Over the past week, I’ve seen something that has never happened in my little niche of a girl gamer blog before – 159K total hits, 22k average hits per day, 29k total page views, 4k average page views per day, 11k total visitors, 1.6k average visitors per day. I imagine this may be peanuts compared [...]

First of all let me clarify that I’m talking about “farming” in MMORPGs, and I don’t mean vegetable/pipeweed farming either, which is a perfectly respectable trade in Lord of the Rings Online. I’m talking about killing the same type of mobs over and over again for loot or gold. I have a friend who just [...]

Everyone seems to like the maps I made of the Breeland and Falathlorn housing sites over on my LotRO page. But I’m jonesing for a different kind of map. It’s a special Pirates of the Burning Sea map, “created by historic cartographer and illustrator Johnathan White on parchment, rolled not folded.” If only framing didn’t [...]

I attended an Open House in Middle Earth yesterday. You can read about it here.

For those of you who have been following it, episode 2 of the Stupid Hobbitsess is up on Trinity’s LOTRO Insider blog.If you missed episode 1, it’s not too late to catch up.

So you read The Hobbit in high school and you liked it sufficiently to watch Peter Jackson’s trilogy. In fact, you actually liked the movies and think that Aragorn is cool or that Legolas is hot (depending on which way you swing). You’ve been playing [insert MMORPG name here] for longer than you care to [...]

Last weekend, having reached the open beta level cap on two of my characters on LOTRO, I decided it was time to level them up on their crafting trades. So there I was, peacefully farming pipeweed, when all of a sudden I got a private message from a complete stranger advertising gold and leveling up [...]

As planned, I will be starting to chronicle my LOTRO adventures this week. Since I play regularly with a group of friends every Wednesday and Sunday, I thought I’d write it up every Thursday and Monday but we’ll see how that goes. Wednesdays are a little iffy and we usually play with half a group [...]

Trinity discusses the Hunter Class in LotRO.