Well I used to RP in AOL chats way back in the day during middle school and high school. We used the term Mun (short for mundane) to symbolize the person behind the character, the player that's controlling their character.
This term was also used by many early UO players, EQ players and AC players. It is a carry over from AOL freeform chat room role playing, Gemstone III, NWN, The Realm and many other old online games. You the player are the Mun..short for mundane. ^_^ Characters are avatars, toons and since you are human and come from the mundane world = we're all Mun's!
Well I used to RP in AOL chats way back in the day during middle school and high school. We used the term Mun (short for mundane) to symbolize the person behind the character, the player that's controlling their character.
This term was also used by many early UO players, EQ players and AC players. It is a carry over from AOL freeform chat room role playing, Gemstone III, NWN, The Realm and many other old online games. You the player are the Mun..short for mundane. ^_^ Characters are avatars, toons and since you are human and come from the mundane world = we're all Mun's!
Valador gets a cookie!
And what do the rest of us that answered get? I want a bigger cookie.
Started in Quake and UO, before that I was playing fighting games in the arcades and the occassional table top. Honestly pretty much every "online game" before Quake and UO sounded like utter trash for shut-ins anyways.
Well I used to RP in AOL chats way back in the day during middle school and high school. We used the term Mun (short for mundane) to symbolize the person behind the character, the player that's controlling their character.
This term was also used by many early UO players, EQ players and AC players. It is a carry over from AOL freeform chat room role playing, Gemstone III, NWN, The Realm and many other old online games. You the player are the Mun..short for mundane. ^_^ Characters are avatars, toons and since you are human and come from the mundane world = we're all Mun's!
Valador gets a cookie!
And what do the rest of us that answered get? I want a bigger cookie.
val gets the biggest cookie cause they had the cohones to answer publicly
Well I used to RP in AOL chats way back in the day during middle school and high school. We used the term Mun (short for mundane) to symbolize the person behind the character, the player that's controlling their character.
This term was also used by many early UO players, EQ players and AC players. It is a carry over from AOL freeform chat room role playing, Gemstone III, NWN, The Realm and many other old online games. You the player are the Mun..short for mundane. ^_^ Characters are avatars, toons and since you are human and come from the mundane world = we're all Mun's!
Valador gets a cookie!
Hmm interesting. I played UO at its birth and never once saw the term 'mun'. Oh well.
Well I used to RP in AOL chats way back in the day during middle school and high school. We used the term Mun (short for mundane) to symbolize the person behind the character, the player that's controlling their character.
This term was also used by many early UO players, EQ players and AC players. It is a carry over from AOL freeform chat room role playing, Gemstone III, NWN, The Realm and many other old online games. You the player are the Mun..short for mundane. ^_^ Characters are avatars, toons and since you are human and come from the mundane world = we're all Mun's!
Valador gets a cookie!
And what do the rest of us that answered get? I want a bigger cookie.
I remember RPing in the AOL chats before UO ever came out, lol... The "world" was called RhyDin.
I remember rolling dice using the in chat command, doing "mass spar" battles in the MS Arena. People killing their characters off forever at the "Suicide Cliffs". There was also the Red Dragon Inn, which was like the busiest chat room ever for RP.
I remember RPing in the AOL chats before UO ever came out, lol... The "world" was called RhyDin. I remember rolling dice using the in chat command, doing "mass spar" battles in the MS Arena. People killing their characters off forever at the "Suicide Cliffs". There was also the Red Dragon Inn, which was like the busiest chat room ever for RP.
Yep, Rhydin was the place, Red Dragon Inn, the Red Star Station. You were there! So was I. So were many others that went on to play such games as UO, and such. That was even before Meridian 59 and other such MuD's!
First, Mun means nothing, you made that up but nice try I give you that. The correct question should of been 'Do you know what a MuD is?' Which I do which tells my age, heh.
Nope, sorry you are still incorrect and it does not mean a freakin thing so there still stands no argument.
I remember RPing in the AOL chats before UO ever came out, lol... The "world" was called RhyDin. I remember rolling dice using the in chat command, doing "mass spar" battles in the MS Arena. People killing their characters off forever at the "Suicide Cliffs". There was also the Red Dragon Inn, which was like the busiest chat room ever for RP.
Yep, Rhydin was the place, Red Dragon Inn, the Red Star Station. You were there! So was I. So were many others that went on to play such games as UO, and such. That was even before Meridian 59 and other such MuD's!
Haha, I was one of the guys always killing people in Death Matches and Assassination Attempts. I remember everyone and their dogs ran a "forum" (a sort of organization that governed over certain aspects of the chat RP, mostly dealing with the dice combat stuff).
Ah... the good old days. I remember everyone wanted to be a vampire and be in a clan. I remember THE clan to be in was Medri. I was pretty much the only angel character around. Everyone was vampire and werewolf... lol
What evil times... that was before DSL... AOL 2.0 on dial up...
First, Mun means nothing, you made that up but nice try I give you that. The correct question should of been 'Do you know what a MuD is?' Which I do which tells my age, heh.
You are wrong. Some people have all ready e-mailed me the answer. And no...Mun is Mun and MuD is MuD. Two totally different things. ^_^
Hate to burst your bubble as well but it still has no meaning whatsoever whether you give an answer or not, the fact still stands as it does not exist and never has.
First, Mun means nothing, you made that up but nice try I give you that. The correct question should of been 'Do you know what a MuD is?' Which I do which tells my age, heh.
You are wrong. Some people have all ready e-mailed me the answer. And no...Mun is Mun and MuD is MuD. Two totally different things. ^_^
Hate to burst your bubble as well but it still has no meaning whatsoever whether you give an answer or not, the fact still stands as it does not exist and never has.
In subcultural and fictional uses, a mundane is a person who does not belong to a particular group, according to the members of that group; the implication is that such persons, lacking imagination, are concerned solely with the mundane: the quotidian and ordinary.[1] In science fiction fandom and related fandoms the term is used to refer, sometimes deprecatingly, to non-fans; this use of the term antedates 1955.
First, Mun means nothing, you made that up but nice try I give you that. The correct question should of been 'Do you know what a MuD is?' Which I do which tells my age, heh.
Nope, sorry you are still incorrect and it does not mean a freakin thing so there still stands no argument.
Sorry, you're wrong, the term mun may not be used anymore but it was frequently used back in the early days of online role playing. If it did not mean anything why did I get a half a dozen emails within a very short period of time from people that knew the answer?
It's amazing that a harmless and charming thread such as this can still be dirtied up with the whole "lies, your so wrong" crap.
Ridiculous.
"Mr. Rothstein, your people never will understand... the way it works out here. You're all just our guests. But you act like you're at home. Let me tell you something, partner. You ain't home. But that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the governor." - Pat Webb
"How old school of an online RPer are you?" probably would have gotten less people upset than the question posed. NOT that I feel they are justified in being upset... just saying.
-- Whammy - a 64x64 miniRPG - RPG Quiz - can you get all 25 right? - FPS Quiz - how well do you know your shooters?
I've been gaming online since UO and before that PnP D&D and I've never used the term, maybe because I didn't RP as much as some people.....then again if I did RP at all I think the more highly used term that most players used was OOC. I know I used it. And I'm sure more ppl know what that means, which was basically what mun was.
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
I've been gaming online since UO and before that PnP D&D and I've never used the term, maybe because I didn't RP as much as some people.....then agin if i did RP at all I think the more highly used term that most players used was OOC. I know I used it. And I'm sure more ppl know what that means, which was basicly what mun was.
It was a derogatory term used by RP elitists to refer to the people who weren't in their RP group/circle/community.
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This term was also used by many early UO players, EQ players and AC players. It is a carry over from AOL freeform chat room role playing, Gemstone III, NWN, The Realm and many other old online games. You the player are the Mun..short for mundane. ^_^ Characters are avatars, toons and since you are human and come from the mundane world = we're all Mun's!
Valador gets a cookie!
This term was also used by many early UO players, EQ players and AC players. It is a carry over from AOL freeform chat room role playing, Gemstone III, NWN, The Realm and many other old online games. You the player are the Mun..short for mundane. ^_^ Characters are avatars, toons and since you are human and come from the mundane world = we're all Mun's!
Valador gets a cookie!
And what do the rest of us that answered get? I want a bigger cookie.
Started in Quake and UO, before that I was playing fighting games in the arcades and the occassional table top. Honestly pretty much every "online game" before Quake and UO sounded like utter trash for shut-ins anyways.
This term was also used by many early UO players, EQ players and AC players. It is a carry over from AOL freeform chat room role playing, Gemstone III, NWN, The Realm and many other old online games. You the player are the Mun..short for mundane. ^_^ Characters are avatars, toons and since you are human and come from the mundane world = we're all Mun's!
Valador gets a cookie!
And what do the rest of us that answered get? I want a bigger cookie.
val gets the biggest cookie cause they had the cohones to answer publicly
This term was also used by many early UO players, EQ players and AC players. It is a carry over from AOL freeform chat room role playing, Gemstone III, NWN, The Realm and many other old online games. You the player are the Mun..short for mundane. ^_^ Characters are avatars, toons and since you are human and come from the mundane world = we're all Mun's!
Valador gets a cookie!
Hmm interesting. I played UO at its birth and never once saw the term 'mun'. Oh well.
This term was also used by many early UO players, EQ players and AC players. It is a carry over from AOL freeform chat room role playing, Gemstone III, NWN, The Realm and many other old online games. You the player are the Mun..short for mundane. ^_^ Characters are avatars, toons and since you are human and come from the mundane world = we're all Mun's!
Valador gets a cookie!
And what do the rest of us that answered get? I want a bigger cookie.
Okies!
I remember RPing in the AOL chats before UO ever came out, lol... The "world" was called RhyDin.
I remember rolling dice using the in chat command, doing "mass spar" battles in the MS Arena. People killing their characters off forever at the "Suicide Cliffs". There was also the Red Dragon Inn, which was like the busiest chat room ever for RP.
I played UO at release, DAOC, AO, AC, SB and a slew of other early MMOs. Mun must be from EQ or I assume I would know the term.
I played pong and chess online and have been here since last Thursday. Oh yeah, I'm so old school online gamer!
When did you start playing "old school" MMO's. World Of Warcraft?
Yep, Rhydin was the place, Red Dragon Inn, the Red Star Station. You were there! So was I. So were many others that went on to play such games as UO, and such. That was even before Meridian 59 and other such MuD's!
Oh and the Internet bills! OMG do you remember paying by the hour! $2.99 an hr! My dad hit the roof many a time when he got the bill! LOL!
Played UO at release. Eq1 from late beta. Never heard the term used.
Nope, sorry you are still incorrect and it does not mean a freakin thing so there still stands no argument.
Yep, Rhydin was the place, Red Dragon Inn, the Red Star Station. You were there! So was I. So were many others that went on to play such games as UO, and such. That was even before Meridian 59 and other such MuD's!
Haha, I was one of the guys always killing people in Death Matches and Assassination Attempts. I remember everyone and their dogs ran a "forum" (a sort of organization that governed over certain aspects of the chat RP, mostly dealing with the dice combat stuff).
Ah... the good old days. I remember everyone wanted to be a vampire and be in a clan. I remember THE clan to be in was Medri. I was pretty much the only angel character around. Everyone was vampire and werewolf... lol
What evil times... that was before DSL... AOL 2.0 on dial up...
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You are wrong. Some people have all ready e-mailed me the answer. And no...Mun is Mun and MuD is MuD. Two totally different things. ^_^
Hate to burst your bubble as well but it still has no meaning whatsoever whether you give an answer or not, the fact still stands as it does not exist and never has.
I think its one of those words that 5 people in a guild thought was a word.
You are wrong. Some people have all ready e-mailed me the answer. And no...Mun is Mun and MuD is MuD. Two totally different things. ^_^
Hate to burst your bubble as well but it still has no meaning whatsoever whether you give an answer or not, the fact still stands as it does not exist and never has.
In subcultural and fictional uses, a mundane is a person who does not belong to a particular group, according to the members of that group; the implication is that such persons, lacking imagination, are concerned solely with the mundane: the quotidian and ordinary.[1] In science fiction fandom and related fandoms the term is used to refer, sometimes deprecatingly, to non-fans; this use of the term antedates 1955.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundane
Nope, sorry you are still incorrect and it does not mean a freakin thing so there still stands no argument.
Sorry, you're wrong, the term mun may not be used anymore but it was frequently used back in the early days of online role playing. If it did not mean anything why did I get a half a dozen emails within a very short period of time from people that knew the answer?
Mun predates the terms char or toon by many years. Damn, Im only 24 and this thread makes me feel old.
It's amazing that a harmless and charming thread such as this can still be dirtied up with the whole "lies, your so wrong" crap.
Ridiculous.
"Mr. Rothstein, your people never will understand... the way it works out here. You're all just our guests. But you act like you're at home. Let me tell you something, partner. You ain't home. But that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the governor." - Pat Webb
No it just means you played chat room games.
"How old school of an online RPer are you?" probably would have gotten less people upset than the question posed. NOT that I feel they are justified in being upset... just saying.
- RPG Quiz - can you get all 25 right?
- FPS Quiz - how well do you know your shooters?
I've been gaming online since UO and before that PnP D&D and I've never used the term, maybe because I didn't RP as much as some people.....then again if I did RP at all I think the more highly used term that most players used was OOC. I know I used it. And I'm sure more ppl know what that means, which was basically what mun was.
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
It was a derogatory term used by RP elitists to refer to the people who weren't in their RP group/circle/community.
- RPG Quiz - can you get all 25 right?
- FPS Quiz - how well do you know your shooters?