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Hey DDO & DDOcast fans!

I failed my Strength Check this week and took 1d10 damage from an evil moving box this week. My cleric told me to rest as much as I can while my back heals. This means no pushing, pulling, lifting, driving, typing nor mousing (too much) until the swelling goes down.  Sadly this means no DDO nor DDOcast for me this week.  We have a lot of things lined up, but we’ll just have to save them for the following week, and present them to you live on Sat, Feb 11th.

Thanks to everyone who’ve already wished me well! And thanks to everyone for understanding, we’ll be back soon enough with your favorite DDO news! How could we not with U13 just around the corner this Feb 22nd!

In the mean time, enjoy this little cartoon by our friend Stan! over at http://www.10x10toon.com

Sincerely,

Anne

UPDATE 8:05 AM PST (GMT -8): DDOcast Podcast Feed is back up!! HOORAY!

7:40 AM PST: Hi everyone! we’re sorry to report that our podcast feed is currently down. We’re working hard to fix it! Please stay tuned in for more info! I’ll be updating our social networks with more up to date news!

Thanks,
Anne

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DDOcast is a weekly DDO podcast created by fans for fans! We discuss nearly everything related to Dungeons and Dragons Online – Eberron Unlimited.

Episode 245 is ready! Here’s a LINK to the episode – just left-click to play, right-click and ‘save as’ to download as an mp3. You can find DDOcast on iTunes, the Zune Marketplace and Cyberears.com.

What a news week! Druids, Pets, Underdark, Forgotten Realms! Join us for some talk on the latest DDO news! We also have a quick Year in Review of DDO in 2011. Ecgric’s also got a new Premium Perspective. And an all new Crunchy Bits, this time on the Basics of Base Attack Bonuses.

This episode’s music is CITY OF PHLAN composed by Seiji Toda for the 1988 Commodore64 8-bit video game, AD&D: POOL OF RADIANCE (developed by Strategic Simulations, Inc. — who was eaten by Ubisoft!) You may be able to find a copy of the game on an NES ROM or download a C64 simulator…somewhere.

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DDOcast Episode 245 (01-21-12)

0:00:41 Intro
0:01:58 DDO News
0:43:05 DDO 2011 Review
0:52:29 Sponsor Break
0:54:55 Premium Perpsective with Ecgric
1:04:45 More Expantion Talk
1:10:38 Whatcha been doing in DDO?
1:14:53 DDO Community News
1:21:37 Lighting Post
1:28:23 Crunchy Bits Live: Basics of BAB
1:44:34 Closing

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TOTAL TIME: 1:47:10

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LINK for Dungeons & Dragons Online: Menace Of the Underdark

LINK for DDO:MotU Epic Levels Talk

LINK for Sign up for Mornlands (maybe for DDO:MOTU?!)

LINK for Update 13

LINK for Thelanis, Sarlona and Wayfinder Outage Last Thursday, Jan 19th

LINK for Enhancements Talk Thread

LINK for Madfloyd also has a new Lets Talk thread for Challenges

LINK for Also – Lets Talk Minimum Resolution

LINK for DDO Store Sales

LINK for More Info on Update 13 & DDO Expantion

LINK for Yskuma’s DDO Sage

LINK for Theris has put together a Windows 7 Theme Pack featuring DDO screenshots!

LINK for Tobril is organizing his latest in a series of new player raid training sessions for folks on Sarlona!

LINK for Feb 14: 6th Annual St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and Sweetheart Dance on Thelanis

LINK for The Eberron Chronicle!

LINK for Korthos Cast Episode 5

LINK for Fropo Rant

LINK for Also – Lets Talk Minimum Resolution

LINK for Madfloyd also has a new Lets Talk thread for Challenges

LINK for DDO Official G+ Page

We <3 Minsc & Boo!

Wow! What a news week! Update 13, Forgotten Realms, Durids, Pets, Underdark! Ohhh my! Join us this Saturday as we give you the latest news on Dungeons and Dragons Online.

• Date:  Saturday, January 21, 2012
• Time:  3:00 PM EST (Noon PST / GMT -5)
• URL 1: http://www.ddocast.com/listen-to-ddocast-live/
• URL 2: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ddocast

Breaking news today for DDO! We’ve got Update 13 and a new DDO Expansion featuring the Forgotten Realms Setting and the Underdark! Looks like our www.ddo-motu.com speculation in episode 244 wasn’t too far off the mark!

Summary of New Features for DDO Sixth Birthday Update #13:

• Release date is February 22nd!
• New cosmetic pets!  - Like last year’s crafting system introduction, the cosmetic pet system will be rolled out over time.  Gotta collect them all!
• A new  adventure pack that opens the door to the new storyline, Menace of the Underdark. This will serve as the beginning  of how Eberron and Forgotten Realms (Faerun) are connected.

DDO: Menace of the Underdark (DDO:MotU) Features:

• DDO in a new campaign setting, Forgotten Realms! – You start in the village of Eveningstar and adventure through the surrounding King’s Forest wilderness in the nation of Cormyr
• New Encounters with Drow and Lolth – But do they have Umber Hulks?
• Finally, The Druid Class – you’ve been wanting it, now you get it! DRUIDS are HERE!
• Level Cap Increased to 25 - True Epic Levels with character customization options to match your EpicWin-ness!
• MotD is a premium expansion – The first actual paid for expansion for DDO. No word on cost yet.
• Release date is This Summer – no exact day just yet!

Exciting news for DDO, especially in light of Wizards of the Coast’s D&D Next announcements!  Of course we’ll be talking about this on DDOcast 245!  Call us at 1-650-DDO-LICH or a message if you got questions or comments you’d like to share!

Also, starting today through Jan 22nd everyone gets 20% XP Bonus and 20% off on all XP Bonus Pots in game!

If you’d like more details here are some links:

• Official DDO: Menace of the Underdark site
• Official announcement from Fernando on the DDO Forums
• Massively.com: Turbine makes ‘biggest announcement since free-to-play’ for Dungeons and Dragons Online 
• MMORPG.com: Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited Interviews: Entering the Forgotten Realms
• TenTonHammer.com: DDO in 2012: Druids, the Underdark, and Forgotten Realms. Oh My!
• ZAM.com: Looking Ahead: Dungeons & Dragons Online in 2012

And oh, here are those URL’s we found from last Podcast:

• ddounderdark.com
• ddoforgottenrealms.com
• ddo-motu.com

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DDOcast is a weekly DDO podcast created by fans for fans! We discuss nearly everything related to Dungeons and Dragons Online – Eberron Unlimited.

Episode 244 is ready! Here’s a LINK to the episode – just left-click to play, right-click and ‘save as’ to download as an mp3. You can find DDOcast on iTunes, the Zune Marketplace and Cyberears.com.

This week Sig and Anne are back from their holiday vacation! This episode we have loads of DDO news, mail and messages from listeners, and even a bit of speculation on what’s to come in DDO for 2011. New segments from Rhreebus Top 10 and Shamgar’s Epic Education. And a Crunchy Bits on Spell Resistance and Spell Penitration. We also couldn’t help our selves and talk about our Orginal D&D (B/X) and AD&D games we’ve played, and the latest info on D&D 5th edition!

This episode’s music is KOBOLDS ATE MY BABY by MIKE MASON from his 2011 album IMPOTENT NERD RAGE. MIKE MASON is a self proclamed geek, fan boy and comedy rock star. You can buy his album and songs at http://mikeymason.bandcamp.com/

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DDOcast Episode 244 (01-07-12)

0:00:33 Intro
0:01:40 DDO News
0:19:54 DDOcast News
0:21:23 Sponsor Break
0:24:04 Rheebus’ Top 10
0:29:44 Shamgar’s Epic Education
0:36:28 Whatcha Been Doing?
0:42:37 DDO Community News
0:50:48 Lighting Post: Mail & Messages!
0:59:39 Crunchy Bits Basics: Spell Resistance & Spell Penitration
1:12:55 General Gaming News: D&D
1:23:50 Post-edit Update: D&D 5th in Progress!
1:27:38 Games not as good as DDO: SWTOR
1:36:46 Closing

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TOTAL TIME: 1:39:21

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LINK for Festivult Continues with the Ice Games. Now through

LINK for Festivult Jester answers his fan mail for the year

LINK for Cannith Challenge Leaderboards on MyDDO

LINK for Deconstructing Greensteel “In the works”

LINK for Let’s Talk with Mad Floyd

LINK for Let’s Talk: Game Difficulty

LINK for Let’s Talk: The Shroud

LINK for Let’s Talk: Enhancements

LINK for Year end letter from Executive Producer Fernando Paiz

LINK for Bug’s Corner: Missing Bags

LINK for DDO Store Sales till January 12th

LINK for Mjoll’s Monster Information Project

LINK for GeoffHanna’s difinitive Catalog of Goggles

LINK for GuntharBovine has updated his “Make Money Fast” guide in DDO

LINK for Eberron Chronicle

LINK for Shade’s Challenge Score leader boards

LINK for Dangers of DDO joins the DDO Forumn hall of fame

LINK for DDOCoctail Hour Rides Again

LINK for Shamgar’s Building Blocks 4

LINK for Shamgar’s Building Blocks 5

LINK for Shamgar’s Building Blocks 6

LINK for Shamgar’s Epic Edication 16

LINK for Shamgar’s Building Blocks 4

LINK for Ryan Dancy’s Backstory on the D&D Franchise under WotC & Hasbro

LINK for New York Times on D&D 5th Ed: “Players Roll the Dice for Dungeons & Dragons Remake”

LINK for Forbes: “‘Wizards’ Announce New Dungeons & Dragons: An Inside Look At The Game”

LINK for Wizhards of the Coast Officiall Annoucement on D&D 5th Ed: “Charting the Course for D&D”

LINK for Classic D&D B/X (Basic & Expert) “Orginal Red Box and Blue Box”

LINK for AD&D 1E Rules

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