Defend your honor in combat and meet players from around the world in an infinitely deep dungeon filled with monsters and treasure.
Sherwood Dungeon, a browser-based massive multiplayer online role playing game where you defend your honor in combat with players from around the world. Sherwood features an infinitely deep dungeon filled with monsters. Since it is playable from your browser downloading is unecessary, although you must have Shockwave 7 or better to play.
Unlike most other MMORPGs, you do not need to sign up for an account to play, but there is an option to do so. You just type in a character name, and start playing. The next time you play on the same computer, you will still have the character, no matter what name you put in. However, if you have an account, you can play on computers other than your usual one and still have the same character, you merely need enter a password.
Making a character
Whenever you wish, you can change the way your character looks. There are five different general options for your character’s appearance: knight, viking, skeleton, and gladiator. You can also choose from a variety of different colors for your character. The female characters have the further option of changing hair-styles, and the gladiator has options for changing helmets.
Controls
Sherwood uses keyboard controls for navigation, combat and chatting with other players. The left mouse button is used for all other user interface functions, like setting up your equipment or managing your inventory. Drag the right mouse button to orbit the camera around your character and look around the world.
Moving and Attacking
Use the to move your character around the world. Hold down the control key to Attack with your weapon. You’ll continue to attack for as long as the key is pressed.
Blocking Attacks
Holding down and at the same time will allow you to block attacks from monsters or other players. If you block an attack successfully, your next attack will do double damage. Block two attacks in a row and your next attack will do triple damage. Good timing is required to block effectively so practice this move.
Chatting with Other Players
To talk to other players, type what you want to say into the chat console and press or to send. Your message will be sent to all the other players in the area and appear in their chat console. Remember, don’t tell anyone private information.
Dancing
You can dance by holding down and at the same time.
Quests
After first logging into Sherwood, the game automatically takes you to the Castle level. Once you cross the bridge into Sherwood Castle, there’s a Keep to the left containing the entrance to the dungeon and two NPCs (Non-Playing Characters). The NPC in the purple tunic by the dungeon entrance is named “Lady Marian”. Lady Marian can give you quests to complete in the dungeon for rewards of special weapons, shields or helmets. Just walk up to Lady Marian and click on her to receive a quest. The mouse pointer will indicate “Click to Talk” when your mouse pointer is over Lady Marian and you are close enough.
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