From the earliest mainframe computers, people have been making and playing fantasy games of swords and sorcery. The computer commands to place a cursor anywhere you want on the screen were initially developed in order to create the first graphical fantasy adventure game, Rogue. Consisting entirely of letters and characters found on your keyboard, Rogue was a complex dungeon exploration game. It is even recognized by the creators of Diablo as some of their inspiration for that title. Leap forward 25 years to the present and the concept that started out as a simple, single-player ASCII exploration game has blossomed into an explosion of color, features, and options in todays Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (henceforth termed MMORPGs). Blizzards World of Warcraft is one of the newest entries and could be safely labeled a true 2nd generation MMORPG. The world of WoW is colorful, fun, and very user friendly making it the most accessible MMORPG currently available. If teaming up with real people as a wizard or warrior and fighting monsters for good (or evil) is your cup of tea, you shouldnt overlook this title.