I was pretty excited when Tiny Adventures first came out. Yay! A D&D app for Facebook. But then it crashed. And crashed. And crashed. And crashed. And died. Came back. Crashed. Crashed. Crashed.
It was frustrating.
Lots of my friends uninstalled the application at that point, grumbling that WotC had again failed at making something technological.
I’m here to say that Tiny Adventures is better now! It’s not crashing (at least any more than Facebook apps normally crash) and they’ve added some neat features. Here’s a peek at some of the changes:
Auto-Drink Potions
How annoying was it when you had to actually check up on your character to drink a potion? I mean, seriously, I don’t stalk Facebook all day. Sometimes I’d manage to log in and catch myself about to die and drink the potion in time. 90% of the time, I’d die with a healing potion in hand.
If you think about it, what character WOULDN’T drink a healing potion if she were about to die? You’d think it would be instinctual.
Now you can check off a box that says “Drink when hit points fall below x” for each healing potion. For stat boosting potions that last x number of encounters, you can check off that you drink it before the last x number of encounters. Pretty smart.
Shopping Is Better & Faster
The store is now divided up into three sections:
- Limited-Time Offers – the kind that randomly change after each encounter.
- Personal Offers – these items stay in the store until you purchase or reject the offer. They tend to be bigger ticket items. What’s nice is if something pops up that you want but can’t afford, at least you know it will stay there until you have the gold.
- Your Inventory - minus the equipment you are wearing/using.
The Buy/Sell buttons no longer refresh the page, making shopping a lot quicker. For a while there was a “Sell all red items” button, but they took it out. I’m hoping it makes a comeback because it certainly made things easier coming back with a giant load of stuff I couldn’t use.
One beef – the shop will give you personal offers that you can’t use. Not so personal, is it? Also, it’s silly to show you weapons of +1 ATK when you’re wielding one of +10…
Gender Equity
There are now female and male options for every race when you start a new character. Hooray!
Drow and SwordMage?
There’s also the option to play a drow now, which I know excites all the Drizzt fanboys.
Once you’ve retired 5 heros, the SwordMage class is unlocked. I’m only on my second generation hero. This will take awhile.
IronMan and Elite Leaderboards
The Leaderboards now have categories for IronMan (5+ retired heros) and Elite (? – nobody on that board yet, but I’d assume 10 or more retirees?). It will be interesting to see how long it takes for people to populate both of those. I’m in no rush.
Chill Out, It’s Just a Facebook App
For those folks who freak out about the program not being realistic, not being like real D&D, not having enough choices, not having party members, etc etc… take a chill pill. It’s a fun little app. It’s not serious gaming. It’s just something fun to check in on when you’re avoiding work. The good news is that it’s running way better than it was when it first launched. If your main gripe was with the crashing, I’d install it again and give it a second whirl.
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I’m putting my 5th generation hero through Ironman right now…psyched to get Swordmage!…
After you complete your 3rd generation hero, your character gets a neat class specific power to help them on their adventures…my current rogue can give himself a +3 to Dex and Traps for 3 encounters every adventure…
This is still my favorite part, though…
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I’m in the middle of my 2nd generation character as well. I also gave up during the bad times and really hope that it would crash less often. Haven’t play it during the peak hours (which is usually at night for me) so I woulnd’t know (yet).
My only complaint about it so far is while they have made buying and selling without refreshing the page. It usually hangs on me and I’ve only managed to sell one item.
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Eh, still just too boring for me. It takes all the stats of D&D and removes the brains.
It was fun for a day or so, but the underlying concept is just too thin.
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I also have my 2nd gen char going strong.. my new paladin seems to have an easier time with AC11 armor
(friend me in FB for buffs !)
Downsides : shop and loot
shop > why the heck propose something i can’t use ? (do i look like a wand user ? hummm? armor and big ass sword and you propose a wand?)
Loot : how come playing a warlock i get only swords, but when i play my paladin i only get wands ? humm..
Auto-sell feature would be welcome
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I just completely agree with Micah. There is simply nothing to do with this game. You select an adventure. Come back later to sell the loot. Once a month you’ll be able to buy something. Then you retire… There is more fun in playing Solitaire in Windows
Oh yes, everyday, you can give bonuses to friends. Yay for the social game!!!
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Hmmm…
I might have to get a Facebook account. =/
@ Loky – You should. Myspace is soooooooooo 2007.
The games sucks; period.
It still crashes ALL the time.
It is even more buggy that it was in “beta” and it gets worse almost by the hour.
People are leaving the game in droves.
The game is highly unbalanced and simply just boring.
I like the game. D&D doesn’t crash at all for me. Currently I’m close to retiring my 5th generation character. When I’m about to change characters, I like getting the offers for stuff my current character can’t use. Last time I saw this cool suit of armour, bought it and made sure the new guy could use it. D&D plays in the back ground while I do real work. All I have to do is check in once in a while. The challenge for me is to choose equipment and potions wisely to win the max number of encounters per adventure. I love the auto play feature.
Come on! I agree with Mike. The only thing that keeps me in this game are the pop culture reference in the adventures. D&D is a game to play with peoples. I was totally into it for a while but i got bored. It never crashed on me though.
I’m on my 13th adventurer now. Still having fun.
I think we all wish there was a bit more interaction/involvement with the game, but it is FREE to the facebook user so I guess I can’t complain too much. I usually start an adventure before I leave to work in the morning and another when I get home in the evening. It’s currently not worth the time to babysit with 10 min or between each encounter.