dungeons and dragons online

Official Site: Dungeons and Dragons Online
Studio: Standing Stone Games, formerly Turbine/WB Interactive Entertainment; published by Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date: February 28, 2006
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

The end of Dungeons and Dragons Online’s permadeath server approaches

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As the mound of slowly decaying corpses pile up on Dungeons and Dragons Online's permadeath server, players only have a few more weeks to...

The Stream Team: Hanging out and helping hands in Dungeons and Dragons Online’s Harbor

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Although the D&D group is too low level to participate in the Halloween event in Dungeons & Dragons Online, they have left the tutorial...

Dungeons and Dragons Online’s Night Revels Halloween event returns (with a pretty large bug)

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If you feel a chill in the air and hear a slightly unnerving howl in the wind, you probably should close your window. Or...

Lord of the Rings Online puts a cap on embers, motes, and figments

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If you are not acquainted with the Lord of the Rings Online scene these days, chances are that the headline above made about as...

The Stream Team: Completing Korthos Island on Dungeons and Dragons Online

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Massively OP's MJ and her crew of adventurers have just about completed DDO's newbie island, Korthos. Another dungeon, a couple more quests, a defeated...

PSA: Get your free Dungeons and Dragons Online adventure pack

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Hope you didn't forget that Dungeons and Dragons Online is giving away a free adventure pack of quests in honor of the 10th anniversary...

The MOP Up: League of Legends’ future looks bright

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Don't let games like Fortnite and Overwatch make you forget that League of Legends is still a thing. In fact, Riot Games' MOBA saw...

The Game Archaeologist: The day Dungeons and Dragons Online dropped the free-to-play bomb

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By 2009, the MMORPG genre had firmly established a norm for its business model. For over a decade, a monthly subscription -- usually $15...

The Stream Team: Following the Dungeons and Dragons Online newbie campaign trail

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What's life like for a newly minted DDO group? Massively OP's MJ is giving you a front row seat to see! Her group of...

Dungeons & Dragons Online launches a new MacOS client

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If you're playing Dungeons & Dragons Online on an Apple desktop, you're going to need to change clients. The existing MacOS client for the systems...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 238: Ten years of free-to-play

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Justin and Bree discuss DDO, Bless, Book of Travels, Star Trek Online, City of Heroes, WoW Classic & Retail, Guild Wars 2, and LOTRO, with mailbag topics on static endgames and genre labels.

Dungeons and Dragons Online dishes out anniversary gifts

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While we usually convene here at Massively OP to discuss game launch anniversaries, today we have something slightly different: the launch of a business...

Dungeons and Dragon Online pumps out a Sharn-themed adventure pack

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It's Patch Day for Dungeons and Dragons Online. So what does the GM have planned for adventurers in Eberron? Why, it's a new adventure...

The Stream Team: Beginning Dungeons and Dragons Online on Korthos

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As Massively OP's MJ starts regular Dungeons and Dragons nights on OPTV, she felt it was a perfect time to start DDO from the...

The Daily Grind: Which class would you just love to port from one MMO to another?

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Earlier this summer, Standing Stone Game announced a brand-new and unique class for Dungeons and Dragons Online: the Alchemist. No, it's not just another...
Oh, this... keeps my feelings where they were before, really.

Global Chat: MMO roleplaying explained for the rest of us

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Game designer Brian Green has been on a writing streak as of late with a whole series of blog posts about roleplaying in MMORPGs....

Desert Oasis: First impressions of Black Desert on the PlayStation 4 (and the PS Vita too!)

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I needed a break from Black Desert after that disappointing enchant session I recounted in the last edition of the Desert Oasis column. A few...

One Shots: My other car is a ravenous dragon

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Sure, in your normal, mundane life you drive a Prius hatchback, but in your virtual existence, you enjoy a ride that's a bit more...

Massively Overthinking: Problematic faves in MMOs

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A while back, a reader suggested that it was impossible for a fan who loves something to recognize its shortcomings, and I was taken...
This took some work.

Perfect Ten: MMOs that flirted with permadeath

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This month, Dungeons and Dragons Online will be venturing where many MMORPGs have feared to tread: into the realm of officially supported permadeath. The...

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