Archive For July, 2009
So, you’ve spent hours (days! weeks!) working out your character’s backstory. You RP walk around town, or happen upon RPers gathered in a tavern, and — at last! — someone asks who you are, where you come from, all that good story-stuff. /glee Out come the ten pages of notes, the spreadsheet of NPCs, the… [...]
The Wildfire Riders – Chryste by *JRinaldi on deviantART For the record, the Wildfire Riders do not typically employ individuals who have committed mass murder. There are, of course, exceptions to this rule. Case in point: Chystal Kaleigh, a woman who has been through hell and back–typically by escorting unsavory bastards to their proper demise–is [...]
Or are we a flock? Maybe a tribe? I kinda prefer gaggle myself. It’s just a fun word to say. So, this weekend Feathermoon’s finest (well, not all of them, but a good chunk of them) got together at a dorktastic gathering called Feathermeet. This event has gone on for four years now, is organized by [...]
Bitter Frustration by *JRinaldi on deviantART As beautiful as WoW is, the mechanics of the game limit certain scenes. The stock emotes may not adequately demonstrate a characters particular quirks, and /em does not make a toon move in a particular fashion. Sometimes, these limitations encourage players to develop their writing ability–to show how the [...]
This weekend, my computer is going to be off while I enjoy the company of the rest of the Want To Trade: RP folk. We’ll be out in the sunshine (or light drizzle, I haven’t checked for Seattle’s weather), talking WoW, Real Life and drinking. Oh, there will be drinking. There will be minor updates–we’re [...]
On Monday evening, the Midsummer Night’s RP Writing Contest ended with a few last minute entries that managed to sneak by in the last hour. We had excellent submissions – and quite a good number of them. So now the hard part begins… Judging. Basic judging criteria will be along the lines of the following [...]
Yva Darrows scared the hell out of a number of Wildfire Riders for years. Before Battlegrounds, she was the Ice Witch of Tarren Mill: Killing a number of Alliance folks (Only nearly killing PCs) in the PVP matches that occurred regularly in Hillsbrad. She has killed friends (an accident), kidnapped children (only to bake for [...]
For reference, here’s the track: In any discussion of music and character, I always default to this song being perfect for Bricu–my trickster in paladin plate–and today I’m going to spell out why. First, I have a confession. I came to the conculsion that Dirty Old Town was Bricu’s song while I was visiting people [...]
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