Category Archives: LotRO

Cautiously optimistic on Dragonflight #WorldofWarcraft

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Telwyn

I’m breaking radio silence to post about the World of Warcraft expansion announcement that I just watched live on YouTube: Dragonflight (offical site page). Regular posts won’t resume until mid-late May due to work commitments but a new expansion for … Continue reading →

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Games I should make time for…

Posted on January 30, 2022 by Telwyn

December and January have been very busy times for me for the last four years. As well as IT, I am also responsible for reporting at the company I’ve been working for that long and the annual report is due … Continue reading →

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Writing and gaming update

Posted on July 29, 2021 by Telwyn

As we close in on the end of July, I’ll take a moment to write about what I’ve been up to this month. My first priority, other than working a lot, has been to do as much writing for my … Continue reading →

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“May as well not be an MMO”

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Telwyn

Naithin has a post that’s caused some interesting conversation around MMORPGs and how some of us experience them. His post talks about FFXIV and how solo levelling can lack some of the MMO experience. This made me think back to … Continue reading →

Posted in EQ2, FFXIV, Guild Wars, LotRO, MMORPG, Rift, SWTOR, World of Warcraft | 3 Comments

LOTRO and nostalgia gaming in 2021

Posted on July 10, 2021 by Telwyn

I think I’m immune to the pull of nostalgia in gaming, or have grown largely to be. I logged on to the Lord of the Rings Online Treebeard ‘slow’ progression server and created a new human Loremaster to play through … Continue reading →

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Seeing MMORPG inspiration in other games

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Telwyn

We’ve been playing a good amount of Gloomhaven this last week, partly because Star Wars the Old Republic had issues that kept us from playing two nights in a row. In Gloomhaven we’re busy chasing the achievements to unlock new … Continue reading →

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Buying every character slot #MMORPG #Skylanders

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Telwyn

Husband and I have been playing a good amount of Skylanders, a series of console games where the playable characters are also collectable figures. The urge to play more characters is ever-present, and it is somewhat like having alts in … Continue reading →

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Alting I will go

Posted on March 9, 2021 by Telwyn

Massively OP had a post asking why readers play alt characters a few days ago. At the time I was focused on which game I could play more than which character. I’ve been playing alts almost as long as I … Continue reading →

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Something old or something new?

Posted on March 4, 2021 by Telwyn

I’m contemplating a week off work next week and what I might end up playing to fill some of that time. Restrictions on doing much of anything, other than walks for exercise, mean that gaming is very likely to dominate … Continue reading →

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MMORPG gaming history, part 1

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Telwyn

I noticed via Twitter that some MMORPG players were tweeting lists of the games in the genre they had “ever played (even for just for like a day)”. Belghast has done a blog post on the same topic, with a … Continue reading →

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