Josh Ritter has openned Minions of Mirth to everyone registered on their forums. You can even pre-order the game now for $25 as well. Oh, and there's some new screenshots in the thread about the new alpha open status. Here's the features:

• Windows and OSX support!
• Easy access, only a forum registration is necessary to get in on the fun! REGISTER
• Massively Single Player Gameplay(tm)!!!
• Cooperative and Player vs Player Multiplayer
• No monthly service fees for Multiplayer!
• Autopatcher delivers immediate content and feature upgrades!!!
• Host your own persistent worlds with your own original content!
• Immortal access to your own world where you can control time, weather, spawns, items, etc
• 10 playable races with distinct look, feel, and SIZE!!! Huge Drakken and tiny little Halflings!!!
• Beautiful zones with huge playable area and vistas! Dark dungeons and sprawling wilderness!
• 2 hours of original music!
• Masterfully animated 3d monster models with stunningly realistic textures
• Spine-chilling sound effects!
• Day/Night cycles with gameplay tied to time of day
• Immersive weather effects based on zone climate
• Multiclass your characters all the way to level 100 in up to 3 classes!
• Material based clothing system
• Over 50 3d weapon models
• 100's of in game items with high resolution graphics and magical effects!
• Political Factions
• Quest Journal
• Online Help
• Vendors sell items and restock at regular intervals
• Trade items and currency with other players!
• 3d Automap
• Versatile Spell System (invisibility, wind walking, Teleportation, Healing, Nukes, DoTs, etc)
• Summon pets, equip them, and order them to destroy your foes!
• Powerful Skills (Feign Death, Bloodletting, Rage, Volitation, Archery, Grevious Wound, Precise Shot, etc)
• Form your own party of up to 6 characters
• Form multiplayer alliances with up to 36 characters
• Add, remove, or even create new characters at Inns, without ever leaving the game!
• Powerful modding system including RPG Database (with live recompiles) and Realtime Zone Editing
• Advanced users can SSH into their world and edit the game while it's running from an interactive Python shell.
• Global, World, Zone, Area, Alliance, and Private chat channels
• Global Chat system is hooked up to IRC, so you can chat with people in and out of the game, even spanning worlds!

Feign Death sounds right up my alley.

Thanks, Shagnak!