This portion of our site is for people who have never played MUDs before.

MUDs predate internet browsers so there are no graphics in the game and they require almost no data- it's entirely text based play. The immersion depends on your imagination and my writing.

Sabrous itself has a tutorial area for new players that will teach you the basics of play. You are not able to save your character file until after you complete this area. How fast this takes to complete depends on how fast you read and how good your English reading comprehension is, but it is designed to take less than a half hour.

MUD itself stands for Multi User Dungeon, a sort of the great great grand-program of the modern MMO. It's a nostalgic form of internet entertainment!

Best played with a small group of buddies, if you can convince some friends to join and group together you will have the ideal MUD experience.

The basic engine Sabrous runs (SMAUG) is designed based upon Dungeons & Dragons. During early levels you're intended to focus more on gameplay so will be need to eat & drink in-game, but as you level up it becomes easier to just spend time idle.

Sabrous is and always has been free.
Donations Are Nice Tho.

Why Play Sabrous?
While there's lots of MUDs out there, Sabrous is unique in a few ways.
We have an extensive system of pre-coded socials, in addition to the emote function.
There's 12 custom character races, many of which you can find in my other work, Inhuman.
The entire thing is 100% original with no stock SMAUG content (except that which is hardcoded to support spells etc)

There's also 12 classes, though only two are custom... coding the classes is very hard, turns out! lmao

If it sounds like Sabrous is something you'd like to play, you can either use our web-based client or search for a MUD client for your OS.

The following are helpful for players who are new to MUDs in general:
-> Area Maps Directory
-> THE NEWBIE GUIDE + Kentrin's basic newbie guide. (download the .zip 1.73mb)
->Command List + a list of pretty basic commands that you will want to use
->FAQ + the general FAQ