Entertainment,Gaming 29 June 2010

DDO is set on the fictional continent of Xen’drik, in the world of Eberron, a D&D campaign setting. Players can create their characters following the revised edition of D&D 3.5 rule-set fashion, and play them in both indoor and outdoor environments, including dungeons.

Although the game is based in large part on the tabletop D&D 3.5 rule set, it contains changes from the tabletop game, some which were introduced due to differences in the dynamics between the media of computer game combat and tabletop gaming. For example, Turbine wanted DDO to use a real time combat engine, whereas tabletop D&D uses a turn-based system. This brought about considerable changes in the handling of combat, character skills and feats; situations where Turbine felt the turn-based combat system and real time combat did not mesh.

Notable differences are: increased hit possibilities in a round (as much as twelve times more), increased spell casting resources over rest periods, and the use of a spell point system instead of spell slots. Magical items are underpriced (they average 1/8th of the tabletop D&D prices), magical weapons and armors have a maximum of only two abilities, characters have higher stats, and offensive effects created by characters do not harm their allies. A list of other differences between DDO and tabletop D&D is on the DDO Wiki.

 Entertainment,Gaming 29 June 2010

A music video I created for the game Rising Force Online with the theme song “Novus is burning” by Wolfgang.

The video was made 2 years ago when I was still actively playing this game. It was sad that the game crumbles when hacks and cheats was introduced in the game.