Materia Magica is a free, feature-rich text-based multiplayer fantasy where action, adventure, and immersive role play occur in real time, twenty-four hours a day.
Explore over eight million locations within the vast world of Alyria, select from a vast variety of fascinating weapons, armor, and artifacts, meet and interact with thousands of unique creatures, all while experiencing the adventure simultaneously with hundreds of other players!
The best in multiplayer interactive fantasy
# Endless Realm of Adventure: Materia Magica features a huge, totally original, realistic universe (you wont find it anywhere else) - with over eight million locations to explore, as well as remarkable and numerous means of travel, such as horses and dragons, magic carpets, enchanted brooms, powerful worldgates, strange devices of gnomish design, and much more! With seas, jungles, plains, desert, mountain areas and underground, you have virtually unlimited possibilities for adventure. In addition, Materia Magicas visible compass provides information and direction as to where you can go and what might await you there.
# ANSI-based Terrain: We provide ANSI-based, fully colorized, seamless wilderness terrain connecting cities, dungeons, towers, castles, and many other expansive structures (See some Screen Shots to fully appreciate this feature).
# Experience-adjusted Wilderness Encounters: Experience many wilderness encounters solely based on your gaming experience - the difficulty of the world grows with your character allowing you to progress at your own pace.
# Player-controlled Ships: Our shipwrights offer player-ownable and controllable ships that can be sailed across the wide blue oceans of Alyria. Travel the world with your comrades in your very own ship, visiting faraway ports and perhaps even brave the Great Whirlpool to explore the vast stretches of the underground ocean. Live the seafaring life youve always dreamed.
# Sea-Based Combat and NPC-controlled Ships: If you or your clan own a ship (or an armada!), you may want to venture out past the Council-patrolled zones of the Alyrian ocean and seek out adventure on the high seas. Battle pirate ships and sea monsters using cannon and ballistas, and keep fleeing ships from escaping with your harpoon. Recover pirate booty and bounties, but dont forget to stock up on cannonballs and black powder before leaving port!
# More Realistic, Interactive NPCs: The non-player-character (NPC) interactions are sophisticated and elegant. NPCs dont just stand around doing nothing, they continue on with the business of their lives. Players and NPCs interacting with each other take the gaming experience to a new level.
# Unique Mark System of Exploration: Participate in our original Mark system of game exploration to guarantee an Adventurers knowledge of the game. Go on a quest to gain the Mark of Fire, so you can pass the Hellbent Mountain guards! Gain the Mark of the Traveller by questing! Search for the hermit that will give you the Mark of Force! Marks are given by the Powers for performing certain tasks or reaching certain levels of expertise, and are an exciting way of measuring your progress.
# Immense Underground World: There have been a rash of recent earthquakes that have revealed a vast underground world, complete with dangerous, outcast cities, a central sea, mysterious volcanic caverns, and a ferocious whirlpool. The Great Alyrian Underground, as it has become known, provides a thrilling experience for experienced Adventurers with its many tunnels, caverns, and secrets.