The Elf and Dwarf

Ady went out of town for the weekend and Rorlins is buried in final exams (giving not taking; always better to give then recieve right?) so we did not record as usual Sunday.  We are planning to record a show on Wednesday after our second official baby doctor visit though so stay tuned.

Here’s the official Voting Comment for the show’s new logo.  Please place your votes by Sunday April 29!  Vote by leaving a comment with the number you want to vote for.

Logo #1:  From Pithius

Logo #2 from Lena (and her husband at HOLE)

Logo #3 from James at Nobody’s Listening

And Logo #4 from Kaliem our Guildy

Just leave a comment with your vote!  Thanks to everyone to contributed and thanks to our listeners for helping us decide on one!

Here are some of the logo’s we gotten so far a little about the creators:

 This comes from Pithius and is a variation on a banner he gave us:

Then from Lena we got this submission.  It should be noted that her husband has a webcomic called “Heroes of Lesser Earth” (aka HoLE), and you should check them out.  Here’s a linky:  HoLE!

Then from the Nobody’s Listening Podcast comes this entry.  Again, check out This Link to see what they’re up to over there!

And finally for those still working, here’s a screenie of our characters on their mounts:

Rorlins would like to note, however, that he no longer has the headband.  He now has a the “floppy hat” style hat and will probably keep it forever….

The big topic of the week was on the subject of “Surviving your first 30 minutes in a RP guild”.

Some clips from the email bag to share:

From Pithius’s emails about knowing your role: Specifically with Adeldia and her hunter she just needs to understand 1 thing, as a hunter you do much more damage through your ranged weapons that you will do with melee. So long as you understand this, there is absolutely nothing wrong with charging in and smacking a creature as long as it dies and you don’t. Every class has melee weapons for a reason. Even with a mage from time to time I will charge in and start swinging with my staff when it is “safe” to do so just because I want to change things up. Play your way and don’t take crap from others who think they know how you should or should not do things.

From Bronson on the subject of faction mounts: As an undead rogue, I loath the humans! I was not going to ride some undead version of their mounts. So, I went to the starting area for the orcs and did ALL the quests that an orc had to give. I got close and was loosing hope on getting my wolf mount. Another friend told me about the War Effort.

The War Effort lets you collect leather, ore, herbs and band aides. You turn them in and you will get REP with whoever you turn the items into. Also, I turned in cloth in Orgrimmar. Some NPC that was like a tailor or something, cannot remember. When I hit level 40, I could not run fast enough to get my wolf. A rogue sitting on a wolf mount… COOL!!! I hope this helps you get your saber.

Senkakusha’s comments on Irish Music: When I think of remade Irish music, the bands I really come to think of is Dropkick Murphy’s and Flogging Molly. Don’t know if you’ve heard of them, but the Murphy’s are pretty much hardcore punk, that remake older folk songs and newer ones. They are a great band to drink to, if you don’t mind getting overly pumped and tend to feel the need to headbang and break stuff while intoxicated (somewhat guilty at times, except for the breaking stuff part.) Flogging Molly is more mellow, with more of a traditional sound with a little modern guitar and drums thrown in the mix. Check them out if your into the irish stylings of music. I think you’ll like them

So some help to you: Flogging Molly is found here while Dropkick Murphys are here

Also you should check out our friend Lorim/ Demis and her new podcast at: http://www.rptavern.blogspot.com/ They are also on iTunes as the RPTavern if you want to find them there: Linky here to iTunes.

Speaking of iTunes, if you like what you hear feel free to leave a comment for us at: Our iTunes page and Our Podcast Alley Page.

If you want to share a comment feel free to email us at theelfanddwarf@yahoo.com.

We talked about a lot of good emails this week but a two really stuck out as big.

On the subject of “Should I be worried if my spouse games a lot without me?” we had lots of statistics so Adeldia makes some of the links to her various sources available here:

http://www.probe.org/content/view/1191/173/ http://www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/infidelitystats.html http://blog.womenforhire.com/2007/02/flirting-at-the-office.html http://www.newsdaily.com/Quirks/UPI-1-20070205-16034900-bc-britain-flirts.xml

Also of note is the Daedalus project: http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/ which is a complete survey of research data into the nature of online gaming and relationships.

We wanted to send out some congrats to Kris on making level 70! Also welcome to Spheniscus and welcome to Sterling!

Oh, and check out /Rolecraft for Jim’s new article on “What is Roleplaying?” Good read there: http://rolecraft.wordpress.com/

And watch http://www.anomalypodcast.com/ for Jen and Angela’s podcast as a pair of geeky girls talk about all things geek.

Speaking of watching, Lorim’s new podcast focusing on RPing is coming soon. We’ll keep you posted on where to find it once she’s up and running.

And finally a link to Blackthorn: http://www.blackthorn1.com

We started out a little out of order, going right into the meet of the show. This week was pretty self contained so there are few notes to post but here are some we wanted to get out:

Next week we are likely to be talking about WoWmances gone wrong. If you’d like to weigh in how you approach a significant who’s spending too much time playing with other people we’d love to hear your thoughts at theelfanddwarf@yahoo.com . Specifically we’ll be responding to a comment from a guildmate about his situation. His wife and he both play, but they play seperately. They sit in the same room but have their own guilds, parties and raids. He is starting to get worried she’s spending too much time with “other men” and asks if he’s being naive to think that something won’t develop.

Your thoughts and ideas prior to our show would be very welcome.

Also feel free to check out our guild forums if you’d like to comment on the show in a place that others can comment as well.

This week we are joined by Avonna, Adeldia’s mom, who not only tried her first MMO, but her first ever video game. After a few hours of play we all sat down and talked about what we thought of the experience, if she’s hooked, and how approachable WoW is to really any kind of player. This show turned out a bit more conversational then usual, but it was a great deal of fun to record and Avonna provided some intersting dirt on Adeldia’s youth. Of course another trivia contest inspired by ingame happenings comes and we announce last week’s winner.

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Shoutouts:

This week’s topic was on mistakes that RPers often make and some ideas to help you avoid them yourself as you RP and as you write up your character.

Server news:

Game News

Contest Winner! Congrats to Kotal of Blackwater Raiders for correctly identifying the character of Lt. Cmdr. Tom Dodge in the movie Down Periscope played by Kelsey Grammer. Interesting enough, Mr. Grammer did not graduate from college but was issued an honorary degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2001

We made it to 40! Go us!

Shoutouts:

This week we talked about the rise to 40 and some of the things we learned a long the way. Some short forms of the major lessons we learned:

Server news:

Our email bag was full this week so here are some exerpts and comments (and links!):

First a thank you to everyone who wrote in to share that the Naga are magically mutated elves. That explains the deviation from the 4-limb and 6-limb body plans.

We got an email from Ryan Prater where he writes in response to Adeldia’s “I can’t solo a priest” comment: Adeldia made a comment that alluded to the priest not being much of a solo class. I’ve played a priest up to 70, and at lower levels, I can agree that it can be a bit painful. My suggestion is to stick with a shadow spec and soloing isn’t bad. Once you get in the 20s or 30s leveling gets better and once 40 (shadowform) hits, you are golden. I primarily play my priest to heal and you can still heal fine as a shadow spec. When you get into some of the Outlands instances it can be tough though. I converted to holy/disc and healing now is much more efficient. Let me know if you have any questions as I find this class to be very enjoyable.

He also gave a pretty complete list of recommended mods. We’ll check these out this week and report on them:

Another listener Anachan on Warsong writes in response to our comments about girls grouping: I thought I was deficient or something!! But now I know I’m perfectly normal, lol. I am one of those women who is afraid to group for fear of ruining it for everyone, and one of those who just doesn’t like to have anyone tell me how to play. (Especially if it comes from my husband, lol.) I feel a lot less badly about myself, now that I know it’s not just me.

We talked a lot about this and how easy it is when you think you really know how to do a quest, to get into a “do it my way” mentality. Even we feel into the “no, no, stop having fun your way; play our way” mode this weekend in the Deadmines.

Last we asked a trivia question: Who created the character on which Bhag’thera (the black panther in Stranglethorn Vale) is based on?

Congrats to Ryan Prater for coming up with the right answer: Rudyard Kipling. He created the character of Bagera in his story collection The Jungle Books, which featured tales based on his travels in India. It includes the story of Riki-tiki-tavi, one of Rorlins’s favorites. Send us your info and we’ll get your map out to you post haste.

This week there were two new contests, remember that the trivia needs to be to use by Saturday of this week, and you have two weeks for the bio contest.

All contest entries should be sent to theelfanddwarf@yahoo.com

The show opened with the announcment that we have helped charter a guild on the Blackwater Raiders server “Sterling”. It is a moderate RP (guild chat is in-character), casual play guild with a focus on grouping, instances, having fun, and if we get high enough, on raiding. If you’re interested in more, contact Garnil (the GM), Rorlins or Adeldia in game, or visit the Guild Hall.

Shout outs were few besides that with a wave to Naetylia who said “hi” to Rorlins.

We talked about how to find RPers so here some links to points of interest we talked about:

The Found on the Forums segment was a short discussion of people who can’t seem to follow the naming rules for the game, let alone those for an RP server, while Adeledia’s Animals of Azeroth was all about “could that fly”. Comments are welcome of course if you want to email us at theelfanddwarf@yahoo.com

And we closed with our first trivia contest. Be the one first to email us the correct answer and you have a chance to win a beautiful complete map of Azeroth!