@Briant,  actually people can't loot your corpse. You can lose it, but apparently there are players who specialize in corpse retrieval and will help.

With the quests and time, well sinse you only need to find one mob and you can  speedwalk streight to the area and use the "where mob" command to find what room the mob is in, and sinse you have I believe an hour for each quest I've not  found the time a problem, much better than say the timed quests used to be in materiamagica which were too harsh, oh, and for campaigns you actually get several days.

As for speedwalks though, I do agree there, the zones are fun, but you don't really get an idea of the full size or layout of the world, which is a shame, and very different from a game like alter,  materiamagica or clok.

You can also go to the temple, and pray to the high priestess to get your corpse back.  I did that the first time I died.  You can only do that three times I think, but it is another option.  It is easy to get help though.  When I died the second time, I asked for help on the newbie channel, and someone was there within two minutes.

Once I got used to the game, the timing of quests didn't bother me.

I actually love the speedwalks, and I wish more Muds had them.  I feel like it frees me up to play parts of the game quests etc., and it gives me the opportunity to explore areas I might not be able to get to otherwise. I just feel like it gives me the best of both worlds, because if I have something specific to do, I don't waste a lot of time searching back and forth just to get where I'm going, but then I still have the option to explore at a leisurely pace when I feel like doing that.

I've just returned to this place, my name is Hathron on there if anyone wants to chat or anything
trying out mage as a primary for curiosities sake, though all the classes seem fairly interesting to be honest.

the mud seems to be down... what the

I can't connect. is the info ardmud.org port 23?

I have seen them have temporary blips but they're usually back up within minutes.

mmm, try attack kobold or kill kobold? or maybe use one of your spells or skills to start combat.

I dunno. Aardwolf prides itself on its questing (not goals, questing) which is extremely repetitive and tedious. I'm sorry, but having virtually the same text spat at you every x minutes so you can get a handful of qp is boring. I want my goals to give me qp. Sometimes they do, mostly they don't. What's more, you're expected to get literally tens of thousands of quest points eventually so you can purchase the best gear, so you're in for the long haul. A lot of people on Aardwolf use bots/triggers/that sort of thing for questing, if that gives you any idea.
I also have some serious problems with the sheer lack of cohesion on that game. Mobs do random damage types (I once had a cow doing suction damage, and a tornado doing grep damage...what the hell is grep, anyway, except a programming term?), goals are rife with guess-the-syntax puzzles, and the tier/remort system is, in a word, brutal. Probably not as brutal as other mods, it's true, and they do sometimes have double-EXP bonuses in play and whatnot, but it's still extremely repetitive. Take it from me. I have a tier 1 venomist (not a tier 0, which is what you start as), so I've been around the block a few times. I've also done approximately 75 goals, and frankly the only reason I was able to do some of them was by looking them up on the internet. If you have to rely on guess-the-syntax for artificial difficulty inflation, then you're doing it wrong as a programmer.

So this is the sort of place you go for mindless killing and questing. Its lore is basically nil. Its RP is basically nil. Its systems are very grind-oriented. Its cohesion is basially nil. Its goals can be interesting but usually involve guessing verbs or syntax. So...uh, yeah. Have fun, I guess? I pop in there every so often when I'm cataclysmically bored.