{"id":472,"date":"2006-02-27T16:23:02","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T22:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2006\/02\/dd-online\/"},"modified":"2006-02-27T16:23:02","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T22:23:02","slug":"dd-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/02\/dd-online.html","title":{"rendered":"D&D Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nice article in the NY Times on the new online D&D game<\/a>, which we can expect will pull in at least some CoXers.
\nFrom what I read, aside from built-in voice chat (bleah), I expect that D&D Online will fill a similar niche to CoX — roleplaying (to the extent that people choose) plus video game-style smashing and blasting. Folks looking for the former will be able to do so (just as they do on CoX); people looking for imaginative scenarios will little doubt find themselves in the same endless warehouses \/ caves \/ tech labs that CoH players deal with.
\nWhich isn’t a bad thing, but it’s not a real substitute for a F2F game (and, to be sure, in some ways, vice-versa). Expecially if you get beyond the “hard rules” sort of games like D20 into more flexible\/softer systems, what the players and GMs can come up with for the action in an F2F game cannot be matched by a computer system — whereas the visceral bam-smash of a video game (plus the convenience of timing, of quick pick-up action, and of virtual communities) cannot be beat by character sheets and dice.
\nBottom line #1 — It’s not a competition. It’s a complementary set of entertainments.
\nBottom line #2 — I don’t have any particular urge to migrate from CoX to D&D Online (unless, of course, all our friends did, and even then it would be a scosh dicey, so to speak).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nice article in the NY Times on the new online D&D game, which we can expect will pull in at least some CoXers. From what I read, aside from built-in voice chat (bleah), I expect that D&D Online will fill a similar niche to CoX — roleplaying (to the extent that people choose) plus video … Continue reading “D&D Online”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}