
Asheron's Call - Darktide
A somewhat edited screenshot of the game that spawned the community where Toadwater originated
Even keeping the old forum up would be a gigantic security problem, as well as require considerable effort to maintain due to the ancient and bug-riddled nature of the forum software. Plus, what's more sad than a forum where the newest post is 18 months old ? So instead, we set up this library of memories for people to feel nostalgic about.
Way back around the year of our Lord 1999, in the outskirts of the fan community of a game called Asheron's Call, one of the weirdest games of the Internet was born. A plugin to an open source forum software called YaBB in its infancy, it quickly developed into a standalone web game the likes of which had never been seen before.
Can't write all of this in one evening.
Only you can contribute more memories! Mail them to me
A somewhat edited screenshot of the game that spawned the community where Toadwater originated
We spent hours and hours staring at something much like this
The inventory, better known as 'Hoard', of a midgame dwarf
The groundwork for a newbie farm of trees, with roads and healing trees laid down
The insane base seven coordinate system explained
An explanation and map of the portal system which connected the TW2 world locations
The big map of Toadwater 2
Stories of the histories of the players of this game and how it influenced their lives
I'll be damned if I'm going to be the first one to write my own personal history here.
But you totally should.
Shoutouts from players who didn't have as much to say or write
"I'll be damned if I'm going to be the first one to write a stupid quote."