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The MMORPG that helped push the genre to the public.

Summary

EverQuest is a famous massively multiplayer online roleplaying game that essentially is one of the bases for current games of that genre. Its concept has been the groundwork for more recently MMORPGs, such as World of Warcraft.

Races and classes

Since it is based on Dungeons & Dragons, EverQuest's races are similar to D&D's characters. There are humans (of course,) barbarians, dwarves, halflings, erudites, iksar, drakkin, high elves, wood elves, dark elves...

The classes are based off of D&D as well.

Phenomena

Two players who met in-game named their baby "Firiona Vie" after the blonde elf chick that is usually featured in the game box art.

Fansy the Famous Bard is probably the original MMORPG troll, who kept getting sand giants all over the place and ruining the gameplay for others.

Shawn Woolley was a player who committed suicide, with many guessing it was from something that happened in-game.

Origins

A lot of EverQuest's lore is based on Tony "Vhalen" Garcia's old Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. His D&D character was Lucan D'Lere, who is a fallen paladin in the EQ series. Brad McQuaid, a game designer, began development of the EQ game when it was noticed by John Smedley. Smedley is currently the CEO of Sony Online Entertainment. From there, EQ was promoted by him, and the game became the most successful MMORPG of its time.

Current status

The game is over twelve years old, and still has a dedicated fanbase with its niche-type gameplay. It's doing better, than say, Final Fantasy XIV...

Facts

Images

EFG as a halfling.	A cosplayer, probably a booth babe.	Post Secret.	Skeletons.
Ten year anniversary promo picture.	Some sort of weird horse.	A goblin with a ship	A froglok.
Action figure of Grenix Mucktail.	Mayong Mistmoore, a vampire boss.	EQ deities playing poker.	Woll Smoth version.
A box full of EQ game time cards.	John Smedley, CEO of Sony Online Entertainment.	A sand giant.	One of the comics that was based off the series.
A NPC.	Some people like EQ a bit too much.	One of the goddesses in the series.	Barack Obama parties in EQ.
A baby named after the blond elf chick, Firiona Vie.	A library in the city of Erudin.	This is considered the best video game expansion ever.	A dark elf comic.

Videos

Related Pages

Braid McQuaid

EverQuest II

Fansy

MMORPG

Shawn Woolley

Sony Online Entertainment

World of Warcraft

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