SUWT #12

Shut Up, We’re Talking! #12 is up. I had the pleasure of being part of it, along with Grimwell (SOE EQ2 Community Manager) and Tom-Tom from Gamer’s Mind. Thanks, Darren, for being such an awesome host! Darren really knows how to keep the discussion going and moving to interesting places. I was positive I’d have … Read more

LotRO: Finished Book III

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Yes, I am rushing through Lord of the Rings Online. There’s way too much exciting stuff happening in EverQuest 2 to stay away much longer; the release of Neriak and the dark Fae; Kunark coming in the fall; LotRO has to be done and finished by then.
Book 3 deals with the fight of the Dunadain — the Rangers — against the tide of evil creatures coming from the North. They have taken over the ancient city of Fornost and are spread throughout the plains of Dol Dinan.

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LotRO: Book II Finished (yay!?)

The Hobbits, we find at the end of Retake Weathertop, have made it safely to Rivendell.  With them out of harm’s way, for a time, it’s up to the numberless heroes of the world to do their part. In Book II, we find the source of the Red Marsh’s evil, the immortal Red Maid, and redeem some long-dead shades who broke an oath and must now be summoned for one final mission to save them all.
Making Aragorn look like a bit of a copycat when he does it in “Return of the King”.

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LotRO: Book II

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Lysistra and the Good Humor man at level 27, in Trestlebridge
I joined a group last night and we were amazing, we were on fire, we went around the North Downs killing… spiders, and wolves. And I think we may have killed one or two bears.
Seriously. Not since the original Dark Ages of Camelot has a MMO reused the same couple of models in so many different ways. I have three or four different titles from killing spiders. This isn’t an epic. It’s a spider-killing simulator.

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LotRO: The Song of Lysistra

Young Frodo, to you has fallen the most perilous task. You must bring the Ring to Mordor. But first, kill twenty boars and bring me their tusks. I will also require their hooves, but I won’t tell you that until you get back with the tusks. Oh! Young Lysistra is come out of the West, … Read more