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How Dungeons and Dragons Online Brought My Family Together During the Covid-19 Pandemic | MMORPG.com

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edited December 2020 in News & Features Discussion

imageHow Dungeons and Dragons Online Brought My Family Together During the Covid-19 Pandemic | MMORPG.com

I've thought about writing this article for months. Since Thanksgiving and with Christmas just around the corner, I've been putting thought into the things that I've been thankful for.

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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,445
    edited December 2020
    It has been a year both strange and very familiar. We can't do many of the things we normally do but what we are left doing is quite familiar to us. Gaming can replace TV as the activity that brings families together, in an age where TV just does not do that like it used to, though maybe this year watching TV together had something of a revival?

    Following from what you have said, I hope everyone on here is well and gets through to when we can return to some sort of normality.
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  • BruceYeeBruceYee Member EpicPosts: 2,556
    A big heck yes to this article + DDO.

    This game has soooo much replayable content and IMO the perfect speed for people like myself who are getting older. The theorycrafting race/class diversity can have you just sitting there 'thinking' about what you want to do for hours. Add past lives in the mix for those who want to experience harder content and IMO it is one of the best MMO's ever made.
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  • cheyanecheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,405
    Loved this article, thank you for sharing this
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  • xpsyncxpsync Member EpicPosts: 1,854
    Crap i kinda want to check DDO out, i think i played it way back when for like a week lmao. Great article!
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  • xpsyncxpsync Member EpicPosts: 1,854
    BruceYee said:
    A big heck yes to this article + DDO.

    This game has soooo much replayable content and IMO the perfect speed for people like myself who are getting older. The theorycrafting race/class diversity can have you just sitting there 'thinking' about what you want to do for hours. Add past lives in the mix for those who want to experience harder content and IMO it is one of the best MMO's ever made.

    Damn! Well that comment put it on my radar, checking out some gameplay vids.
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  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,501
    It also helps a lot that they kept the game in a playable state so that new players can pick it up today and it actually works. The game has accumulated a lot of content over the years, and you can adjust difficulty to make it challenging or not, as you prefer. A lot of older games leave nearly all of their content in a broken state, or even remove it from the game entirely, so that if you're not already at the endgame, you pretty much can't start now.
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  • JavisoJaviso Member UncommonPosts: 23
    Great article! Thanks for sharing! I wish you much fun in DDO with your family!
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  • AmatheAmathe Member LegendaryPosts: 7,630
    I am happy for you and your family.
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  • SwivvenSwivven Newbie CommonPosts: 1
    Great article. DDO has saved me in 2020. I've been playing on-and-off for 10 years, but I played more in 2020 than any other year. It's still a wonderful game, with a wonderful online community to play with!
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  • CryomatrixCryomatrix Member EpicPosts: 3,223
    This article inspired me to try to get my wife into video games.
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  • TalemireTalemire Member UncommonPosts: 842
    This is a beautiful story.
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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,445
    Cryomatrix said:
    This article inspired me to try to get my wife into video games.
    After the OP's success might I respectfully give a note of caution to that idea. I have only ever tried this with g/f's and soon learnt it was an horrendous idea. ;)
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  • Po_ggPo_gg Member EpicPosts: 5,749
    edited December 2020
    Amazing story!

    This article inspired me to try to get my wife into video games.
    Cryo, it really is a gamble as Scot and rem says above, but imo worth a try.
    Works better if wife is already playing something occasionally, and if not, these older games still can be a good place to start.

    Quizzical said:
    A lot of older games leave nearly all of their content in a broken state, or even remove it from the game entirely, so that if you're not already at the endgame, you pretty much can't start now.
    I digress, but maybe I'm just lucky with my picks... LotRO (and DDO as the example shows), really "new player friendly" games, just as AoC or CO.
    Maybe STO as well, though it really puts new players on the fast track to reach the endgame quicker.

    I find that more of an issue than the broken early content, as a matter of fact.
    While good enough for newcomers, both SWTOR and Neverwinter after the added scaling are prone to this issue, they don't really give time to enjoy the leveling content due to the accelerated advancement.
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  • cheyanecheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,405
    I am trying to get my husband to play  :D
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  • Odi101Odi101 Member UncommonPosts: 54
    Last time I played DDO was 2011. Glad to see it's still going strong. Unfortunately I'm the only one in my immediate family with a PC that can run games.
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  • UngoodUngood Member LegendaryPosts: 7,534
    Cryomatrix said:
    This article inspired me to try to get my wife into video games.
    Go for it.

    My wife plays with me (sometimes), and we play DDO together. 

    This is my advice if you decide to go down that path.. play WITH her, do not play in a way where you are trying to teach her or cultivate her, let her learn the game in her own way, let her make her own mistakes and own victories.. in short,.. let her jump off the cliff to her death if she wants to see what happens.. after all, there is a goods chance you did the same thing once before, which is why you know she will die from it.. LOL.

    I would say going so far as to start a new characters together, talk about what you plan to make and how you plan for them to work together, or in the case of DDO, TRing your main to run with her.

    Worst case is.. you discover she is better at them than you are.. LOL.
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  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,941
    Ungood said:
    Cryomatrix said:
    This article inspired me to try to get my wife into video games.
    Go for it.

    My wife plays with me (sometimes), and we play DDO together. 

    This is my advice if you decide to go down that path.. play WITH her, do not play in a way where you are trying to teach her or cultivate her, let her learn the game in her own way, let her make her own mistakes and own victories.. in short,.. let her jump off the cliff to her death if she wants to see what happens.. after all, there is a goods chance you did the same thing once before, which is why you know she will die from it.. LOL.

    I would say going so far as to start a new characters together, talk about what you plan to make and how you plan for them to work together, or in the case of DDO, TRing your main to run with her.

    Worst case is.. you discover she is better at them than you are.. LOL.

    Absolutely. I've only ever dated one woman who liked video games and I never played to teach or to run off and show what a "veteran" I was, etc.

    I pretty much always followed her lead. If she died a lot, great. If an encounter was repeated multiple times, great!

    It was always about spending time together and letting her just enjoy herself with something novel.
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  • HyperpsycrowHyperpsycrow Member RarePosts: 954
    Isent this game dead or on life support ?
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  • UngoodUngood Member LegendaryPosts: 7,534
    Hyperpsycrow said:
    Isent this game dead or on life support ?
    Nope.. Far from it, in fact it just put out a new expansion 3 months ago.

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  • Po_ggPo_gg Member EpicPosts: 5,749
    Sovrath said:
    I pretty much always followed her lead. If she died a lot, great. If an encounter was repeated multiple times, great!
    Sounds like a good approach. Hopefully did it without Sheldon-like comments :)
    https://youtu.be/fdgdfmJGPVI?t=249
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