General Discussion

Hi All

I really enjoy D&D Online but I use to play the original pen and paper game in the Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk.I have 2 questions

1. Why don't they release an MMO set in either of those worlds ?
2. I play NWN1 and NWN2 and have read people create there own modules using tool builder  for network games ..any recommendations on how and where I could partake in this experience

Thanks

D&D Online is as far away from a true D&D version game than you can get..

Turbine used to be a great company but after AC1 it just went downhill.

1. Stormreach is set in world of Ebberon, that is new setting for pen and paper. How you say, forgotten realms or to be more precise land of Faerun is no longer in development in offices of wizards of the coast so everything is set in Ebberon, books, novels and yes games.

2. You can check official nwn site for info on public games.

D&D Online is as far away from a true D&D version game than you can get..

I dissagree, stormreach is closest pen and paper MMORPG on the market. And if lack of PVP is why all the people do not like it, then they misunderstood core meaning of D&D. If instncing is bothering you, then you misunderstood core meaning of D&D, if must group is bothering you, then you have misunderstood core meaning of D&D.

I'd like to see a real D&D mmo using rolling dice and all.

Originally posted by DaX.9

1. Stormreach is set in world of Ebberon, that is new setting for pen and paper. How you say, forgotten realms or to be more precise land of Faerun is no longer in development in offices of wizards of the coast so everything is set in Ebberon, books, novels and yes games.

2. You can check official nwn site for info on public games.

1. That sounded strange, so I checked the wizards.com site and it seems like they still are doing forgotten realms stuff. As the new edition of D&D arrived this year the Faerun world setting took a leap 100 years into the future and a lot of (strange and stupid?) stuff happened to the world to justify the new rules.

 "D&D Online is as far away from a true D&D version game than you can get.."

I think that D&D online was/is very close to the 3.0 ruleset, not exactly the same,  but close. I've never played Eberron campaigns but when I looked through the book it certainly feels like the same game that turbine made.

Originally posted by DaX.9

1. Stormreach is set in world of Ebberon, that is new setting for pen and paper. How you say, forgotten realms or to be more precise land of Faerun is no longer in development in offices of wizards of the coast so everything is set in Ebberon, books, novels and yes games.

2. You can check official nwn site for info on public games.

Interesting but I'm not sure I completely agree with Point 1

NWN is set in Forgotten Realms ?And they have just released an expansion set ?

Originally posted by TenSpotting

I'd like to see a real D&D mmo using rolling dice and all.

If you think about it though, pretty much all MMOs use an invisible dice roll. Random damage from whatever to whatever with a chance to hit etc etc.

I'd like to see the actual dice rolling =P

It's a wild guess, but I'd say that Wizards of the Coast doesn't want to pay royalties to the creators of the Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk (which are both holdovers from when the company was owned by TSR, if I'm not mistaken- please correct me if I'm wrong).

The reason they may have continued developing FR is that it is so successful and thus, profitable.

Ebberon, if you remember, was created by an individual who won a contest.  I wonder how much of a stake he still has in the profits.

I happen to not care about the reasons, I just wish they would do it.  Imagining a FR MMO is something I do often.  They could get Bob Salvatore to write quests for it!

Here's hoping that someday will come...