Answer: Dungeons and Dragons Online

[Renegade]

Question: Where the heck has Renegade been the past year? This is pretty much where I've spent my gaming time.


Just in case anyone was curious.

[Courtnall6]

Question: Where the heck has Renegade been the past year? This is pretty much where I've spent my gaming time.


Just in case anyone was curious.

Pffft! Gaming instead making FF related material! You're starting to act like me!

[Renegade]

Ha! I spent 10 years making games for a living and 6 years making stuff for FF. I think I deserved a break! 


Truthfully, I have an emotional attachment to D&D and really like the free to pay/pay to pay structure DDO started using. I could never commit to a subscription to any MMO, that's just how I roll.


---RENEGADE

[BlueBard]

I play DDO casually... so casually lately that I'm never on

But I do like F2P games.  The only MMO I'm paying for right now is Star Trek Online.  I just signed up for a F2P Silver account in Champions Online.

The only things I don't like about DDO is that leveling the kinds of characters I like to play is too darn slow and the multiclass progression sucks.  I don't have anything over 4th level.  I'm usually a Wizard or some kind of Specialist, which means that soloing on Elite is out of the question and I seem to have a hard time finding people to team with for some reason (probably the hours I keep).

Which server(s) do you play on, Renegade?  When do you play?  What characters do you usually play?

[Renegade]

I just play for the fun of it all, so the speed of level progression is of no real concern to me. I'm in no hurry and I actually like the idea of stretching it out a bit and enjoyng the game for as long as possible. I started out playing a ranger, but I took an online quiz that was called "What D&D Class are you" or something, which had like a 100 different questions. It determined that my real life personality was probably best suited to playing a Rogue, which I had never done in D&D before. I gave it a shot and man, did that quiz nail it! I have more fun playing that class than anything else and pretty much keep playing it.

I have played solo for most of the game and have progressed quite nicely. I always try to run on normal as a solo first and then on hard with a hireling, unless I happen fall in with a party then I just go along with whatever the quest gets set at.

I've have a character on the Khyber sever, but I haven't run him in months as I spend most of my time on the Cannith server where I found the players friendlier and less immature. I primarily run my rogue Earvyn DuCanaan who is up to 10 the level now. He's in a guild I started, but its really just a front to stop people from asking me if I want to join their guild (LOL). The only members are Earvyn and a character my son plays and I don't really pay attention to actually managing it.

I occasionally play in the morning during the week and sometimes in the afternoon on the weekends, but mostly I play at night after the family has turned in. I've started giving all my characters the surname DuCanaan just to make it easier for anyone looking for me to find me. And yeah, I'm geeky  enough to have created a backstory for why so many characters would be running around with that name (you can take the boy out of the game, but not the game out of the boy...)

I may check out Champions at some point though.

---RENEGADE

[JeyNyce]

I used to be a big D&D fan and when this came out I downloaded it with the quickness.  I just never had time to really sit down and play this game.  Maybe I'll take a break from DCUO and try this out.

[BlueBard]

I've got a couple of characters on Cannith, but I don't recall what ones at the moment.

Last few times on I was playing around with a half-elf, but I have to say that my favorite character so far is a Dwarf Ranger/Rogue.  The premise is that he's basically a guardian of the Dwarven underworld, keeping the monsters at bay.  So he's a Ranger with a Dwarven flavor... the Rogue stuff was added to give him some extra abilities underground, the ability to avoid/disarm traps, etc.  I'd like to get him to the point where he can set traps, but haven't figured out how that works yet.

[GhostMachine]

I'd probably go for a Ranger/Rogue myself, if I tried it. My longest existing D&D character is a dual-wielding Ranger/Rogue in the Forgotten Realms who hunts the undead (its a revenge thing; his parents were turned into vampires when he was a child) and is a very low ranking member of the Harpers. I made him during 2nd edition and converted him over to 3rd. Haven't played D&D since third.

I almost signed up for DDO when it first came out, but didn't because I don't like the setting the game is using. And I'm hearing rumors that there may be an actual D&D MMO set in the Forgotten Realms eventually, which has me salivating if true.

[cmdrkoenig67]

I enjoy DDO from time-to-time.  I'm not on a lot, but I got my character to level 10 somehow (in about a year).  You do deserve a break, Ren...Good to see you pop in, though.

Dana

[BlueBard]

I almost signed up for DDO when it first came out, but didn't because I don't like the setting the game is using. And I'm hearing rumors that there may be an actual D&D MMO set in the Forgotten Realms eventually, which has me salivating if true.

I'm not crazy about Eberron as a world environment, truth be told.  The quasi-Oriental high-fantasy architecture and designs don't appeal to me that much.  But you can't claim it's boring.

I know that Cryptic is working on an online multiplayer D&D type game, that might be the one you're thinking of.

[Xenolith]

I also dont like the Eberron setting which has kept me away from DDO.  Neverwinter is the new DnD computer game and it supposedly uses the 4th edition DnD RPG rules.

The new rules have a new, semi-generic setting called the Nentir Vale.  I like it and hope they make a computer game set there.

[Renegade]

The setting is irrelevant to me (as long as it's not Dark Sun). The setting was never important aspect to me when I played PNP D&D,although that may be because we played in out own setting and borrowed whatever aspects of others that we liked.  I'm just there to fight monsters I recognize and steal treasure.

[B A D]

I played this for a bit,  and LOTR online too. As a 1st edition AD&D gamer, I figured I'd like it. Yes and no. As a solo player, its meh. team play rocks, but 9 times out of 10 unless your a cleric, you are not finding a team.

[Kommando]

I played this for a bit,  and LOTR online too. As a 1st edition AD&D gamer, I figured I'd like it. Yes and no. As a solo player, its meh. team play rocks, but 9 times out of 10 unless your a cleric, you are not finding a team.

This. including the 1st ed AD&D part. I was playing a monk for a while and it was just too much like playing a solo game.