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All the World’s a Stage: Heroism and roleplay originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

All the World’s a Stage: Heroism and roleplay – Joystiq

Posted on June 26, 2011 by admin

All the World's a Stage: Heroism and roleplay
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. In World of Warcraft, that player is you! Each week, Anne Stickney brings you All the World's a Stage with helpful hints, tips and tricks on the …

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All the World’s a Stage: Trolls and timelines in roleplay

Posted on June 13, 2011 by admin

Short-lived — it’s the best way to describe the life of a troll in Warcraft. Despite being arguably the most prolific race in Azeroth’s history, the trolls of Azeroth don’t tend to live particularly long or fruitful lives. This is largely due to the fact that most troll tribes spend their time warring and fighting amongst themselves, or with those that dare encroach upon their lands. Yet despite the short-lived nature of the average Azerothian troll, troll history stretches back farther than any other race on Azeroth.

Like the tauren, the trolls of Azeroth were one of the original races — not of Titan origin, simply present on Azeroth since the dawn of life on the little planet. Troll society is an amazingly complex jumble of lore, loa, ancestral rites and dubious practices like voodoo and cannibalism. Fortunately, the playable race of troll in Warcraft is limited to one tribe; the jungle trolls of the Darkspear. Though the known tribal history of the Darkspear is relatively short, recent events give troll roleplayers much to work with.

All the World’s a Stage: Trolls and timelines in roleplay originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

All the World’s a Stage: Trolls and timelines in roleplay – Joystiq

Posted on June 13, 2011 by admin

All the World's a Stage: Trolls and timelines in roleplay
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. In World of Warcraft, that player is you! Each week, Anne Stickney brings you All the World's a Stage with helpful hints, tips and tricks on the …

All the World’s a Stage: Tauren and timelines in roleplay – Joystiq

Posted on June 6, 2011 by admin

All the World's a Stage: Tauren and timelines in roleplay
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. In World of Warcraft, that player is you! Each week, Anne Stickney brings you All the World's a Stage with helpful hints, tips and tricks on the …

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All the World’s a Stage: Tauren and timelines in roleplay

Posted on June 6, 2011 by admin

Last week, we discussed the timelines of gnomes and dwarves, two races that recently discovered their roots. Though the dwarves and gnomes were originally Titan creations, today we’re going to talk about a race that has simply been here since the beginning — the tauren. Much like the night elves, the tauren have a gigantic chunk of history that is simply … missing, though the tauren have more of an explanation for that absence of information than their night elf counterparts.

For tauren roleplayers, however, the past isn’t really an issue so much as current events — and the tauren race has a lot to think about. The tauren have often been thought of as the “nicest” of the Horde races, peaceful and generally kind to all. That’s what makes what happens to the tauren race in Cataclysm twice as bitter — their people turned on, their leader killed in cold blood, and their home under siege. Despite all this, the tauren remain staunch allies of the Horde, willing to lay down their lives for honor.

All the World’s a Stage: Tauren and timelines in roleplay originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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All the World’s a Stage: Dwarf and gnome timelines in roleplay

Posted on May 29, 2011 by admin

Continuing on with our series on life spans, timelines, and how the different races of Azeroth relate to the timeline from a historical standpoint, today, we’re going to look at two Alliance races with roughly the same life span: gnomes and dwarves. However, unlike every other race on Azeroth, these two races share a unique history that was only recently discovered. Even though most Azerothians don’t really consider where their race may have originally come from, the dwarves and the gnomes know, unequivocally, where their races started — and the discovery was a shock for both races involved.

Unlike their human allies, the dwarves and gnomes have been around just as long, if not longer, than their night elf allies. While life spans guarantee that there isn’t a member of this race who remembers the thousands of years between their original creation and today, recent events have uncovered the truth behind that history and given the gnomes and the dwarves a unique outlook into just where they’ve come from.

All the World’s a Stage: Dwarf and gnome timelines in roleplay originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 29 May 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on May 29, 2011 by admin

All the World's a Stage: Dwarf and gnome timelines in roleplay
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. In World of Warcraft, that player is you! Each week, Anne Stickney brings you All the World's a Stage with helpful hints, tips and tricks on the …

All the World’s a Stage: Draenei and timelines in roleplay – Joystiq

Posted on May 22, 2011 by admin

All the World's a Stage: Draenei and timelines in roleplay
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. In World of Warcraft, that player is you! Each week, Anne Stickney brings you All the World's a Stage with helpful hints, tips and tricks on the …

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All the World’s a Stage: Draenei and timelines in roleplay

Posted on May 22, 2011 by admin

Sometimes it’s easier to work with certain races as far as timelines go, and sometimes it gets very, very tricky. Today’s subject is one of the trickiest. The draenei date back to the vanilla days of World of Warcraft — but the draenei of Azeroth as we knew it then were most decidedly not the draenei we know in Azeroth today. While we mistakenly assumed the draenei always appeared as they do in the Swamp of Sorrows — misshapen, deformed, and a bit ugly — the draenei of the Swamp of Sorrows are actually mutated versions of the original race.

None of this was revealed until the announcement that draenei would be the playable Alliance race in The Burning Crusade. Once the draenei were announced, a flurry of speculation as to the race’s origins and radical change in appearance appeared, as well as one of the most notorious lore snafus in Warcraft‘s history. If the draenei seem out of place on Azeroth, it’s because they absolutely are — they aren’t even native to the planet Draenor from which their flight and subsequent crash landing on Azeroth originated. You think elves are old? Take a gander at the draenei lifetime, and prepare to be overloaded with potential for more roleplay material than you can shake a face tendril at.

All the World’s a Stage: Draenei and timelines in roleplay originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 22 May 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.