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Dungeons & Dragons Online Hands On at TenTonHammer

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by chevalier, Nov 12, 2005.

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    TenTonHammer has published hands on experience of Turbine's upcoming Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, mostly concentrating on combat. Here's an excerpt:

    Perhaps you were thinking you've seen something like DDO; that it's just another variation on the played out EQ-clone fantasy theme. I'm very happy to tell you that this isn't the case. Let's start with what we do know about the game. Turbine is working very closely with Wizards of the Coast (WotC, "governing body" for the official PnP Dungeons and Dragons or DnD- that's the last acronym, promise!- game) to build a Massively Multiplayer game (MMOG - I lied!) based on the DnD version 3.5 ruleset. I'm not really a DnD player, but it's important to grasp the scale of information contained in such a PnP ruleset- between the player's handbook, dungeon master's guide, monster manual, and campaign setting book, it's literally thousands of pages of relevant information. So, garnering those rules into a modern, fast-paced MMOG -at least, enough of the rules to capture the DnD experience and make the branding stick- it's no picnic. And believe me, there's plenty of DnD high-rollers out there that want the game just right; a quick read-through of the official forums will prove folks are putting down their dice and coming out of their basements to announce their opinions on DDO.

    Read the rest at TenTonHammer.
     
    chevalier, Nov 12, 2005
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