World of Warcraft Community Magazine Issue 7 | Page 59

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creative writing side. What Tarc
has shown me a lot of, that there
is so much to that. Not just
getting online and role playing,
but the creative writing aspect
is something that I think is so
fascinating and really plays such
an important role in role playing.
Woot: Yes, I have a history with
pen and paper role playing games
way, way, way back. 1st and 2nd
edition Dungeons and Dragons era
all the way through to Cyberpunk
2020. It’s been a number of
years since I did anything like
that. There’s a city here in the
UK called Sheffield, and Games
Workshops store there used to
run role play nights and I ran
their Advanced HeroQuest games
for a couple of weeks because
everyone got bored with it because
it wasn’t a terribly good game.
of vanilla and in the beginning

always going to be a reputation for

Turwinkle: Well that’s

of the Burning Crusade and

particular servers and particular

wonderful, yes I come from

was so excited to be able to

locations that we don’t need to

tabletop gaming, Twilight 2000,

role play within WoW and have

drag over again. Is there anything

Dungeons and Dragons, Paranoia

had a wonderful role playing

that in some way you feel it’s your

Star Wars role play and I had a

experience within the game.

responsibility to in some way turn
this around by having this podcast

group that would get together
Woot: One thing about role

and showing… I don’t want to use

running D&D campaign and really

play in WoW is it does tend to

the word “normal” in this context

didn’t know that there was role

have a bit of a jokey reputation

because let’s face it, we’re gamers,

play in WoW really until the end

among some people. There’s

we’re not normal, but sort of

on a weekly basis and had a long

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