The Ali Angle

Gaming without regret

2011-04-21T16:43:00.000-05:00

When we recorded Episode 18 after DOV launched, Dellmon and I talked about our different approaches to the expansion content. Dell said he was going through the content in a methodical, organized way, so he didn’t miss any part of the story, or block himself from any quests or content. My approach was a little different. Because of my experience with the previous expansion, where I felt like I

Dellmon's Frostfell Gift

2011-01-15T14:37:00.000-06:00

Dellmon sent me a wonderful gift for Frostfell this year: A professionally customized Aliscious Mighty Mugg. This is quite possibly the best gift I've ever received. It makes me all googly to have my EQ2 character, who I've spent 6+ years with, memorialized in Mugg form. She will always be a reminder of our own Mugg project this year. Thank you Dellmon! You're not such a stingy dwarf after all. :

Mugging Dellmon

2010-12-08T21:45:00.000-06:00

I managed to convince Dellmon to take on a little tradeskill project for the holidays this year to help raise money for our favorite charity, Child’s Play. You can get all the details (and find out how to bid on the Aliscious and Dellmon Muggs) on the EQ2 Talk Mugg page. I had some issues with primer. Note to self: Don’t try to apply spray paint on a windy, 40 degree day. I got that all worked

The Scavanator

2010-10-30T12:58:00.000-05:00

After watching our raid get decimated by The Scavanator, my son decided he wanted to be a giant crab for Halloween this year. And I quote, "If I were that crab, you couldn't defeat me!" Of course, he is right. How to make a Scavanator costume... hm. Well, first you procrastinate until 2 weeks before the costume parade at school. Then you run around like a mad woman buying up all the remnants of

Second thoughts

2010-10-28T22:58:00.002-05:00

Tonight while finishing up the Scavanator costume (pictures coming soon!), I listened to Episode 7 of EQ2 Talk. Coming back to it four weeks later, I'm having some second thoughts about some of the things we talked about. While talking about our noob experiment, one of the points we touched on was about some of the elements of the game that have been changed for the new player -- elements such

On guilds, population and cluelessness

2010-10-25T20:03:00.001-05:00

Over the years, my guild has carved out its place in the world of Norrath based on what works, and what its members want--it's sort of defined itself. As my friend (one of the two guild leaders) says, "We're not a raiding guild. We're a guild that raids." Essentially, the raiding that we do is relatively casual. Whoever signs up gets in. People aren't turned away if they don't have such-and-such

Muggs

2010-10-25T00:55:00.002-05:00

My idea for this blog is to talk about things that didn't make it into the show, things I thought about after recording (don't you hate those "ooh, I wish I had said >this<" moments?), and side projects we're doing. So the first side project is the Mighty Muggs project. Basically, it's a take-off on what SOE did for the 2010 Fan Faire, which you can read about here. I thought it would be really