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So I 'm trying the D&D Online 10 day trial.

Redeye

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Looks like WOW.

I'm still at the beginning, so it is still very handholdy.

I hope it changes radically later, but I suspect it will not.

I so far see virtually no opportunity for strategy/tactics.

It looks like this, except not psychedelic and evil.


More info later.
 

kenney bounces

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Enjoy the early levels slowly while you can. It loses the D&D feeling as you get past about level 8+.
It eventually becomes a typical mmorpg grind fest with inflated gear and inflated monster hps and abilities/feats that don't make any d&d sense at all.
 

Redeye

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Yeah, I got a 1-month subscription after the trial. I did not renew.

It got really lame.

If you could make temp-characters of any level to experiment with, that might be fun for a couple of weeks. (Just make any items/etc. dissapear every 3 days and be non-transferrable.)

Of course, trying out stuff like that the time-consuming way might be part of what is keeping people there.

A 6-person team of Monk 9/ Wizard 7 would have been really fun to watch/play.
(Play Yakety-Sax while zooming around at blurring speed with six Dimension Doors open. Too bad they all just lead back to the start of level.)

I'd also like to make the Colonial Marines from Aliens- perhaps as Warforged. All with repeating crossbows. (Rangers with Wizard 1 and Cleric 1.)

Of course you can't make parties.

Since I'm never paying those people another penny, who wants to discuss "theme-teams"/tactics/etc.
 

kenney bounces

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D&d online was one of the bigger disappointments for me. I was genuinely hoping for an accurate portrayal of d&d rules as an online game.

The game kept heading in the direction of inflated stats and abilities. They just kept replacing d&d rules with whatever they felt was better. Sigh... could've been a great game there. =(
 

AzraelCC

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It's set in Eberron, dammit! Along with Dragonshards, the computer game renditions of Eberron are pathetic, which is a shame, since the campaign setting is pretty good.
 

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