Mar 11, 2015

In the beginning One of my biggest mistakes playing DDO as a new player was thinking premium was a great idea. It might work for some people but it was a mistake for me. I originally started out with the plan to only purchase the content needed to level from 1-20 and nothing more. The idea was to save money in the long-run by not paying the monthly fee of...

Jan 26, 2015

Chapter 7: Subverting Expectations Intro: I don’t know much about DDO, but have general D&D knowledge. Despite that, I have never played a caster before. Join me as I explore both DDO and the arcane while telling bad jokes.   Time for me to write again and it has nothing to do with the fact that other stuff I usually write on a different site is going...

Dec 21, 2014

Chapter 6: Mistakes Were Made Intro: I don’t know much about DDO, but have general D&D knowledge. Despite that, I have never played a caster before. Join me as I explore both DDO and the arcane while telling bad jokes.   Wow, it has been some time since Dorfben graced the world with his presence.  Do not fret.  I have not quit or given up my wizardly...

Nov 6, 2014

Chapter 5: The Final Frontier Intro: I don’t know much about DDO, but have general D&D knowledge. Despite that, I have never played a caster before. Join me as I explore both DDO and the arcane while telling bad jokes.   Apparently I took a row boat from Korthos to here.  No wonder the person operating it was tiny.  They needed all the room they...

Oct 24, 2014

Chapter 4: More like Mindfailer, am I right? Intro: I don’t know much about DDO, but have general D&D knowledge. Despite that, I have never played a caster before. Join me as I explore both DDO and the arcane while telling bad jokes.   Dirty old Lars told me to meet his golem man at the base of the mountain.  I of course ignored him and finished...

Oct 15, 2014

Chapter 3: Dorfben’s Island Tours Intro: I don’t know much about DDO, but have general D&D knowledge. Despite that, I have never played a caster before. Join me as I explore both DDO and the arcane while telling bad jokes.   Confession time.  I lapsed in my taking of screenshots during the latter part of Korthos Island, so I recently went...

Oct 4, 2014

Chapter 2: And I shall call him Hypocrisy Intro: I don’t know much about DDO, but have general D&D knowledge. Despite that, I have never played a caster before. Join me as I explore both DDO and the arcane while telling bad jokes.   Last time, this lady asked me to check out strange goings on in a family crypt, so naturally, I obliged.  I found a...

Sep 27, 2014

Chapter 1: Wizard SMASH!   Intro: I don’t know much about DDO, but have general D&D knowledge. Despite that, I have never played a caster before. Join me as I explore both DDO and the arcane while telling bad jokes.   The little icon above my HP bar told me to prepare spells.  I know what this is.  Sorcerers can cast any spells they know at...

Sep 24, 2014

Greetings, everyone.  Since this is the inaugural chapter, I definitely should explain what I’m doing here.  Don’t worry, in the future I’ll just give a tl;dr version that you can skip on by. I know next to nothing about DDO.  I tried it once, briefly, years ago and didn’t make it off the tutorial island town.  Didn’t even hit...