NPR reviews the online Dungeons & Dragons
Like NPR's reviewer, I spent years of my life sitting around tables with hit dice and graph paper, calculating battle strategies with my friends for hours/days/weeks on end -- though we more often played Call of Cthulhu than Dungeons & Dragons. I haven't tried the online D&D yet, but this review mainly makes me nostalgic for the pencil-and-paper version.
posted by Andy Duncan at 6:50 PM
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I pretty much agree...a lot of what made D&D fun was using you imagination...not computer/video game can really do that as much...it's the difference b/w reading the book or watching the movie...you just don't get to use as many parts of your brain...
There's also a new offline game out that takes place in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. Dragonshard is a new RPG/RTS game that takes place in the Eberron, the same campaign setting as D&D online. So far these are the only two games to be set in Eberron. Most other computer adaptations have used the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, including among them some of the most popular RPG's of recent time like Neverwinter Nights, Baldor's Gate, and Icewind Dale. Icewind Dale II which is supposed to be released in 2006 will also be set in the Forgotten Realms. A notable difference between Dragonshard and D&D Online is the game mechanics. Dragonshard does not use the tradition d20 system whereas DDO presumably will, as Wizards of the Coast has been working closely with the design team.
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