Merric & I were not able to make the trek out to Seattle this year for PAX Prime. Fortunately for us we have amazing listeners/readers. Michael contacted us willing to feed us his experiences so we can live vicariously through him! We really appreciated his offer and are super pleased to share some photos Michael sent to us from last night.
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Goldenstar posted this on September 3rd, 2010.
Categorized as Events, PAX.
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New Enedwaith Furniture
Kiarane posted this on September 3rd, 2010.
Categorized as Enedwaith, General, furniture, housing.
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The new region is finally live and with it brand new furniture for your home! All the items you will find in the area are listed below.
As you can see, we’re still looking for some pictures! You can send you screenshot at kiarane@casualstrolltomordor.com or the address where we can find the item in-game.
| Bull Banner Type: Small Yard Vendor: Mabon Faction: Algraig, Men of Enedwaith, Aquaintance Price: 10 Silver Tokens of the Wild and 5 Gold Token of the Wilds |
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| Dragon Banner Type: Small Yard Vendor: Mabon Faction: Algraig, Men of Enedwaith, Aquaintance Price: 10 Silver Tokens of the Wild and 5 Gold Token of the Wilds |
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| Falcon Banner Type: Small Yard Vendor: Mabon Faction: Algraig, Men of Enedwaith, Aquaintance 10 Silver Tokens of the Wild and 5 Gold Token of the Wilds |
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| Stag Banner Type: Small Yard Vendor: Mabon Faction: Algraig, Men of Enedwaith, Aquaintance Price: 10 Silver Tokens of the Wild and 5 Gold Token of the Wilds |
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| White Hand Banner Type: Small Yard Vendor: Mabon Faction: Algraig, Men of Enedwaith, Aquaintance Price: 10 Silver Tokens of the Wild and 5 Gold Token of the Wilds |
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| Bull Totem Type: Small Yard Vendor: Mabon Faction: Algraig, Men of Enedwaith, Ally Price: 10 Silver Tokens of the Wild and 5 Gold Token of the Wilds |
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| Dragon Totem Small Yard Vendor: Mabon Faction: Algraig, Men of Enedwaith, Ally Price: 10 Silver Tokens of the Wild and 5 Gold Token of the Wilds |
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| Falcon Totem Type: Small Yard Vendor: Mabon Faction: Algraig, Men of Enedwaith, Ally Price: 10 Silver Tokens of the Wild and 5 Gold Token of the Wilds |
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| Stag Totem Type: Small Yard Vendor: Mabon Faction: Algraig, Men of Enedwaith, Ally Price: 10 Silver Tokens of the Wild and 5 Gold Token of the Wilds |
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| Awesome Ziggurat Type: Small Yard Vendor: Cannuion (58.6, 14.5) Faction: Grey Compagny, Kindred Price: 7 Silver Tokens of the Wild and 5 Gold Token of the Wilds |
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| Stoor Boots Type: Small Furniture Note: From Completing Little Wonder Deed |
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The new items will be integrated to the Decoration Guide when we’ll have all the pictures!
Thank you to Silverexpress, Rosalila, Bullroarer Kinship and Branholm for the help so far!
Player Achievements for the Week
Goldenstar posted this on September 3rd, 2010.
Categorized as Player Achievements, achievement.
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Each week we ask you to share your successes in Middle Earth with the rest of the community. Post a comment letting us know what you’ve accomplished this past week. We will pick comments at random to read on the podcast giving you a chance for a little shout out for yourself!
Our shout-outs are only as good as the information we get so remember:
- Don’t forget to add your character name, what server you play on and if you like, add your Kinship if you have one. Hard to give you a Shout-Out if you don’t include it!
- Please keep your posts brief. We won’t be able to read full novels of your adventures. At least make it so we can easily sum it up!
- Do not be afraid to post any of your achievements. We don’t care if you just saved Archet or cleared out Dol Guldur. We want to hear from you!
These shout outs will appear in Episode 53 of A Casual Stroll to Mordor Podcast.
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isanni posted this on September 3rd, 2010.
Categorized as Free to Play, General, LotRO store, Turbine Points, announcements, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter.
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A recent article on www.lotro.com provides a beginners’ overview of the new LOTRO store. See the original article, along with screenshots of the store, here. I provide a summary of the article below, with some of my own concerns and questions.
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New servers coming to a game near you…
isanni posted this on September 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as General, Servers, announcements, crickhollow, dwarrowdelf, head start, imladris, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, riddermark.
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Sapience of Turbine, in trademarked Incredisoon style, announced yesterday that Turbine will be opening four new servers for our gaming pleasure!
The servers will be named as follows:
- Riddermark
- Crickhollow
- Dwarrowdelf
- Imladris
These servers will be available on a first-come, first-”served” basis, starting September 8th for Head Start players, and September 10 for all others. (Check here to see if you are eligible for the earlier start date.) Sapience also noted that the forums for the new servers are up and running, in order to help the flocks of people organize themselves and their friends. For those of you with 67 alts who just NEED to have 9 new characters to love, head on over to the new servers, make some new friends, and bring our well-renowned LOTRO community spirit to some new players arriving soon, very soon, ultra soon, uber soon….. You get the idea! 
Happy gaming!
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Xyderias posted this on September 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as Inside MoB.
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OK, time for some fun! This is the first episode of a little self-parody video series I’ve been working on that gives you an “inside look” at the Mordor or Bust podcast. In this episode Fyurae talks about a recent Prancing Pony incident, then she regales us with rhymes! Xyderias dresses to impress, and later reveals that he has a crush on an Ales and Tales patron.
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Xyderias posted this on September 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as dev diary.
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Yet another new Developer Diary appeared today. Narrel delves into a subject it seems we either love or hate: LUA Scripting in LOTRO (aka addons). Oh yeah — they went there — in a big way it turns out! Learn some of the behind-the scenes activities and future addon plans after the break.
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Merric posted this on September 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as Dev Team, F2P, General, add-ons, dev diary, lua.
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Narrel writes today about how LUA scripting came about for LOTRO in the most recently released Dev Diary. He was hired as a game systems engineer for LOTRO in late 2007 and eventually “…became the ‘go-to guy’ for UI on my team.” Dissatisfied with the current UI he eventually started working with “ForsakenArcher” and “Agiclaw”, to of the internal tools engineers at Turbine, and they began discussing, planning and working on a prototype for the LUA system. To paraphrase, after internal testing, meetings, and with help from “Frosty” they were given the approval and the opportunity to introduce it with the Volume 3.2 testing.
So what does LUA do and what is it capable of? Well, quite a bit actually, but the implementation in LOTRO has actually been limited on purpose by Turbine.
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DocHoliday posted this on September 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as Free to Play, lotro, lua, volume 3.
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The long awaited diary on the new Lua Scripting has been posted with some very cool insight from Narrel on the process to get Lua scripting into the game. Even more exciting is the confirmation that Lua Scripting will be in the game at launch of F2P. Granted Narrel does put some caveats in there, but assuming all goes well it will be in launch.
I’m always fascinated about how these things progress and appreciate the insight on how the internals of Turbine work. This certainly sounds like an impressive effort from Narrel, ForsakenArcher, Agiclaw and Frosty with the support of the whole dev team I’m sure. It was also very encouraging to see the beta community step up and not only try things out but post some pretty darn cool UI scripts.
Read the rest of this entry »Skirmish: Ford Of Bruinen
Elahndria posted this on September 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as Lotro Instances.
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Today we make our way to The Ford Of Bruinen, The ford of the River Bruinen or Loudwater that lay at the entrance to the valley of Rivendell, said to be under the power of Elrond. The last bulwark leading into the hidden vale of Rivendell. Orcs in the service of Angmar lay siege at the Ford, seeking to break through the defences of Imladris.
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