

On the world building front you’ll have the beautiful city of Stormreach on the continent of Xen’drik (Eberron campaign) which lies mostly unexplored and thus full of adventure for the keen explorer. With the Dungeons and Dragons namesake Dungeons and Dragons Online thrives in two key areas world building and character creation. To offset this and reward dedicated players a DDO Points system earned through gameplay can be used to unlock content that interests the player. This is further hindered by a maximum level of 20 for free to play players. The most glaring of the restrictions though is limited quest and game challenges with free players having access to around 20% of the total game content which generally features watered down rewards and story. While free to play there are a number of restrictions on free to play players both in terms of races and classes which will eventually push the dedicated the player towards the VIP offerings. Eventually going free to play since 2009 the game has continued to maintain an audience of dedicated players, predominately made up of fans who enjoy the original D&D mechanics. Attempting to capture the D&D 3.5 rule set and import it into the MMO environment Dungeons and Dragons Online (DDO) launched back in 2006 as a paid title.
