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I first played Threshold rpg in 2001. It was my first experience with an online game of any type and I was immediately intimidated by the entire concept of a "MUD".  "How am I going to know the commands? Where do I go? How do I get there?  What the hell just killed me?"  These were all questions that went through my head very quickly after I began playing Threshold.  Luckily for me, Threshold has a highly active and super helpful staff dedicated to helping newbies as well as a newbie help channel for all OOC questions. 

RP enforced?  Yeah, frightening for a new player, especially one like me who had never roleplayed with anyone since the age of 9.  "Enforced" conjures up images of "arrest" and "prison".  Not places I want to end up.  But Threshold is likely the most newbie friendly MUD in existence and I quickly found an atmosphere that invites one to roleplay in a sort of... utopian community where the enforcers offer helpful reminders as opposed to punitive action akin to the spanish inquisition.  With many of my fears laid to rest about roleplay I was free to explore the rich and unique world at my own pace as I navigated the easily-understood help file system.

As I began to grow more comfortable with the commands and the game itself I quickly realized that I was not alone.  Threshold absorbed me into its roleplay like a gelatinous cube.  Though unlike a gelatinous cube which takes weeks, or years to digest that which it absorbs, I quickly found myself become one with the roleplaying environment.  The playerbase engaged me, the newcomer.  I was recruited into class specific guilds, approached by missionaries from the various player run churches, and robbed from, all on my first day of play!

Threshold RPG inspired a longtime love of MMOs for me in a newbie friendly environment.  Of all the MUDs I have ever visited since, Threshold will always be my favorite.