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UOPF

Ultima Online Paradise Found, a UO freeshard that emulates UO in the ML era running since 2004. It's the shard I play and very likely will be the last shard I ever play. In the six years it's been running, it has greatly expanded on this base with some of the most creative things I've ever seen in UO. The best part of the shard is easily the staff transparency; they're actually there. You can talk to them. I've played many free shards in my time, but I easily have more staff interaction on this shard alone than all the others put together, most of which on other shards was only because something broke or because staff thought I was breaking rules. It also helps that the staff is easily likable on top of that.

And just to get it out of the way: Yes, fine, it's a trammie carebear shard; wah wah PvPers. Christ, the game was actually created with more in mind than just PvP. Here's a fact you may want to embrace: No matter how hard your shard master tries, they will never realistically emulate classic UO PvP. They just won't. It can't be done, simply because the player base has changed. We rarely to never used wands or explosion pots back in the day. Are you kidding me? If you weren't able to set-up a stack of purples to be hidden under a fur for someone to stand on, where you would throw the necessary purple to set them all off, you never used them. And wands? Psh. New tactics means new demands means new setting and conditions means not classic PvP. It's a whole other beast now, and it's lame. Get over it. You'll be the better for it.


OMG

OMG is the guild tag for the Only Mages Guild on UOPF. It could also be simply Only Mage, because frankly I think I might be the only true mage on the shard. And no, having 120 Magery/Necro/Spellweaving or whatever else doesn't make you a mage. Nor does randomly dropping Withers in champ spawns. If your base Int is 25 (or 40 with the donate scroll), you're not a Mage. If your main weapon(s) doesn't involve words of power, you're not a mage. Mirror Images are definitely not the sign of a mage either, exactly the opposite really. I would say that we're accepting members, but I don't expect many other people to limit themselves this way on a shard where you can GM/Legend every skill.