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Post by the sandman on Sept 29, 2011 16:55:28 GMT -5
How do you figure they've abandoned Eberron? 4th edition came along after DDO did, and there are Eberron 4th edition books. Just as many as Forgotten Realms has, in fact. Heh, I guess I mean that they abandoned their attempt to make it the primary game world for D&D.
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Post by Yaezakura on Sept 29, 2011 17:25:44 GMT -5
I don't really think it was ever meant to be the primary world. It's too far off expectations to ever be the core D&D experience. To be honest, I'm a little surprised DDO is Eberron myself.
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Sept 30, 2011 5:57:46 GMT -5
Sorry that I don't subscribe to stuff. That being said, I posted this topic literally as soon as I got the e-mail. So, quite frankly, if anyone's to blame, it's Blizzard >_> EDIT: Re:Eberron For one thing, it's what Wizards of the Coast told Turbine to make. Turbine didn't really have a choice in the setting. For another, it's not steampunk, it's arcanepunk. Or if you like, a near-modern society if magic was real and capable of being harnessed with technology.
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Post by Vene on Sept 30, 2011 12:29:49 GMT -5
I kind of like DDO's ascetics. And I see no reason why magic users and engineers wouldn't work together to make really awesome shit.
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Post by the sandman on Sept 30, 2011 13:30:05 GMT -5
I kind of like DDO's ascetics. And I see no reason why magic users and engineers wouldn't work together to make really awesome shit. Never said it wasn't an interesting or even a decent idea. The problem is that I've been playing D&D since 1979 when I sat in on a demo game run by Dave Arneson at the Chicago Strategy & Tactics meeting. Been hooked ever since, and DDO/Eberron just doesn't feel like D&D to me. Don't get me wrong; I'm all for innovation. I happen to think that 4.0 is a damn fine game, unlike most of the players in my circle who cling to 3.5 or even 2.0 like Michael Moore holding the last rack of ribs. It's just that DDO and Eberron aren't D&D to me. I guess I'm too old school. I wish they had made what appears (at this point in time, unless you count NWN2, which I adore) to be the only on-line, multiplayer MOG version of D&D classic D&D. I want my St. Cuthbert and my Tiamat, my Purple Worms and Umber Hulks and a million flavors of dragons and all the rest. I want my Llolth, dammit. I want classic Magic Users and constructs that only mean a high level wizard is wondering where his mindless bodyguard wandered off to.
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Post by RavynousHunter on Sept 30, 2011 15:18:22 GMT -5
I would like to see a D&D MMO set in something like Greyhawk. Something with a more...classic feel to it. Course, perhaps they could make some gigantic update that would allow travel to a more classic setting like Greyhawk using planar travel as a nice little handwave, and some reason to go over there and pay em a visit...like Zuggtmoy or Iuz deciding to try and bridge the two worlds together for some giant clusterfuck of evil to take both of em down.
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Post by syaoranvee on Sept 30, 2011 19:00:04 GMT -5
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Post by erictheblue on Sept 30, 2011 21:42:22 GMT -5
This might be of interest. My opinion is still out on the concept (since there are not a lot of details), but at least it is set in FR.
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Sept 30, 2011 23:26:59 GMT -5
This might be of interest. My opinion is still out on the concept (since there are not a lot of details), but at least it is set in FR. As long as Drizzt McSuepants isn't around, it could be good.
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Post by DarkfireTaimatsu on Sept 30, 2011 23:41:31 GMT -5
This might be of interest. My opinion is still out on the concept (since there are not a lot of details), but at least it is set in FR. As long as Drizzt McSuepants isn't around, it could be good. I only bought that Drizzt book because I wanted to read a comic with some lady drow in it. I don't have any plans to buy the other, like, five trades.
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Oct 1, 2011 21:50:30 GMT -5
Eh.
Honestly? I think Drizzt was as bad as Edward Cullen before Edward Cullen was even around. It's just that since he was part of a subculture, you didn't hear about it as much.
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Post by RavynousHunter on Oct 2, 2011 0:57:52 GMT -5
I love how we've gone from WoW to D&D and DDO in like...1 page. Fuck yeah.
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