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| D&D Online tryout: pt1 Well, trying it out for seven days free is better than a Beta Test, in that you get to actually say what you think. I have my first Fighter created on the Khyber server and have him still at level 1. And thus comes up my first beef; if you are claiming the game is going to adhere to the true rules of D&D, as best as they can within the MMO environment, then the first thing you should do is not toss out the obvious rules, such as level XP Points. In the online game it takes 10,000 XP to reach level 2. They balance that by adding in Enhancements but, really, I don't like the fact they are tinkering. D20 ver 3.5 is already a mass amount of tinkering, no need to expand on it. The only other beef I have is the movement & combat interface. Moving involves the usual 3rd Person gaming method of W-S-A-D with strafe on the Q and E, a little clumsy for my purposes. I would much prefer to have the character direction chosen by the Mouse and strafe on the A and D. You can usually combine Mouse Look within that schema. So far it's not a bad experience but I haven't tried the Party aspect nor have I fought much more than Kobolds and metal puppies. Oh yeah, that's also my one old-time D&D player beef -- don't introduce to me a new, maybe campaign specfic, monster in the first few quests ! D&D has more than enough tried and true low level monsters for first level noobs to hack on. May 14 06 |
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