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Message: <blockquote data-quote="abeattie" data-source="post: 4148048" data-attributes="member: 61684">There are windmills here!!! Where? /tilt/ <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Seriously though, the question that equates the two in spirit really misses the point. They're both games so, yes, they may appeal to a similar niche market. But World of Warcraft is the kind of game that draws people in. It's easy to pick up -- there are no rules to learn because the game simply will not allow you to break the rules, so you use the very limited number of powers and abilities you have and nothing else.DnD has a very high learning curve. You need to learn AC, HPs, levels, classes, movement, to hit rolls, damage rolls, you need to learn the difference between your attacks (all the more so now with all the classes using powers more often than a straight swing) none of which is true in WoW. If I don't know how a power works, I click on it and it either works or it dosen't. At a DnD table, I try to do something wrong and one or many people tell me I can't. Which of those feels more restrictive at the first play?Sure -- once you figure out what DnD is about you have endless options. But I think WoW provides an invaluable gateway purpose. Making the DnD mechanic similar in any way -- even if it's just by giving similar names to powers that fill similar roles in both games (cleave comes to mind - WoW cleave is almost exactly identical). I have very actively promoted the game since the first time I played it. I tried sitting my folks down to a game table to see if they could pick it up -- but the rules were too much to absorb. When I sat them down in front of wow and said "you play, I'll be over there" they picked it up intuitively and then were able to make connections to the dnd mechanics. (that's 3.5 ed). The meat of the game, the thing WoW cannot capture is the dynamism of DnD. I don't want to think about how many times I've beaten Whitemane down and rolled her corpse for loot -- but then we reset the dungeon, run back through, and there she is! I feel so fullfilled. :/</blockquote>

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