MORDOR 1.066b INFORMATION
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Mordor is a large-scale Windows Fantasy Role-Playing game that is in the 
final stages of BETA.  Since the game is so close to release, a PUBLIC BETA 
has been made available to all, allowing anybody access to a limited version 
of the game.  

INTRODUCTION
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Welcome to the world of Mordor, where magic is known, adventure is expected, 
exploration is required and discovery is the goal.

At your fingertips is a vast underground world where no one has ventured 
before!  With a selection  of a dozen races and guilds, you may mold the 
characters you create to your taste for adventure. You will have the ability 
to explore this unforgiving place, and hopefully live to tell about it!

It is your job to put together characters and parties that will explore and 
map this underground world. You may know your goals right from the start, or 
make it up as you go along. However you like to play, you will find room 
after room of  creatures, good & evil, their treasures, and items of magic. 
As you career through the hallways,  you must keep your eyes open and your 
wits drawn, because you don't know what will be around the next corner.


Since little is known about the depths of Mordor, all that you will have 
to go on is rumors, general information, and the drive to explore and 
discover.  You will be the one who will set the foundation for every 
character to follow and you will help establish the basis of knowledge for 
this place.  By your efforts, the unknown will become known. Experience & 
knowledge will be your strongest allies...

Mordor was built to be as realistic as possible.  With this in mind, 
characters can interact with other characters, pick up and resurrect dead 
characters, cast spells and exchange items, and even wander around the 
dungeon with each other.  This is what makes the game really enjoyable. 
In order to interact with another character, they must be in the same room 
(or in the city), or in the same party.  Wherever the selected character was 
last run (before exiting the game) will be the place they will stay until 
run again.

In addition to organizing parties of characters, Mordor also allows 
adventurers to befriend, bind and control the creatures of the depths 
as well.  This allows a single character not to be alone as they adventure 
without organizing a party of other characters.


Overall, Mordor is a VERY large game in the sense of playtime and 
exploration.  Even from the smallest details of character stats to swinging 
the most powerful weapon in combat or casting an incredible spell, the 
finely-tuned engine of Mordor was built to take this type of FRP game to 
the limits, giving the player a sense of incredible depth to the game.


Experience a FRP game like you never have before - experience MORDOR!


OVERVIEW
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Mordor is the first game of its type on the market (for Windows or DOS).  
It's much too large to give even a general overview of, but here's a list 
of some of the Features that are included:

	* Windows 95 Compatibility
	* 256 Color Graphics
	* Musical Sound Track (Digital with proper Hardware)
	* Action Sound FX
	* Hundreds of Unique Items and Monsters
	* Single or Multiple Character Play
	* Automapping
	* An advanced sizing system allowing forms and graphics to match 
	  most any resolution.
	* Extensive flexiblity in game configuration and setup
	* A game play environment so advanced, one can play for hundreds 
	  and even thousands of hours!!

There is really no game on the market to compare Mordor with.  The only way 
to find out what it's like is to Download it!

REQUIREMENTS
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Mordor requires the following to run:

	* Microsoft Windows 3.x, Workgroups for Windows 3.x, 
	  Windows NT or 100% Compatible Windows Operating System
	* 386/33 or greater processor
	* 4 MB RAM Available to Windows
	* 5 MB of Disk Space
	* 640x480x16 color VGA

Mordor recommends the following to run:

	* Microsoft Windows 3.x, Workgroups for Windows 3.x, 
	  Windows NT or 100% Compatible Windows Operating System
	* 486/33 or greater processor
	* 8 MB RAM Available to Windows with Caching
	* 6 MB of Disk Space
	* 800x600x256 color VGA
	* MIDI & WAVE compatible Sound Card (Sound Blaster, etc.)


MORE INFORAMTION
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For more information, check out Section 17 (Mordor Betatest) of the GAMERS 
forum.  This is where all of the action, announcement and information takes 
place!

DOWNLOADING MORDOR
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If you grabbed this file from a BBS, the Microsoft Network, or from the 
Internet, you should be able to download Mordor from the same location you 
got this file from.  If not, You can find MORDOR.ZIP (which now contains 
the WAVE files as well as the game files) in the above mentioned section 
of the GAMERS forum on CompuServe.  After downloading this file, unzip it 
into a TEMP directory on your hard drive and run SETUP.  A list of Internet 
addresses that contain Mordor will also be available soon...

That should get you up and running! 

Thank you for your interest!

David Allen
Mordor Creator and Developer
