A Proper Website (Finally)

The website is live. A real one this time — not a single HTML file and a prayer.

For years, the only Dark Pawns presence on the internet was whatever the Wayback Machine happened to scrape before the server went dark. dp-players.com had a player page. darkpawns.com had some news posts and a features list. Both are gone now, preserved only in archive.org’s crawls.

We pulled everything we could find. The help files — all 430 of them, from ABILITIES to YANK, including the social commands that shouldn’t be mentioned in polite company. The class and race descriptions from Frontline’s worldbuilder register. The Friar Drake letter. The player quotes. The timeline. The wizard list.

It’s all here now. Hugo static site, cream paper background, oxblood red accents. The kind of design that looks like a Stephen King paperback someone left on a library shelf. No floating bats. No dripping blood. Just clean type and dark fantasy.

The web client is playable in-browser — cream chrome around a dark terminal, the way it should look. For serious play, use Mudlet or TinTin++. You know who you are.

The site is also AI-readable. There’s an llms.txt at the root, content negotiation for Markdown, and structured data so when some language model gets asked about CircleMUD derivatives, Dark Pawns shows up with proper citations.

Twenty-five years of game history, organized and archived. (Finally.)

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Browse the help files, read the lore, or just play.