Pet peeves: The return (Part 8)

wait i thought that was the rp server damnit

its whats jarring about comparing the rp communities of other games to wow. i can speak from experience how diffrent it is. wow we have it good in that you can find walkup rp in some places at nearly all hours of the day.

inother games, gw2 in my case, all rp was curated to a specific time of day or location depending on the day of the week and coming to that from wow didnt feel great. but it was the standard norm. smaller communities and all that

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That was what sold me. From the colorful trees and flowers of Celondim to the melancholic snowy hills of Thorin’s Gate, Ered Luin is simply gorgeous.

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the music of the region is gorgeous as well. really captures that vibe of dwarf from the 2000-2010’s youd get from the likes of Dun Morogh and Orzammar
(160) Lord of the Rings Online dwarf music - YouTube

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The ambient music in Lotro overall is excellent. One of the few games where I prefer listening to it over anything else when playing.

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on occassion ive put it on when rping or doing any content in certain games.

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I have this playing in my house on Lotro. (You can set room ambience music)

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Yes. The elf areas music is beautiful too.

It’s a shame that you can’t play as a dark-skinned elf or female dwarf (purists be damned), but that’s my modern sensibilities speaking.

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Making a beardless or atleast smaller bearded dwarf would be great. I do think their intent was that dwarves in Lotro are just both genders due to the beard stuff & only they can tell eachother apart.

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i hold out hope for dark skinned elves but less so for female dwarves unless they dont mind doing a new model.

on the notion of dwarves from that era of games I always wished the dwarves of guild wars were playable. they were fascinating to me in the original game. alas they had to go extinct and only have 2 actual music tracks attached to them

wasnt there a dwarf race added that were enslaved in mordor that compared to the base game dwarves did have the option of female but the model was still the exact same? or am i imagining things

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This is one of the rare cases where I blame an adaptation for being too close to the text. Sure, Tolkien can write this in a book, but it just won’t scan for a mass market visual medium.

But then, LOTRO was developed before the broad consensus on depicting dwarf women in visual media developed.

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Stout-axes yes, they are basically the “evil” dwarf race that has been freed.

There’s also river-hobbits now(Smeagol’s people) and a new class based on Corsairs from Umbar. (Captain).

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Looking for argonian gf

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I have two!

Wields-Shadows(She is a vampire)

And “Steals-your-shoelaces”. I think she was the stealth/rogue class.

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Considering how early it began development and how Tolkien book purists can be, I’m happy that we even got the option to play martial and warrior classes as women with no problem whatsoever. It really do be that simple!

It is also deeply refreshing to have an MMO where female armor is not just string bikinis and boob-plate. Especially for the time it was made in.

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The Silverm–Argonian shoe bandit…

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She specifically only steals shoelaces, thank you very much!

Now where’s yours?

my bright-throat finds the wedding terms agreeable

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What about our agreements?!

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rejects you both

Because you got poor taste in women :nail_care:

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