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It looks like the change to a Free-to-play model with micro-transactions has worked well for Dungeons & Dragons Online.

Today Turbine announced that they are opening a new server, Orien, tomorrow to handle the growth. Character transfers will not be available at this time. But this is a great chance to create some new toons on a brand new server.

Check out the posting on the Dungeons & Dragons Online website.

Just two months after Turbine introduced the new free-to-play option for Dungeons & Dragons Online, they released the first huge update for the game today.

• Five new adventure packs will be available for purchase on Friday, October 30th for character levels 17 – 19.
• Hair Color Reversal Tokens are available to change the color of your hair back to the original color at character creation.
• Create characters with 32 ability points instead of 28 by earning 1750 favor or spending some Turbine Points.
• Demon Sands Adventure Pack now offers epic difficulty in the Menechtarun Desert adventures for 20th level characters. You must complete the dungeon on elite setting in order to unlock epic challenges.
• Veteran Status will provide you with the ability to create veteran characters who can select their abilities for levels two through four when on the Heart of Wind Airship.

Play Dungeons & Dragons Online? Want to win some real loot? Check out the Play 2 Win Event being hosted by Dungeons & Dragons and the Xfire gaming community.

Through November 2nd, play Dungeons and Dragons Online, join the Official Xfire DDO Community while signed into Xfire and you could win one of these prizes.

For playing 50 or more hours the Grand Prize winner will receive:

• 24″ Samsung Widescreen Monitor
• $1700 CyberPower PC
  Intel Core i7 870
  Nvidia GTX 295 1792MB Graphics Card
  8 GB Ram
  1 TB Hard Drive

For playing 50 or more hours four lucky winners will win:

• XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870 Graphics Card

For playing 25 or more hours 3 lucky winners will receive:

• Samsung 23″ Widescreen Monitor

and for playing one or more hours, 25 lucky winners will receive:

• 1500 Points for the DDO Store

As Halloween approaches there are lots of events taking place in and around your favorite MMO.

Asheron’s Call is holding their AC-themed carved pumpkins event. Carve a pumpkin, take a digital picture and send it in. Four winners will be chosen. The top winner will receive an in-game title “Jack-o’-all Trades” and a pet pumpkin golem.

Champions Online Halloween event is titled “Blood Moon” and runs from October 27th through November 10th. Within this event you will see Celestial, the first new power set introduced, which is a support and healing based set. Saving 13 Undead Heroes will unlock the Celestial power set before anyone else. The set will be unlocked on November 10th for everyone else.

Seven new perks will be available:

1. In Memoriam for freeing all 13 Undead Hero Souls
2. Thrash of the Lich King for driving off Takofanes during the event
3. Silver Bullet for defeating 100 non-player Bloodmoon Werewolves
4. Bite Me for completing Wolfsbane and Leader of the Pack to earn a title and werewolf action figure
5. Leader of the Pack for defeating 100 Hunter Players as a Feral Warrior during the event
6. Wolfsbane for defeating 100 Feral Warrior Players as a Hunter during the event
7. Moonstruck for completing all of the other perks to earn a special action figure

Dungeons and Dragons Online is also having a Pumpkin Carving contest. Carve your pumpkin using a DDO theme and if you are selected as the lucky winner you’ll win 500 Turbine Points.

Fallen Earth is holding a costume contest through October 21st. They are accepting submissions for creative faction-inspired costumes. The top five submissions will receive a Fallen Earth t-shirt, messenger bag and a poster autographed by the development team.

Lord of the Rings Online is hosting a Pumpkin Carving Contest with the first prize winner receiving 1 million copper!

Sony Online Entertainment is hosting several Halloween events both in-game and on their various forums. Take part in everything from Candy Corn Mystery, Pumpkin Carving Forum Challenge and the Haunted Art Forum Challenge.

Dungeons & Dragons Online has opened a preview server, Lamannia so that you can check out Update 1 content and changes before they get pushed to the live servers.

The preview server is open to active account holders and requires you to download the DDO Unlimited and TDM clients for the preview server. If you decide to take part in the preview you will find your Turbine Point balance from live servers as of September 30th, 2009 and you will also find your active characters if you logged in between April 29, 2008 and December 29, 2008.

Check out the posting for more details.