How much content does this mud have, in terms of rooms/mobs/quests? And does it have a webpage?

@Dark, the quests are really about adventuring and discovering the world. Keywords come in handy to get information but are not the core of the thing. Sorry about the ASCII map and generally speaking the ASCII art. It is a hard balance to find between 100% text and some "graphical" features, though we have been adding a web-based client that provides images, so we could surely remove some of these old ASCII arts. To my knowledge nothing vital is contained within them, but I'm here to help if you have any doubts or get drown in a flood of them.

@Victorious, Dark got it right on the website . In terms of raw numbers Frandum has 8000+ rooms, 12000+ items, 1700+ mobs, 1100+ quests

Thanks Dark for your comment. Our goal with Frandum is to propose a journey: not a fighting pit (combat can very often be avoided), not a safe haven for sudoku experts, and especially not a dwarf stuffing experience. The world of Frandum has history, it has inhabitants who have their lives and their goals, and if you forget about magic in the end we feel that the world is logical and consistent. So you won't be expected to do something that does not make any sense, won't be punished if you look carefully and heed the warnings and you shouldn't be clueless if you spend time exploring and talking.

Each guild has one enemy guild that generally does pretty much the same (travellers vs. rangers, healers vs. alchemists..), to the exception of fighters vs. elementalists. The people who welcome you should tell you about their enemies, as do the various helps (but it was kinda missing for travellers so we will add it. I can demote you from the travellers guild if you like). Guilds are places to learn skills, get benefits and quests but are not a must have. Indeed you can become a Wizard without joining any guild.

I guess that since your post you found the way out of the chapel by looking at Jodai. A great many things are triggered by looking at people and stuff.

As for the maps, there is a "go" command that will take you to a place you already know if you are not too far, as well as a track command increasing in efficiency as you progress in the adventuring skill. Would it be useful to have a "trimmed down" version of the map commands removing all the decorating dashes?

A proposed suggestion I just thought of: Making a quest arrow for your current objective in the diary. Some may say this might take away from exploration, but I disagree. With 1100+ quests, surely there are quests you can complete on the way to your main objective. Similar to the temple map, the arrow could, if the Oricle was your main objective, lead you to it. Similarly, if your objective changes the location of said arrow will change, and so there should be an ability to switch it back to the Oricle/previous objective in the diary.
This would make it like a modern RPG in a video game such as Skyrim. When you get a quest, an arrow points to where you need to be. Like the chapel map, the text could say your objective from this current location is south.
What do people think of this? I think the feature would be useful for everyone, not just for screen reader users. Once you get there you explore the area, look at and use things to figure stuff out.
As I said, with the number of quests available, 1100+--keep in mind the plus, which means that more are being added... I don't know how often. I will try to find a guild in the main village. Elementalist perhaps.

@Dark, go actually makes you walk without you having to type anything. It could be completed with a command telling you the direction (in case you want to know without actually going there). Ok for the maps, I'll leave them be.
Regarding recall, the penalty is mentioned in the help and in the tutorial, without telling exactly what it is. This can be improved: it costs you your non-owned stuff and half your hit points. For the rope you left before I could answer yesterday but by searching you found a new one and just forgot to get it, eh eh. You never have to abandon a quest: at worst if things got wrong (e.g. you killed the wrong person) you can reset and start again.

@Orin, not a bad idea but there are quests and quests. When I say 1100+ quests, it means unitary achievements that are noted in your diary. A single, wizard-type quest generally contains 5 to 15 of these unitary items. And all quests do not start by someone asking something of you specifically, sometimes you have to look around to find what could be done. Eventually, as the game is entirely open (you can go wherever you want and quest in any order you want), it would be a little too directive to always point you to whatever new hint someone gave you. And besides, there's the fun of exploring, finding your way based upon general hints. Long story short: I think an extension of the go command working on known cities and villages (kingdoms are tougher) and telling you their rough direction (e.g. "quite far to the north and close to the east") could be useful. This information is provided in the maps on the website and automaps of the client, so it's only fair it is also available for telnet users. We do have latitude and longitude, so it shouldn't be too hard to determine. I'll note it down and work on it whenever free time appears.

hi all, I was playing around with this mud and it's pretty nice so far.
however I am stuck at the tutorial where I am at the in and when I go west it says some force of the old woman prevents you from getting out of the in.
any tips?

when I talk to the woman, it says do you want to tell me about your dreams, young one?

Hi Frandum!
Yeah, this mud is realy nice! And the direction and go commands are very good ideas. But it is a little bit tricky without having a list of allready vissited locations or known places. So i think it would be good to have something like a map diary for this.
Keep up this good work! I will check it out!

Hi,
It's been a while but we just wanted to let you know that we have added a set of cool features for screenreader users, including an ascii command to remove those nasty decorations. We also had the pleasure of welcoming a new screen-reader Wizard who did it all by himself, so we are confident your experience in Frandum will be quite fruitful and enjoyable. Feel free to report issues in game or here, should you dare face the new Frandum...

Having some issues, the most urgent being that when I login and try to move, there is some serious lag. I have to hit w a few times and enter, or whichever direction.
Then, isn't there some kind of quest command to remember what I was last assigned? I was in the Oracle's hut, but ot lost and can't find my way back again due to this lag issue. And, since I haven't gained any levels yet, I can't read the "nothing" book? Kinda lost at what to do right now. I can't remember which last quest i did and what the advice was that said NPC offered me to do next.