A CAREER FOR A NEW CENTURY: THE FANTASIST
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    Industrial Prose & Magic is the world's first commercial MUD
development system.  We at Continuum Software would like to help build a
new industry based on MUDding that will allow people to make a real
living inventing and providing imaginary worlds for other people to live
in.  There isn't yet a word for such a person.  For now, we're going to
use the term "fantasist".

    We won't kid you, it isn't easy to support yourself today as a
fantasist, unless you already have a commercial BBS with lots of
incoming lines. Most of the people reading this probably don't, at least
yet. We're looking to the future, perhaps just a few years from now,
when the joy and addiction of MUDding has spread beyond it's roots on
college campuses, and moved towards the mainstream.  (Much as Dungeons &
Dragons did in the late 70s, moving from a campus addiction to a
billion-dollar-a-year industry).

    But let's talk about what you CAN do in the present.  There are
people already making a respectable amount of money on the side right
now, two ways:

     1.  By setting up a MUD with our credit accounting system (using the
         commercial edition), or your own BBS subscriptions (standard
         edition).  With the commercial version, you can charge users
         by the minute; with our standard edition, you can boost your own
         sales of BBS subscriptions by offering a MUD on your system.

     2.  We are beginning to publish a line of pre-made MUDs for IP&M,
         for people that don't want to build one from scratch.  We are
         currently accepting freelance submissions from members of The
         Fantasists Guild, the international association of IP&M
         developers and producers.  Extremely generous royalty rates are
         paid to talented fantasists. See the SUBMIT.TXT file in our demo
         version for guidelines.