Dungeons And Dragons Online: Official Dev Roundtable: Solo versus Group

The official DDO site has the first release of a new feature, the Devs Roundtable. This article tackles the issue of soloing versus running with a group.

As many of you already know, Dungeons & Dragons Online will focus on group-oriented gameplay. There are a few reasons for this, but the primary one is that PnP D&D has always been a group game, and the ruleset reflects this. Since one of our stated goals is to preserve the ruleset as much as possible within the context of an online game, we've decided to keep the group focus and most of the rules that encourage interdependency.

You can read the introduction here, which then links to two seperate opinions from devs. The first, from Heather Sinclair, is here, and Jesse "devilmouse" Kurlancheek's take on the topic is here.