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Role-Player's Vault
The '''Role-Player's Vault''' is a collection of [[role playing game]]s, written by Samuel Stoddard and hosted on the [[RinkWorks]] web site.

[[As of 2005]], the vault has two games available for play:
* ''Murkon's Refuge'', a game where a group of [[hero]]es have to descend a [[labyrinth]] ten levels deep to defeat the evil archmage Murkon.
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There are a few differences to ''Murkon's Refuge'':
* When Murkon dies, he is not automatically transported to the previous city to be resurrected. Instead, 
he htime rewinds to the last toime you used one of the many checkpoints available on thescattered around the levels (including one that's always on the entry space to each level). If none is available, the game restarts from the beginning. A checkpoint can only be used onceEverything is the same as when you first reached that checkpoint, except that you have no monsters with you.  If you haven't reached any checkpoints (you're at the beginning of the game, or close to it), you simply start over. A checkpoint can only be used to save your progress once, but you can rewind back to the checkpoint as many times as is needed, so you never really lose permanently.
* Murkon has the ability to summon monsters to help him kill player parties. These monsters follow Murkon around. However, they can't be directly controlled, but instead act on their free will in battles.

===Notes===
The idea of a heroic quest in reverse, playing the evil overlord, has been used at least twice before.
* The original ''Wizardry'' series included a game called ''The Return of Werdna'', where the player took the role of Werdna, the main enemy of the previous game.
* The [[United Kingdom|British]] software company [[Bullfrog Productions]] developed a role playing game called ''[[Dungeon Keeper]]'', where the player's job is to maintain an evil presence in an underground labyrinth and kill off heroic parties.

==External links==
*[http://www.rinkworks.com/vault/index.cgi The Role-Player's Vault]

[[Category:Online games]]