I am braking this review down into 4 categories: Friendliness, Staff, Roleplaying, and General.

Friendliness: Haven of the Embraced has a very friendly staff and most of the player base is helpful and friendly as well. You'll find them often times joking and picking on one another in good humor over OOC channels. They are one of the more newbie friendly MUD's I have ever played with players and Staff alike willing to answer questions. The player base at the moment is small but many of them will help out new players with directions, finding decent gear, and even helping them to level. Over all a very friendly and nice Mud.

Staff: Haven staff is knowledgeable about the mud itself and about the roleplaying side of the mud as well. What staff members do not know they will try to answer as quickly as possible.

Roleplaying: Roleplaying on Haven in my experience is quite fun and most of the player base is willing to roleplay. There is a dice system for rolling feats based on character sheet information and the roleplay based commands are good. They could use a few extra roleplay oriented support options like an extra sheet players can edit to add additional information. But over all the roleplay environment on Haven in my experience is good and worth the effort.

General: Haven in general is a good mud and well worth the visit. Come by, check it out. The player base is small right now since it just started backup recently and is still in a transitional stage but I think you'll like what you find. Bear in mind however that Haven will eventually be switched to a new code base at some point but character won't be wiped they'll be transferred. So it is still worth it in my opinion.