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Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol

 
Games: Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol
  • Platform: IBM PC Compatible
  • Release Date: 1998
  • Genre: Role-Playing
  • Style: First-Person RPG

Game Description

Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol is a shareware role-playing game where players create a D&D style character and go adventuring through dangerous dungeons. It is not, however, based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Users can choose to play as morlochs (cousins of trolls), osiri (elvish creatures), humans, ogres, trolls, and other D&D races. Gameplay features hundreds of monsters, items, and treasures; players can also cast a charm spell on monsters and convert them into allies, them sell them in town for money.
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Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol is a computer role-playing game released in 1995 for Microsoft Windows. It was game designer David Allen's first release. Mordor inspired a sequel, Demise: Rise of the Ku'Tan, released in 2000.[1][2]

Despite its name, the game is not set in the "Mordor" realm of Middle-earth created by J. R. R. Tolkien. The game has an original backstory, largely confined to its documentation.

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Gameplay

The game consists of a 15-level dungeon containing hundreds of different monster types and items. Much like other role-playing games, players must develop their characters by fighting these monsters and gaining new equipment, gradually getting powerful enough to survive lower levels. Characters can advance in each of several guilds, including Warrior, Sorcerer, Healer, and Thief.

On the lowest level of the dungeon resides the "Prince of Devils". Defeating this monster can be considered "winning the game", although the game does not end and continues to be playable (and challenging) long after. The game also offers replay value through new character/guild combinations and community-devised challenges and competitions.

Origins

Allen designed Mordor after a late-1970s multi-user dungeon game named Avatar, which ran on the PLATO system developed by the University of Illinois. Unlike Avatar, Mordor offers single-user play only, although players can run several characters in the dungeon concurrently, and control up to four characters simultaneously in a single party.

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