I'm not into MMOs at all, but I am into D&D. So I'll give it a shot. I'm downloading it now.

Anyone else play? I figure maybe we can get the Steam Group into it.

I'm interested, if it's Free

DLing now

As am I. I decided to try to be hardcore () and get the hires version, so I should be able to start it... tomorrow, ish.

same here, Esser. Only 2 + hours left. :-/

7, here.

working on hires version. 9+ hours atm

heh, my wife and i are downloading it too...

havnt gotten to the actual game yet, im still on the 'dependencies '

Yep, we're THAT geek couple

Crikey! It's an appearance by the extremely rare Black Baroness!

no sudden moves, gents, we don't want to scare it away!

Haha

What if my 'sudden move' is to seal the room?

Free you say?

I'll have free time at work tomorrow, I'll check this out.

I'd suggest taking that up with her husband, but if it's for science . . . . .

Nine hours? Seriously? Get a real Interweb, Essers.

Downloaded, installed, took three hours and a reboot. I'll try the actual game later.

It's actually wildly fluctuating. And I don't exactly have the option of anything better here on campus


(Like, it's five an a half hours now)

bout a half hour left. Man, if they just torrented this damn thing I'd have it by now.

im trying to get this, but it keeps sending me back to the crate your account page. am i doing something wrong? its not saying the name im trying to use is taken or anything...

well, created a character and played through teh tutorial mission.

seems pretty fun. as a weekly D&D player it seems familiar enough.. still working out how the actual game works though. its a bit like WoW..

kind of annoying that the free account gives you enough to play with.. but if you want all the bells and whistles you have to buy ' turbine points' or something to buy races, quests, classes, etc.. from the store.

The site and manual seem to state that you also earn those points in game. For free.

very slowly, im sure..

eh, maybe im cynical.

seems allright for the most part, but at this point I'm still partial to Guild Wars. Perhaps this will win me over, perhaps not.

I love D&D, but Ebboron isn't my favorite realm.

I'm Gardassus on Ghallanda. Add me up!

Well, you would have to have initiative bonus, or I doubt you'd beat her save vs Dex...

Well I have downloaded it but I cannot run the game. When I attempt to run the game the Turbine downloader pops up and give me the option to run LOTRO which I uninstalled months ago. It doesn't provide me with any options to run DnD online.

This doesn't give me any warm fuzzies since one of the main reasons I dumped LOTRO is because Turbine was such a horrendous piece of crap.

I've been trying it out lately too. I've started playing it with my Brother and Sister in law last night and it was okay, but not anything earth shattering. granted, I am only about 3 hours into the game right now, so that might change.

I do like that second weapon you get in the game is a flame weapon that burns. Pretty wicked looking.

I tend to play fast characters, SO.

Made a dwarf fighter named Gnorrie Battleaxe. Currently in Ghallanda. Interesting, but I would have liked to tweak my stats abit more.
would have helped if I'd remembered how jivey two weapon fighting was in 4th ed. :-/

ah well, that's why I made a fighter. Nice, basic class to learn the ropes, eh?

Downloading the hi-res edition now. I'm at work and the downloader is at home, so I have no idea how long is left.

Irony: The banner ad I'm seeing below this topic is for DDO.

man, the level limit for free characters is 4th. Frikken harsh.

Seems kind of lame.

Only in the first village.

Just started DL'ing the HiRes version. Probably be around hour-thirty for the DL. FiOS is shweet...

Im on the cannith server as Grono Greenhill if anyone wants to look me up

completed the quests in and around the starting village. having a pretty good time :}

i really enjoy the announcer/DM voice overs during the quests. makes it feel very D&D ( Which, i assume is the point )

Wait, level limit? I didn't see any mention of that!

im pretty sure the level limit is only until you leave the island, then it opens up...

though, im only lvl 2, and thats just what im told.

Grr. Was about two thirds done overnight, but during said night lost connection and decided to restart with much less down.

still getting sent back to the registration screen after ive already filled everything out. guess i wont be playing it

it sure is, well, interesting, I guess.
Takes a long frikken time to level, that's for sure. I've got like 10 quests under my belt and just now hit level 2.

I'm kind of surprised op doesn't have a link to it.

anyway, I need something to do on WoW downtime, so I'll give this a go. Downloading now.

And it turns out I didn't specify a download location, so it spent the 8 hours I was at work waiting for instruction.

But on the upside, its really friggen moving now, so it should be done in about 2 hours.

Took me just about an hour to DL, actually. It wouldn't launch so I rebooted my PC, which under normal circumstances would be fine. Problem is that I'm at work and was remote-connected to it. And since I dual-boot with Ubuntu as the primary OS, guess I won't be getting to it until much much later...

Beat the big island quest. Interesting, but I don't know how deep I'm going to get into this.

Well. I started. Allegedly playing a TWF fighter. I say allegedly because the damn gnome only gave me one sword.

about the level cap thing:

you have to find an item called a sigil stone to increase your level cap beyond 4. i got one as a random quest reward in the second town, it bumped me up to a possible lvl 8.

so far its a pretty nice game, gets kind of complicated pretty quick though.... like having to carry around wooden weapons for monsters that eat metal, or remembering not to hit ooze monsters with weapons because it will disolve them..

just learned something about dragonmarks, seems interesting.

jive. forgot ebborron had Dragonmarks. those things are a pain in the ass.

okay, im a lvl 3 now and im hitting a point where im gettting a lot of ' you dont have access to this area' or ' you dont have access to this module' always followed by ' buy it at the DDO store! '

... ive managed to amass 75 turbine points by just playing the game, which is cool... but most of the content packs range from 120 p to 400p ...

its a little aggravating.

Just died for the first time. Hint for all, don't take the guard in Stormwarden's quest about hundreds of kobolds. I managed to kill about 100 before their shamans massed and took me out. :-/

Least they don't follow a guy named Tucker!