The Ruins of Cawdor

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The Ruins of Cawdor
Developer(s) Ybarra Productions
Sierra On-Line
Publisher(s) Sierra On-Line
Platform(s) MS-DOS
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Release 1995 (Incl. with INN)
Genre(s) MUD
RPG
Mode(s) Single player
Multiplayer

The Ruins of Cawdor was the last of three graphical MUDs for the online community The Sierra Network, which later became The ImagiNation Network. It was designed by Richard Aronson (author of the widely reprinted RPG humor story Eric and the Dread Gazebo), and based loosely on Macbeth.

Eric and the Dread Gazebo

"The Tale of Eric and the Dread Gazebo" is a role-playing game (RPG) inspired anecdote, made famous by Richard Aronson. Aronson's account first appeared in print in the APA Alarums and Excursions in either 1985 or 1986. It was reprinted in Mensa's RPG APA The Spell Book in 1987, from there to The Mensa Bulletin in 1988, and then it jumped to the internet. It has remained popular and been frequently plagiarized ever since. The story, as it has always been published, was "Eric and the Gazebo" but many plagiarized accounts on the internet have added the word "Dread" to the title.

The game was released in 1995, and it was the third one in the series, preceded by The Shadow of Yserbius in 1992 and The Fates of Twinion in 1993. Only The Shadow of Yserbius and The Fates of Twinion were released in offline versions that could be played without an internet connection.

The Shadow of Yserbius, originally published by Sierra On-Line and developed by Joe Ybarra of Ybarra Productions, was the first of three graphical MUDs for the online community. Opening to rave reviews, The Shadow of Yserbius, according to industry critics, set the standard by which all future MUDs would be judged. The game was followed by two sequels entitled The Fates of Twinion (1993) and The Ruins of Cawdor (1995). Until recently, only The Shadow of Yserbius and The Fates of Twinion were playable in offline mode.

The Ruins of Cawdor has been patched to allow for offline play.


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