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But He’s Been Here Forever

In my guild, we have a long-time mem­ber, I’ll call him Mark. He’s a good and friendly per­son, but he’s def­i­nitely not offi­cer mate­r­ial. Passive-aggressive, flaky, self-centered. Mark’s been pin­ing for offi­cer­ship for years. I haven’t been in offi­cer­ship for a while (because I’ve been raid­ing more dia­pers than instances), but I was sur­prised to learn […]

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Bad Character Names

You’ve got a new char­ac­ter for a big mas­sively mul­ti­player game, so you need a name. How do you come up with a good name? Good ques­tion! I might write about that another time. This is a list of what peo­ple do wrong. It was writ­ten with both a genero-fantasy set­ting and a stan­dard English […]

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Swâpped Letters in Namês

In these won­der­ful online games, the longer one sin­gle name­space exists, the fewer the names avail­able in that name­space. At some point, all the good names are going to be taken. What then? Gúess.

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Return of the Mixed Blessing

“Hey guys, I’M BACK” What fol­lows isn’t always a fan­fare of trum­pets for the offi­cers of that guild.

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WQ: Grizzly Hills Stink

I recently wrote some gush­ing praise on Wrath quest­ing–about how Bliz­zard finally has it fig­ured out, how it’s great fun, blah blah blah. All that was before my wife and I moved into the Griz­zly Hills. Now, I’m eat­ing my words. What a mas­sive come­down this zone is after Drag­onblight! Let’s run down really quickly the change […]

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