Tiny adventures for semi-social adventurers
Wizards of the Coast has launched Dungeons & Dragons Tiny Adventures, an extremely simple role-playing game in Facebook.
The servers seem to be down a lot, but intermittently the application offers glimpses into it.
As a role-playing game it fails utterly.
There’s really no game at all, just a story that is parcelled out one paragraph per ten minutes. Beyond reading the individual chapters there’s no interaction at all, the game plays itself (so this is pretty much just ProgressQuest with a prettier interface).
It doesn’t allow any role-playing at all beyond the selection of equipment - at least in the first adventures there are no choices to be made, just a linear, yet slow-paced blunder through random encounters.
The social aspect of the game is pretty much an afterthought. With the exception of providing healing or temporary “buffs” to your friends, it’s an entirely solitary affair.
While at least the user interface of the application is competently put together, the very limited interaction and especially the nosediving backend detract from the experience.
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