not sure whether i want this to be all 'hack & slash', but there will surely be alot of roleplaying. During the game, you will talk to NPC's just as you do in a chat room. There name will appear all the same. for example....

(Grayze): Welcome, Name, you're new in the realms then?
(Name): yes
(Grayze): Right, lets get you trained up...
(Grayze): blahdeblahdeblah
(Grayze): A good hero always has a friend, or companion, which would you like to help you on your adventures?
(Name): the tiger
(Grayze): Then the Tiger is all yours. What would you like to call it?
(Name): thetigersname
(Grayze): Great!

and basically, it will work like that.

I suppose the first, most hardest thing to do, is to impliment all the systems in, like health, hunger, combat, etc etc. Then to add all the fun visual stuff like monsters, items, NPCs, speech, images etc.

Havent come up with a name yet, but i do have the storyline, and game concept.

i suppose instead of fighting to complete quests and stuff, doing puzzles and solving secrets would be cool just as much