Geek alert!

Phew, been busy lately. Want to hear something crazy? its 12 days till I move up to Uni! So I'm kinda getting things ready, all the dullness of washing all those new kitchen utensils ready for their first use in my new home.

I've also been playing DDO a fair bit, I have to say there's something that sparks the inner geek in me I can't quite place what it... Oh wait its because its Dungeons and dragons... Yeah that'd do it. There is something magical about the D&D system (at least the 3.5 edition that's the only one I've ever known) and I think I know what it is.

Customisation.

You see In WoW when you look at a character of a certain class they will be one of 3 groups: BM, SV or MM for hunters, occasionally you see someone who's somewhere int he middle, but mostly people go really deep in one talent tree and most people are drawn to the same talents within that tree.

In D&D however things are a lot more loose, Sure there's a set class with set abilities, but it doesn't end with the class, and even if it did you can take levels in other classes. If you want a Wizard to use a Bastard sword then you just choose the right feat and voila you have a Wizard with a bastard sword. Sure it might not be a good idea, but its *your* idea so run with it!

Today I was in a group with a Wizard/Rogue, he used the spells his wizard levels gave him to buff himself (and the rest of the party) and then he snuck around and stabbed things in the back with 2 daggers!

Personally I'm playing a dwarf rogue, but I wanted her to be... well... suitably dwarvish, that meant she needed an axe, preferably a big one. So I got her a Greataxe, it as big as she is so that's probably just about big enough and to really get the best use of it I gave her a high strength, rogues might be known for their agility, but personally I consider hacking down a door a successful pick lock attempt. Of course rogues don't normally train with huge axes, so I gave her a level of fighter, this gave her training with greataxes (and a myriad of other larger weapons, armours and Shields) and also chose power attack for her fighter feat, this means she can trade accuracy for damage on a 1:2 basis. (she's also about as pleasant to talk to as your garden variety politician, charisma was a dump stat)

She's still sneaky, she's good at disarming traps, she's pretty agile even if low by rogue standards, but she's also going to sneak attack you with a greataxe, and that is how a rogue should act!


Oh also another good point, the traps in this game are real traps, jets of fire coming out from the walls, spikes coming form the ground, blades swinging round pillars, Indiana Jones would be proud!