Posts Tagged “World of Warcraft”

Open Thread: RealID

By | July 7, 2010

Today we’re going to focus on RealID, and our own Yva brought it up yesterday. Here are some current Blogs to read on the topic: Too Many Annas Righteous Orbs Quaunaut Stoppable Force Panzercow Please express your thoughts here. Keep them civil, or we’ll disemvowel.

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Lessons from Wrathgate

By | June 23, 2010

So you have this epic plot idea based around an in-game event. How do you handle it? The Wrathgate Project was one way of dealing with it: Organized fiction. There is, of course, another way: Organize an RP session after the In Game Event. This would be a one shot, In Game RP event that [...]

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Open Thread: What Are You Missing?

By | April 22, 2010

Fellow RPers, writers, lore nerds or work-procrastinators, answer me this: What is your RP missing? Do you feel like your toon is missing out on Romance stories, action stories or real character development? Are you at a loss as to how to end a particular Arc? Are you missing a hook for a particular thread? [...]

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Arguing Part 3: The Aftermath

By | April 15, 2010

Three weeks ago, we started a discussion on arguing in RP by talking about the factors that lead up to an argument. Last week, we talked about the ins and outs of arguing in game. This week, we hit the heart of the matter: What happens after the argument. For some individuals an exchange of [...]

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Open Thread: The Fall of Arthas

By | April 12, 2010

Maybe your guild has killed Arthas, maybe you’re making steady progress in ICC or maybe your main RP toon isn’t even in a raid: The end of the Lich King is coming (if it hasn’t already happened). We’ve discussed some of this before, but not in any great detail. I believe with all the Cataclysm [...]

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Rules of Engagement: Arguing in RP (2/3)

By | April 8, 2010

Two weeks ago, we started to discuss arguing in RP. Not everyone enjoys this kind of RP. To be fair, if this is all the RP you ever get to engage in, it gets old fast. Arguments, even fictitious ones, can be stressful events. While I maintain that regular arguments are healthy (both in real [...]

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This is the End

By | March 4, 2010

No, I am not quoting the Doors. I am not deleting Bricu nor am I ending my run on WTTRP. I’m talking about the end, the conclusion, of stories. I have a problem with endings. I think I can hook a players into a story. With enough time and participation, I can push the story [...]

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Wrathgate Wednesday: Still Organized

By | March 3, 2010

Welcome to Wrathgate Wednesday, the public retelling of the Wrathgate Cinematic by the Wildfire Riders of Feathermooon (US). Let’s review: Tarquin ap Danwyrth and his merry band of miscreants signed up to fight the Lich King (known by Northerners as The Bloody Prince) and agreed to man a ballistae post over looking the battlefield. Tarq [...]

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Friday Fiction Writing Assignment: Shakedown

By | February 12, 2010

Righto folks, here’s the deal: Your assignment, should you chose to accept it, is to write up how your character was approached by an indidivual of questionable standing (the Riders are using Bricu) and asked to impose themselves in the way of a shakedown (searching a building, taking someone into custody, obessively looking into your [...]

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The Absolute Value of Badass: A Meditation

By | January 21, 2010

If you’re an old school nerd, this question is one you have probably pondered for ages: Who would win in a fight, X or Y? Nerds can go on for hours about why their candidate–be it comic book character, Starship captain or Operating Syste–is the most bad ass example of awesome ever conceived. In short, [...]

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