Therian Saga

Therian Saga is an online MMORPG built around text-based storytelling and a large set of rules that governs how your hero develops and acts. Its systems draw on MUDs, strategy games and tabletop role-playing games. You decide how to progress, develop skills and plan what your characters will do, with both scheduled actions and live activities to pursue.

Skills and crafting

The outcome of an action is calculated from your hero, tool, companion, location and any magic involved. Crafting is complex: skills are distributed from the materials through to the finished product. Progress is demanding, and reaching your goals takes work.

Play on your schedule

You can schedule your hero’s actions and they continue while you are offline. You can leave in the middle of a dungeon or fight and return later; in a fight against another player, your characters keep fighting as well as they can while you are away. A missed play session usually does not stop your heroes from progressing if they still have tasks to complete.

Short sessions can be used to set tasks, check on progress, trade or socialize. When you have more time, you can take on quests and adventures, raid dungeons, fight other players in the arena or join a boss run. You can also have your hero sleep or continue working overnight. The game can be played in sessions as short as 15 minutes or as long as 20 hours, without requiring you to stay at the computer.

Story and world

Text is the main medium for the game’s old-school storytelling. The world is governed by a broad set of mathematical rules, and years of content are available.