Quote Originally Posted by Kallera View Post
To OP's point, I don't think I've ever played a MMO that quite captured the thrill of taking the sword to the townsfolk the way that Everquest did.(didn't play WOW, btw, so I'm not certain of that one.) Are there other games that try to duplicate this?
UO did it. Kill enough PCs (or NPCs) and you could end up with a permanent red flag. Basically, anyone could kill you any time without any penalty to their character and NPC town guards would teleport to you and start hacking on you the moment you stepped within town boundaries.