There's a free online RPG no one has mentioned and I'm really surprised. I was addicted to this game for literally 6 months. Its called Tibia. Its highly popular, and its really fun to play.

Basics: After downloading the program and creating a character on the tibia website (www.tibia.com) you start of as a level 1 generic person on an island called Rookgaard. here you learn the basics of the game and get taught how to talk with the NPCs as well as other people actually playing the game. when you reach Level 8 (it took me like a day, and getting 8 levels in one day is crazy fast) you can get teleported to the mainland as wel as choose your permanant vocation. You can be a Knight (High physical attack poor magic, high carrying capacity also), Paladin (High physical ranged attack, some magic, medium carry capacity) Druid and Sorceror (Druids are more heal based magic and Sorcs are more attack magic based. both physically weak and low carry capacity)

When you kill an enemy exp is automatically given to you and then you check the dead enemy for gold and other loot. Some of tibias servers allow PvP, some do not. there are a few where PvP has absoluetly no consequence as well. Those are fun but hard to get high leveled characters there.

If you are interested in getting started in the land of Tibia, I'll be more than happy to help you out. Just make sure your character is in the World of Pacera (its the server, each server has its own world, no crossing between)

The graphics arent spectacular, but they are good enough, the game is great fun, and this game is proof that graphics aren't better than gameplay.

My character there is called Shining Bleu, hes a level 37 Knight, it could be higher, i just like to socialize a lot.

E-mail me or PM me here or on AIM for help.