{"id":1658,"date":"2009-06-29T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2009-06-29T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T14:39:06","slug":"still-making-a-hobbit-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/still-making-a-hobbit-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Still making a hobbit of it."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Kate and I started playing Lord of the Rings Online about two years ago. \u00a0I&#8217;m only aware of this because, last night, Kate dinged her second character to level 60 (the current maximum level), I was there to take the screenshots, and then I went in and started browsing the screenshot directory from the very beginning, and we had a lovely pictoral walk down memory lane.<\/p>\n<p>I was poking through the blog archives this morning, looking for something else entirely when I stumbled across the post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/making-a-hobbit-of-it\/\">Making a hobbit of it<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0from September of 2007, in which I talked about our decision to play LotRO together, and my initial &#8216;briefing&#8217; on the game. \u00a0I&#8217;m pleased to see that most of the tips and observations on gameplay are still true (and pretty good), with the awesome stuff just getting better. \u00a0Not all the characters I mention in that post survived to 2009, but &#8220;the most potent pair we have&#8221; are still inarguably our main characters &#8212; despite his being level 60, I spent most of my play time yesterday on Geiri, and I still have a laundry list of stuff I want to do on him. \u00a0That&#8217;s good, fun game design, as far as I&#8217;m concerned.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the current tally of toons? \u00a0Let&#8217;s see:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doyce<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Geiri Kinshield, dwarf of the Lonely Mountain, level 60 Guardian, miner, jewelcrafter, and a damn fine cook.<\/li>\n<li>Finnras Delain, man of Gondor, level 60 Captain, combat-librarian.<\/li>\n<li>Emyl the Undying, dwarf of the White Mountains, level 35 rune keeper, wandering drunk.<\/li>\n<li>Tyelaf, man of Dale, level 28 hunter, explorer.<\/li>\n<li>Finir, dwarf of the Lonely Mountain, level 24 minstrel, scholar.<\/li>\n<li>Kaetlyn Delain, woman of Gondor, level 24 Warden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Kate<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tiranor, elf of Mirkwood, level 60 Hunter, woodcrafter.<\/li>\n<li>Tirathien Aerlinn, elf of Lothlorien, level 60 Minstrel, tailor.<\/li>\n<li>Tirawyn, woman of Rohan, level 29 Captain, weapon smith.<\/li>\n<li>Tiradis, elf of Mirkwood(?), level 24 Champion, explorer.<\/li>\n<li>Tirra, hobbitses, level 22 burglar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to figure out which characters are Kate&#8217;s, regardless of who she&#8217;s got logged in.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, we&#8217;re still having a pretty darn good time with this game. \u00a0In hindsight, we probably should have just bought the lifetime subscription and saved some money. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate and I started playing Lord of the Rings Online about two years ago. \u00a0I&#8217;m only aware of this because,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actual-play","category-mmos","tag-lotro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}