Rising Kingdoms is a nicely designed mud with a bit of something for everyone. The immortals are very helpful and polite, and will not hesitate to help a new player get acclimated to the game. The players are pretty cool too. There are options for player killing, but involvement in it is optional. The mud comes complete with a nicely designed newbie academy, not the stock mud school but a completely customized newbie school. There are lots of things to do, from quests and expeditions to finding chocolate bunnies and Scrabble tiles and playing Guess the Phrase. There's a few stock areas, but mostly original, and builders add new zones. In fact two have been added recently, Vally of Titans and Jungle of Xyzzyxx. Any way you look at it, Rising Kingdoms is a great mud. Log in and look for me, Zhuuraan or Tygrah. Happy Mudding!