I played
Urban Dead for a while but its annoying because when you get turned into a zombie its hard to get people to revive you, so you gotta spend all your turns getting shot by someone even though you don't attack them first because you hope they'll help you...its just annoying. The updates and new skills further unbalance the game and make it very difficult for new players to just pick up, so unless you're a hardcore web based RPG fanatic, I'd give this one a miss.
Then there's
Londinium which is full of skills, quests, and items as well as PvP duels to see how you rank among other players. Even though it is somewhat interesting it is ultimately shallow gameplay and relatively boring...oddly I still play regularly though.
Of course who hasn't heard of
Runescape, the free 3D RPG that runs on Java and has no downloads. I personally love this game, it looks much better than it used to since the plethora of graphic updates it has been through and there are plenty of things to do even in the free version of the game. You can fight, cook, mine ores, forge weapons/armor, and many other things as well so if you like mmorpgs and don't have much time, cash, or you're at school messing around on the computer when you're supposed to be working (you know who you are.) you might find this game interesting.
And finally there's my personal favorite,
Cybernations. Really all there is to it is creating and managing a nation, yet somehow it pulled me in. Its not entirely interesting unless you join an alliance, a forum, and build some good trade relations between your neighbors. Joining and alliance gives you the advantage of protection from other nations that might be looking at you like a cash cow if you're a rogue nation and also the fact that many alliances have programs designed to help smaller nations get off to a good start by giving them money or resources as well as tips on how to play.
There were several other games I used to play, one was a game where you built and army, joined a battalion and fought all over the world, I can't remember the name of it though. I was introduced to it by Channler, Soulseeker, Megil, and Shogunsniper...man its been a while.
Anyways thats my list of games I'm currently playing, what I'm wondering is are there any other browser based RPG fans around the forums? If so, what games do you play?
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. - Friedrich Nietzsche