Massively multiplayer online games let you create a character and go off on adventures in a persistent online world with other players, fighting monsters, recovering treasures, and chatting with your comrades. One of the most consistently popular massively multiplayer games, at least on US shores, has been Sony Online's EverQuest, which launched in 1999 and has, since then, continued to captivate thousands of players with its promises of bringing down dragons, giants, and even otherworldly deities with war parties of bards, necromancers, and paladins. The next expansion pack for EverQuest will add an entirely new realm to explore to the game's already-huge world, along with the ability to make an already-powerful character even more so.