life (and don't particularly want to). I also wish I could find a way so my screen reader would tell me how names are spelled. I say this because I can't seem to use the typical reading commands. I'm wondering also if my view is wrong. I'll probably have to check it. I would really like to do role-playing, but find it exceedingly frustrating because I'm the newbie player. The help files tend not to be as helpful as I'd like and also, it seems I'm asked to do acts which are nonsensical (depending on the game). I come from a reading, movie-observing, TV-observing, and play-listening background. What galls me is the difference between what the game could be for me and my frustration in not getting there, i.e., advancing . I also understand that VIP MUD isn't the only mud client out there, but which ones are easy to use if you're a non-techno-savvy blind person. I truly wish there were manuals and tutorials for people like me who need stuff in excruciating detail where I can understand the sense of commands, etc. I also suppose the speed is such that I'm not getting the information I want at the time and how can I get rid of those percentage signs? Okay, I know this might be considered a rant, but it's based on my feeling of going round in circles when I attempt to do some mudding. Right now, the only satisfactory thing I'm doing approaching the RPG experience is being a member of a blind gamers group using the D&D setting meeting on Sunday evenings. I'm also wondering if it wouldn't be helpful to have rpg buddies. So question 1: which paths are most useful to you who role play? Question 2: Do you find it helpful to role play at the same time as other people in the beginning? 3. When you talk to people, do you find their answers helpful? 4. Is there an RPG where it is satisfactory on every level and isn't simply the hack-and-slash sort? I'd love to be better at role-playing the Iron Realms games because their backgrounds and mythoses are great and they seem sensible to me, but are they all completely free to play or are there things one has to pay for? So there you have it. If anyone would like to write me off list, I'd really like serious conversations on this topic because the learning curve for mudding is high and I could really use the help surmounting the curve, so to speak. Regards, Kim Friedman.
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