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 […]
Category Archives: world of warcraft
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]