Tibia

The World of Tibia is a vast Online RPG where thousands of players log in on a daily basis. The graphics of the game are WAY below the level of todays computer games, but the players seem not to mind. The main reason the game has become so popular, is that you can download and play it free of charge. However, there is the option of buying a premium account, which gives the player great ingame advantages and priority when logging on to crowded servers. To free account players, the message "Server Full, Only premium players are allowed to log in" is not uncommon.

Mostly, the players of the game will spend their online time training their skills, killing entire populations of monsters and scouring the continent for treasures and fortune. Also, they interact with other players to trade their loot or convice them to join forces to kill even stronger foes. The game depends on the community for the game balance, for all players are allowed to attack and kill eachother whenever they please. The main reason for NOT killing all players you can take, is that some players have friends and that those friends might be 10 times as strong as you are. Although the penalty for dying is great, you can obtain items or blessings to decrease the loss of your deaths. Amulets of loss will keep your items but not your skills when you die. Blessings decrease the amount of experience lost. Of course, these items are only available to premium accounts. All the items you carry in your pack are dropped on the ground and there is a chance of losing parts of your equipment as well. Therefore, players think twice before killing someone that might have friends.

In the recent years, the game was updated to contain a system that makes sure players don't kill too much. Players who kill or attack a person who is not in your party automatically get a white skull. This allows any player to kill them without obtaining a skull. If you kill more people than alloted, you get a red skull, which means anyone can kill you and you'll drop all of your items on your character. If you persist to kill after that, you'll get an automatic banishment.

Currently, there are servers in America, Germany, and newly added Brazil. The population of Brazillians in Tibia has increased dramatically within the past 2 years. There are several different server types, including Normal, where the skull system is located, Non-PvP, where you cannot attack any other player, and recently added PvP-Enforced, where there is no skull system and no blessings or amulet of life.

In Tibia, there are monsters ranging from easy to kill rats, innocent dogs, and even deer, to fierceful Orc Warlords, Dragon Lords, and even Demons. There are 4 vocations you can be in tibia, Knight, who advances faster in melee but less in magic, and has more HP and less mana than others, Paladin, who advances faster in magic level and distance than knight, and has about average HP/mana, Druid, who advances faster in magic level than knight or paladin, and does poorly in melee skills. They have low HP and high mana and are available of creating healing spells. Sorcerers are the last vocation, who are the same as druids in magic level, and have the same effects on melee and mana/health. They know some of the best spells in the game, from the ever fearful Sudden Death rune spell, to Ultimate Explosion.

Websites

 * Tibia.com - Official Tibia Website
 * Tibia News - Unofficial Website
 * Tibia.de - Unofficial Website