PCAdvisor- Wizardry Online Review

PCA:Wizardry Online resurrects this concept, attempting to implement a feature considered to be suicide in a mass market produce: permadeath. Under some circumstances, if your Wizardry Online character dies, they are gone for good. To lessen the blow slightly, all of your characters share a "soul," which measures the player's total progress in the game, and the loss of a character doesn't reduce your "soul rank," which is one of the most important factors in determining the ability to equip weapons or access some game features.