Gekkeiju Online

Gekkeiju Online (月桂樹:オンライン) was a 3D MMORPG developed by a Finnish indie software company, Coolhouse in 2003. It incorporates anime style characters into a medieval fantasy world. Gekkeiju Online was a GameOgre. com online game of the week, highlighting the MUD style gameplay which is considered more in depth than regular MMORPGs. A completely redone version of Gekkeiju Online launched to public beta test in January 2010. The project is no longer operational, with its website displaying an error page from May 16, 2020, changing to a simple message stating "Project may be rebooted at later date" from August 13, 2020 onwards.

The game's character options consist of nine playable character races, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. The playable races are: humans, elves, halflings, half giants, dwarves, wild elves, dark elves, goblins and catfolk. It's possible to change the race during playing through reincarnation offered by various NPCs in game. This is also the only way to get access to some of the races.

There are 5 character classes available in Gekkeiju Online warrior, commoner, magic user, divine arts and dark arts. Each of the character classes has its own set of guilds that can be joined to learn skills and spells. The character class also decides the skills and spells character learns automatically during the first 10 levels.

Player versus player (PvP) killing in Gekkeiju Online is nearly free and without other than game enforced limitations. The limitations help those who do not like player killing. The maps in the game are divided into different PvP types: Guarded and PvP. Guarded maps allow players to fight each other but attacking will flag the attacking player as criminal. Guarded areas also always have guard NPCs that hunt down all criminal players. Criminal players will drop their whole inventory on ground and be teleported into jail when killed. The jail time depends on the number of players killed in a guarded map. In PvP maps fighting is allowed but slightly limited. If the attacked player doesn't retaliate before being killed by a player, the attacker will be flagged as murderer. The only way to remove the murderer flag is to gain experience points by killing monsters. Murderers also have a small chance of dropping some of their items when killed.