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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 8253483" data-attributes="member: 21169">Googling the word "Soselian", it doesn’t seem to appear in an rpg context anywhere except this MUD. The weapon names on the left-hand side look 'off' – they’re not lined up properly – but the weapon art seems fairly professional. Therefore I think the text on the left might've been added to a pre-existing image.I’m not sure where that image came from however. Most of the weapons appear in the list on page 37 of the 1e AD&D PHB. The "bo stick" and "jo stick" in the image on the Staves page, which has the same art style, also appear in the 1e PHB. The inclusion of these Asian weapons makes me think the image comes from something that was inspired by D&D rather than a book about arms and armour. The art style seems consistent with the 1e era – it’s not as fancy as the art in, for example, the 2e AD&D Arms and Equipment Guide.However a few of the weapons – Ox Tongue, Corseque Bat’s Wing, Fauchard-Guisarme – don’t appear in the 1e PHB. "Ox tongue" and "fauchard-guisarme" are in Unearthed Arcana, but the image isn't from that book.Therefore I think it might be from an 80s or early 90s D&D-style computer roleplaying game like Pool of Radiance, the Wizardry series, the Ultima series, or a Rogue-type game like Angband – perhaps a physical chart that came with the game.EDIT: Or a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD" target="_blank">MUD</a>. There seem to have been commercial MUDs as early as the mid-80s.</blockquote>

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