Dungeons & Dragons Tiny Adventures Launches

Wizards of the Coast has launched a neat little Facebook-powered application called Dungeons & Dragons Tiny Adventures that’s designed to introduce players to the 4th Edition ruleset. Here’s how WotC VP of digital gaming Randy Buehler describes it:

It’s basically a free game that we’re giving away to Facebook users in an effort to draw more attention to D&D in general and to the D&D Insider free trial in particular. The game lets you choose a character and then send that character off on adventures. You can just check in on your character periodically and read updates (I think of them as postcards from the road) or you can spend lots of time fiddling with potions and inventory. In addition, you and your friends can buff and heal each other so it pays off to get all your friends to play too. We’re pretty happy with it I think it’s a fun diversion for hard-core D&D players and it’s also a fun introduction for newbies.

Finally a reason to actually sign up for Facebook, though it appears that the server seems to be having issues at the moment.