There’s a lot of turnover in the blogging world. This crazy hobby (sometimes profession) is one that’s hard to keep up with

You can find today’s post over at Arrens’ blog .

In the open Sunday thread a reader asked whether there was any connection between Tamarind founding a new guild for the blogging community and Gevlon founding a new ganking guild. Obviously the two guilds couldn’t be any more different from each other, Single Abstract Noun is a social guild, while Gevlon posted extremely anti-social guild rules .

Last week, we talked about ways to add flaws to your roleplay character. These flaws have the benefit of providing realistic depth and humanity to characters which might otherwise feel too “perfect” for believability. (Well, as believable as a magic-wielding orc would be.) The idea is that the depth and development creates a more full, well-rounded personality.

[Rirri]: OH GODS WHAT IF IT’S /THAT/ PLAGUE AGAIN [Rirri]: … I can’t give myself the plague, right? [Rirri2]: … right.

As a quick reminder, Too Many Annas is (and will remain) an expansion free zone until about 3-4 weeks before Cataclysm drops . I’ll happily do another round-up post when that time comes, like I did for Wrath of the Lich King, but until then?

15 Minutes of Fame is WoW.com’s look at World of Warcraft personalities of all shapes and sizes — from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, from the remarkable to the player next door.

The great challenge of World of Warcraft roleplay is that, at its very nature, you’re playing a fantastic character. The most mundane character concept is still capable of dropping immense damage and going toe-to-toe (alongside some friends) with some of the Lich King’s most powerful minions

Not every roleplay situation or interaction will be entirely player driven.

I’m not sure whether I’d consider it a very fair reputation, but it definitely seems like roleplay servers have a reputation for not excelling at PvP. Aethros of Cenarion Circle defies that stereotype, with his team of 3v3 scoring 33rd ranked on Whirlwind battlegroup. Only a few weeks into the newest season, Aethros is already toting a personal rating of 2401.

A few weeks ago when I was abruptly dragged away from home for a business trip I went looking for a game to play in my hotel room in the evenings.

One of the more common subjects in World of Warcraft writing is “How to form a raid group.” Alternatives include, “How to find a raid group,” “Does your raid group steal the covers at night?” and “Raid Leaders and the Ghouls that Love Them.” Heck, there’s so much hullabaloo about how to find a compatible guild that I’m waiting for Match.com: the WoW edition. But you don’t see a lot getting written about getting together with roleplay troupes

In the past couple of weeks both Evizaer and Wolfshead have featured articles on the topic of immersion in video games, however neither writer’s definition of the phenomenon rang particularly true to me. As a term, “immersion” is bandied around by gaming pundits when discussing games to describe a mash-up of factors that range anywhere from a “realistic game world” to an “extremely engrossing gaming experience”. The two aforementioned articles illustrate these usages wonderfully: Immersion is a state when the player or spectator (in the case of plays and motion pictures) temporarily suspends their disbelief and willingly transports themselves into the realized world of the creator

Last week’s All the World’s a Stage was focused on the idea that not every character concept is appropriate to every group.

… so you should go read about it ! Today’s post is over at Through the Eyes of Death . (Expect more of this story soon, we’re working on it!) ***Thanks for reading this post from Too Many Annas. May the Loot-Fu be with you*** Arrens is still in the Twisted Nether…

It is somewhat fashionable amongst players of MMORPGs to lash out at a game’s quality assurance team whenever a bug or exploit manages to make its way into the live code. I ran across a couple of particularly galling demonstrations of this attitude in the comments section of the Blessing of Kings blog.

It’s not my goal to discuss whether or not there are actually vampires in WoW . The Crimson Halls certainly seems to support the idea that the Cullen-crowd can get their bite on in Azeroth, maybe even cuddled up against the vampire LARPers . But even with the Sanlayn rocking the vampire thing in Northrend, there still aren’t any playable vampires in WoW

I’m back from my business trip and am hopefully done with travel for a few weeks. I ended up rescheduling my flight to late Thursday night to avoid getting snowed into my hotel – if I’d waited until Friday as planned it was not going to be pretty

You might remember Melvenor from his previous work, the Ballad of Matthias Lehner . He’s now followed up with the Echoes of Lordaeron , which is (I think) a final homage piece to a roleplay thread than ran all through Wrath of the Lich King . As the story goes, Echoes of Lordaeron tells the tale of two soldiers who were friends before the wars.

At the bottom of a recent article about the lost art of roleplay in roleplaying games, Bill tossed out a great theory : My last, and most controversial point I suspect, is that as games develop further into communities working towards common goals there is no need to roleplay.