Re: No Harry Potter MUDs
@JaseKay, Yeah, I am aware that skill checks etc do take a lot of back end coding. It is possible, when you look at something like flexible survival, which is scarily unique given it's x rated premise, but you'd need to be pretty dedicated to do it, and as you said player management is fun.
If it were me, I'd probably just circumvent a lot of the major book adaptation problems by setting the game either in a different time period or place to the main potter series, EG Hogwarts in the twenty twenties rather than the nineties, or maybe somewhere like a modern dermstrang (which also has the advantage of having really huge grounds full of dark creatures), the way that some Lotr muds work.
Or, just straight off saying that it was an alternative version of the world, which is what I believe some Wheel of time and Pern based muds have done.
Either way, unless someone has a solid year or so to dedicate to coding such a thing and then a way of hosting it, and then some admins who are willing to run it, this is probably a mostly academic discussion anyway.
Pottermore I didn't think was a game so much as an informationnal website with a few miniigames stuck on the top, though as I only ever browsed articles from them I can't say exactly.
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