you folks like videogames that feature both DUNGEONS and DRAGONS?

PiptheFair

Well, if you don't you're a goddamn sissy, pinko, faggot, commie that hates freedom.

Well what's all this about then?

Why Dungeons and Dragons Online of course! (DDO for short)

As you can see by this handy dandy awful image I posted, this here vidyagame takes place in Stormreach, which is the major city on the continent of Xen'drik. this all takes place in Eberron, which is the best goddamn D&D setting. Also, it's 3.5 edition.

for more info on all of this setting see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Eberron

Well what is this game all about? You might ask, you presumptuous piece of shit
It's about killing nerds! also, dragons and shit I guess

Also kobolds, you are literally Hitler to kobolds in this game btw

Also, many of your favorite classic D&D monsters make appearances in this including: beholders, mindflayers, dragons, and the much maligned mexican jew lizards.

Ok then, what classes we got going on in hizzle?

Fuck you and your questions, I'm getting to it.

(Shamelessly stolen form their website)

Spoiler:

Favored Soul:
Wielding divine magic to both heal and destroy, favored souls have fewer spells than clerics but can cast more often. They also get more spell points than clerics and more bonus spell points from special magic items.

Bard:
Using spells, skills, and powerful magical songs, Bards are the ultimate support characters, simultaneously strengthening friends and weakening foes.

Barbarian:
Barbarians possess incredible strength and offensive power. They are not as well armored as fighters, but they can absorb damage and go into a battle rage to overwhelm their enemies.

Cleric:
Divine spell casters and healers, Clerics excel at curing ailments and healing allies but also have the ability to blast enemies with their divine power.

Fighter:
Fighters are also able to use more weapons, armor, and shields than any other class. They often focus their training on a specific set of gear and become masters of their own custom fighting styles. A fighter can succeed in battle in many different ways.

Monk:
Monks use an energy called ki to perform amazing techniques in battle. They use this vital energy to launch powerful combination attacks and project amazing beneficial effects. Usually fighting without weapons and armor, they can assist allies or destroy enemies, but take longer to master than the other melee classes.

Paladin:
Paladins are supremely resilient and have a good balance of offensive and defensive skills at their disposal. Through their devotion and purity, paladins gain many special abilities.

Ranger:
Rangers are extremely versatile combatants that can act as scouts, wield two weapons at once, and be lethal with a bow.

Rogue:
Rogues use stealth and a variety of masterful techniques to disarm traps and unlock doors. Stealthy and sly, rogues pride themselves on their skill.

Sorcerer:
Sorcerers are born with the ability to use powerful magic. Sorcerers get more spell points than any other class, and can gain bonus spell points from special magic items.

Wizard:
Wizards can learn a huge variety of spells and can fine tune this arsenal to suit the task at hand. They can assist the party, summon allies, or destroy opponents with the power of the elements.

AND THE RACES

I MUST KNOW IF I CAN BE A GNOME!

you can't, and shut up I was gonna tell you what you can be

Spoiler:

PLACEHOLDER RACES THING

Drow
Dwarf
Elves
Half-elv
Half-orc
Halflings
Human
Warforged

So how much does this cost you might ask?

Well, get ready for this Delilah, cause it's goddamn free, kinda.
You could theoretically download and play this game indefinitely, without ever actually having to pay anything. You will probably not hit 20(which is the level cap), but who fucking cares it's free.

Here's a list of free quests: http://ddowiki.com/page/Free_to_Play_quests

And here's a list of stuff you gotta pay for or maybe earn via favor: http://ddowiki.com/page/DDO_Store

So how do you download this game?

Why just click this here link and follow the steps!

PiptheFair

The Se++ guild is on the Cannith server

We are named "Cant ever stop pooping"

Here is a really good thread for new players that features pretty good starting builds. http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=232660

Also, if you have a question, check the wiki before you ask anywhere else: http://ddowiki.com/

Sir Red of the Manti

I thought this was a game of the imagination?

MNice

In many media it is.

In this case, it is an MMO which I feel is an incredibly refreshing change of pace from, for lack of a better term (cause I haven't exercised my imagination loool), the WoW standard.

Instead of the ol' farm and grind, it's more do this dungeon and then this dungeon and oh here is another dungeon you should do!

The tutorial island is a great experience. After that it is koboldfest for a while, which may be hard to get through if you're not already enjoying the game. And then it gets fun again with lots of unique adventures!

Help pirates.
Kill pirates.
Kill ghost pirates!
Loot loot loot.
Kill trolls.
Defend the city of Stormreach from an invasion of a demon leading beholders leading lesser demons!
Kill all sortsa giants.
Kill the dragons that those giants hatched from stolen eggs and raised to become magnificent tools of destruction!
Loot loot loot loot loot loot loot loot.
Be a walking death robot.

OK, every solution to every problem is predictably violent, but at least it's not that same scenario with song & dance replacing violence.

Anywho, if you're looking for a good waste of time, this has my hearty approval. Me! This cool cat!

Tommy2Hands

literally the worst op

PiptheFair

Tommy2Hands wrote: »

literally the worst op

nope.avi


also, not everything has to be violent

sometimes diplomacy/bluff/intimidate actually get you out of fights!


making things explode is way cooler though

PiptheFair

also, this is probably the best conception of what d&d is meant to feel like I have ever played

I Win Swordfights

Sometimes I want to play this again just because it was so damn cool

But I'm so rich in WoW

Fandyien

I've been meaning to try this, and I'm not playing any MMO right now. I reckon I'll download this instead of Project 1999 later.

PiptheFair

I Win Swordfights wrote: »

Sometimes I want to play this again just because it was so damn cool

But I'm so rich in WoW

raids in ddo take less than an hour

think on that

I Win Swordfights

If I get a better laptop, I'm absolutely playing this again. It looks like hot garbage on my current rig, and it can look so much better than WoW it pains me to see it in such awful form.

Abracadaniel

PiptheFair wrote: »

also, this is probably the best conception of what d&d is meant to feel like I have ever played

except with real dnd you and your bros level together and nobody outpaces the other

:[

Fandyien

Can I make a gnome bard in this

Z0re

Spoiler:

I love me some 3.5 edition, but this game means I have to shell out monies to play the only one of my favorite races that actually made it into the game as playable. And I don't think any of my favorite classes made it in, they even took out DRUIDs and those are part of the core 11.

Basically I cannot be a Kobold Swordsage or a Warforged Totemist or a Changeling Druid and thats not cool at all.

Are Wizards as hilariously overpowered as they are in pen and paper or did they get rid of fly and such like in the Neverwinter games?

PiptheFair

Fandyien wrote: »

Can I make a gnome bard in this

no gnomes sadly

but there are halflings

and bard is a class that is highly desired

also t dan: you know, this game is actually really hard to solo in barring certain builds, so, you realistically can level completely to 20 with a group

PiptheFair

Z0re wrote: »

Spoiler:

I love me some 3.5 edition, but this game means I have to shell out monies to play the only one of my favorite races that actually made it into the game as playable. And I don't think any of my favorite classes made it in, they even took out DRUIDs and those are part of the core 11.

Basically I cannot be a Kobold Swordsage or a Warforged Totemist or a Changeling Druid and thats not cool at all.

Are Wizards as hilariously overpowered as they are in pen and paper or did they get rid of fly and such like in the Neverwinter games?

utility spells like fly that would break the game are gone, but warforged sorcs are pretty much ridiculous though

Shrieve

PiptheFair wrote: »

AND THE RACES

I MUST KNOW IF I CAN BE A GNOME!

you can't, and shut up I was gonna tell you what you can be

Spoiler:

races coming soon

I'm on the edge of my seat! Can we be any of those bizarro crazy races that D&D has collected over the years? Don't disappoint your readers and keep us hanging!

Although I guess I can settle for Drow...

Abracadaniel

PiptheFair wrote: »

Fandyien wrote: »

Can I make a gnome bard in this

no gnomes sadly

but there are halflings

and bard is a class that is highly desired

also t dan: you know, this game is actually really hard to solo in barring certain builds, so, you realistically can level completely to 20 with a group

but i want to play with people i know and like

PiptheFair

Shrieve wrote: »

PiptheFair wrote: »

AND THE RACES

I MUST KNOW IF I CAN BE A GNOME!

you can't, and shut up I was gonna tell you what you can be

Spoiler:

races coming soon

I'm on the edge of my seat! Can we be any of those bizarro crazy races that D&D has collected over the years? Don't disappoint your readers and keep us hanging!

Although I guess I can settle for Drow...

slightly updated until I get less lazy

PiptheFair

Smart Hero wrote: »

PiptheFair wrote: »

Fandyien wrote: »

Can I make a gnome bard in this

no gnomes sadly

but there are halflings

and bard is a class that is highly desired

also t dan: you know, this game is actually really hard to solo in barring certain builds, so, you realistically can level completely to 20 with a group

but i want to play with people i know and like

ouch

Abracadaniel

PiptheFair wrote: »

Smart Hero wrote: »

PiptheFair wrote: »

Fandyien wrote: »

Can I make a gnome bard in this

no gnomes sadly

but there are halflings

and bard is a class that is highly desired

also t dan: you know, this game is actually really hard to solo in barring certain builds, so, you realistically can level completely to 20 with a group

but i want to play with people i know and like

ouch

i am saying that I can't participate it just 'hey let's all get on at the drop of a hat' type adventuring

but like

"Hey, Sunday afternoon we're all gonna play for like three hours let's do some adventuring"

i am down for

PiptheFair

Smart Hero wrote: »

PiptheFair wrote: »

Smart Hero wrote: »

PiptheFair wrote: »

Fandyien wrote: »

Can I make a gnome bard in this

no gnomes sadly

but there are halflings

and bard is a class that is highly desired

also t dan: you know, this game is actually really hard to solo in barring certain builds, so, you realistically can level completely to 20 with a group

but i want to play with people i know and like

ouch

i am saying that I can't participate it just 'hey let's all get on at the drop of a hat' type adventuring

but like

"Hey, Sunday afternoon we're all gonna play for like three hours let's do some adventuring"

i am down for

this

can be done

Abracadaniel

okay

PiptheFair

just killed an ancient lich who commanded the undead throughout all of xen'drik

he did not give me any loot

Tommy2Hands

lich bitch

MNice

PiptheFair wrote: »

also t dan: you know, this game is actually really hard to solo in barring certain builds, so, you realistically can level completely to 20 with a group

mmhm me and pip and mr. defecation and a couple other dudes leveled to 20 together. Basically from level 5 onward. another set of like 5 dudes have leveled to around 15 together so far.

And pip needs an excuse to make an alt so he can stop being a rogue and consequently stop being so wrong all the time about everything forever.

Bucketman

I have three characters sitting the Kobold zone and it sucks.

MNice

I imagine it'd be incredibly difficult to muster up the desire to start back up, but if you can persist through that shit it gets infinitely better from thar. just need some buds with whom to get through it

Melding

i had to start school again and move my sister and when i came back everyone was five levels higher then me sio i was like "eh, i''lll come back later" and then i came back and no one was on everything i checked.

If we made an agreed upon day/time i would be down for that. not saturday though cause normally am playing real dnd, maybe, my group falls apart and regroups a lot.

PiptheFair

jamjam you fart, where have you been

also meld, you a butt

Melding

No PipTheFair, you are the Butt.

PiptheFair

tis thee

Niceguy Myeye

MNice wrote: »

PiptheFair wrote: »

also t dan: you know, this game is actually really hard to solo in barring certain builds, so, you realistically can level completely to 20 with a group

mmhm me and pip and mr. defecation and a couple other dudes leveled to 20 together. Basically from level 5 onward. another set of like 5 dudes have leveled to around 15 together so far.

And pip needs an excuse to make an alt so he can stop being a rogue and consequently stop being so wrong all the time about everything forever.

Pip has an alt now! I think we're on level 7 ish characters.

I love alts, so if you want to play don't be shy and tell us you want some company. I know there have been many a time before Pip had an alt when he would want people to group with his 20 and we'd be all, 'nope leveling up our alts with this lower level guy.'

Some people say he cries himself to sleep on those nights.

PiptheFair

I..

who told you

also I just put a bunch of +1 shrines in the airship

now all we are missing is str and con


p.p.s. MANNY WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU

Abracadaniel

You guys have an airship? :o

And name a date and time and I'll be down

PiptheFair

Smart Hero wrote: »

You guys have an airship? :o

And name a date and time and I'll be down

yup

with some decent buff on it finally

PiptheFair

get on you butts

PiptheFair

come back to us jamjam

MNice

I'll probably be on tomorrow noight

PiptheFair

you and your not being on

PiptheFair

logging on when everybody else is off does not count!