Board Thread:Modded Servers/@comment-192.173.177.104-20181202225001

Nobody here will care. It's been, what - a year since Tales of Ages was public, or really had anything to do with the Lord of the Rings lore. But we still ran the mod.

Hi. I'm TristanTheBard, or VideoGamer0516, or Codebreaker 2100. I was senior staff on a little server called Tales of Ages. At one time, we were arguably one of the most popular servers, run by Obsidianwizard and SpawnedDead, along with me and Doctor_Dargon as the head admins. It's been awhile, I confess.

Tales of Ages was popular, but it was also infamous. We royally fucked the Lord of the Rings lore, and I certainly don't feel bad about that. We had so much of our own stuff. We had what was probably the most organized 'quest' system at the time, I think. And by that, I mean the questmakers threw a bunch of random shit onto the map and ran what was essentially a bad game of D&D in minecraft.

Those were some good times. I remember it all.. the time somebody griefed spawn, and we just left it like that as a bad joke. All the times we ripped off something actually good. All the times we bullied Lord_Mairon(sometimes lady). I remember all the incarnations.. all the owners. SpawnDead. Obsidianwizard. Doctor_Dargon, who lady became DragonBiscuit. Heartgold1234. Cookminers. Me, LegoDude0516. bowbow007.

For a while, we were unpopular. Drama. Coups. Organized rebellion. Bad memes about Donald Trump. Bans, restructuring. The time VilesBane, who may or may not be affiliated with the Jagex Troll, deleted the whole damn server. We added mods. Eventually, our playerbase shrunk to something like ten guys. I admit, it was a bad move on our part. Later, we just straight-up deleted the server from the lists. We tried a few times to revive it, to no avail. It was already dead, and we just had it on life support.

It's closing in fifteen days, now that Sylus, aka DragonBiscuit, aka Zane, aka Lord__Melkor, has stopped the payment on it(or rather his grandma has). But I've got to say: It was the best thing that ever happened to me. I spent my childhood on Tales of Ages, and it resulted in so much more. The higher-ups of the server formed a D&D group, and I am now an admin on a discord server that resulted from that group, having made so many friends, running so many campaigns. Tales of Ages will always have a special place in my heart. So, all of you.. If you loved ToA, if you hated it, if you've never heard of it, if you never played on it, if you were staff, if you were banned, no matter what, let's all raise a glass to a server that personified the concept of an antihero.

Staff - if this is against the rules, go ahead and delete it, or if it's not in the right place, move it. Let's just take a moment to reminisce. 