MUME

I’m jumping into this and it’s very cool; thanks for the suggestion! I think the very-clear shared lore makes it so that it’s not a huge amount of work to get into it (for me anyway), and that consistency means you’re not going to have the weird issue that some of these seem to of clashing archetypes and themes (e.g. a telekinetic alien, a brooding goth gunslinger, and a magical rainbow pony walk into a bar).

That said, I do think the shared lore may restrict freedom a bit (I don’t know how plausible it would be to work towards making the events of the third age impossible…like leading a peasant revolt in Gondor or something).