Casual Stroll to Mordor

Depending on your kinships style of play or member activity, a website can bring members together for various reasons. Event scheduling, forum activity, member communication, kinship rules/information, active roster and media sharing can all be possible reasons a kinship is needed.

Wordpress is one of the most popular open source CMS’ in existence! With close to 27 thousand users, WordPress is also without a doubt the most used blog platform on the web!

This week while playing on my new Rune Keeper, I decided to quest in a few areas I hadn’t done in the past. Low levels in the Shire and some quests in the odd quest off near Thorin’s hall helped to break up the scenery nicely

In Part I, we looked at each mob, the way the mobs enter the “Arena” and finally the way the mobs behave. One thing that was left out purposefully is the Corruption Removal Techniques that help you defeat bosses. Many people commented that this was extremely important, and I can’t agree more. So have no fear, I haven’t forgotten to include that in this guide.

This week is the all mighty and powerful E3. And in good old E3 Fashion… they get to see the fun stuff first. PCGamer has done us a service by posting some great news on F2P Turbine Store Items! See their article with some blurry pictures of the store items!

EGGuides (End Game Guides) is a new mini-project I’m doing to keep players involved and interested in End Game content. Feel free to let me know if you’d like to help out or get involved!

This chart was posted at The Beta Signup subpage. I ran over this link on the forums and felt it was necessary to post it on to you all.

This is the first of many LOTRO related videos being posted by a small 3 man project known as The Arda Show. The original video surfaced on the 5th of May on GameSharkVideo’s youtube channel and was titled “Interview with LOTRO”. I don’t think they knew what that had on their hands or this would have surfaced a little faster!

I have seen game mechanics and game features/system that have changed the way we play MMOs today. Features like the modern day Aggro Mechanic all the way up to LOTRO’s Cosmetic system. These unique ideas and features in games often become well known find themselves into other games in one form or another. This is how game development works and is a healthy part of how progress is made.

Standing in line with close to 100 other press and media members at PAX East was an interesting feeling. Even more interesting to me after the fact is that with almost 200 booths and millions of dollars in advertising and PR display setups the only thing on my mind was the half a second glimpse I had of the booth as I peaked in the night before.

Today while browsing the world wide interwebs I found myself watching a video of a Russian LOTRO Server. The video was titled “LOTRO, Creeps in Forochel” and can be viewed on theLOTRONetwork.com or on YouTube. The video titled immediately threw up a flag for me. Lets go over a little back story here. Forochel is the region just north of Evendim.

Fishing got boring fast…End of Article. Ok, so maybe I should look at things in a different way. Maybe, I should do something constructive! Maybe you should help me! That all sounds good, so lets get started! The Hobbies came to LOTRO on the wings of some really cool changes and updates. For that reason [...]

In part III we will be looking over the options and ways to do Live Streaming LOTRO game play through a number of sources. Some of them very easy, and others… Not so much.

The new skill upgrade at level 64 changes a lot for the hunter class. Sure it has some down sides (For those who don’t play smart), but for the most part this gives hunters a chances to make some decisions that could change the course of battle!

How should Turbine handle the move from following single fellowship to following multiple members through their own individual adventures and challenges?

In part II of the “The Records of Battle”, we will go over recording game play using XFire!

Ever wonder how people record gameplay or even stream it live online? Well wonder no more! In this three part article we will go over recording gameplay to a hard drive as well as streaming it live!

The Foundations Project is a look into Kinshps of LOTRO. From creation and execution to politics and planning, The Foundation’s Project will be an in depth look into what it takes to make a strong, successful kinship in LOTRO!

Throughout MMOs player interaction has created stereotypes and euphemisms that transcend gaming and enter into the vocabulary of the general public. As Goldenstar points out in “Newb vs Noob”, players of all sorts come together and often things can get hairy! These groups formed from chat requests and /lff channels can be united under one name…