One of the things I’ve really enjoyed doing in LAWL RP is drawing the backgrounds, something I never really anticipated happening. So I’m doing a lot of them in this new project and saving them for re-use as a way of making the process quicker.
This is one of the first locations we’ll see next week…
Oh god there’s only a week to go.
This is probably one of the classic, “you had to be there” moments in life but I just couldn’t resist turning it into a comic. And the thing is, it never really happened. Like a lot of the origial LAWL RPs from my days in WAR it was inspired mainly by OOC theorizing about ‘what if’ situations and the hilarity that would occur.
But I totally could see this happening one day so I need to find a pair of those sunglasses for my girl. HAWT.
Forget the Sugar Plums, lately the only visions dancing in my head have had a direct relationship with the Aion Visions Trailer that was released about two weeks ago. Yeah, I know I’m a little bit late in writing on this particular topic, but such is the way of things around here. As expected everyone from Thulf over at the Impetusium Blog to the crew of the Unofficial Aion Podcast have covered what was in the Vision Trailer. There’s still a lot of speculation on how the things shown in the trailer will get into the game, although the dev team have continually said that it’s a vision of Aion’s overall future and not a specific expansion.
What has me most interested is how the changes and additions we see in the Vision Trailer will effect the community and environment for roleplaying in Aion. There’s no argument that it will have an effect on how the RP community in Aion functions, every other game with expanded content has run into this issue. Look at the way the Horde side RP communities shifted to Silvermoon on the release of Burning Crusade. Or how the inclusion of new races in EQ and EQ2 meant an influx of characters. I could go on, but I think MMORPG veterans get the picture.
This is something that I know I’ve heard people asking in game. Why DO some of those Spriggs have wings? Does it have anything to do with the Sprigg, Spriggan, Spriggle thing? Do Kerubs have the same issues later on? And finally, what the hell ARE those things out in the middle of Reshanta?
Mysteries of our age.
Oh Warhammer.
No other game has inspired the love/hate relationship that Warhammer did for me. I had unquestionably the best experience I’ve ever had in an MMO while playing this game, and at the same time I had some of the most frustrating and generally upsetting times there too. And while it’d be easy to say that all of my frustration was in response to game mechanics and such, that’d be unfair. Roleplay certainly played its part. Or to put it more accurately, my crazy fanaticism for lore made some things difficult to appreciate as time wore on.
Warhammer was a game that I first really started following after a couple people pointed out the extensive nature of its lore. Twenty-five years of lore as preached by player and producer alike. My mind boggled at it at first and I delved into what the web had to offer me. There were a few wiki style sites out there that offered what I thought was a rather detailed collection of articles on various aspects of the Warhammer world. Oh how wrong I was.
I heard about the free transfers being offered to people on the last remaining RP server in WAR last week. Phoenix Throne was my adopted home and where all of my Order characters are currently sitting, so the news struck me a little more than did various other server closures in Warhammer. And it made me a little nostolgic, which explains why you’re getting a Warhammer themed week over here at LAWL RP!
I honestly forgot how much I enjoyed drawing some of these characters, and the opportunity to do them in color was great. Though I did have way too much fun drawing the daemonettes.
In any case. There will be another blog entry this Thursday! I’ll be changing the header to reflect the new update schedule but I’m going to make an attempt to blog about RP and such every Thursday in December.
