Yeah, you heard me. This october, Instance and Frogpants hosts such as Scott Johnson, Mark Turpin, Dills McDilly Dills, Tom Merritt, Veronica Belmont (once we ask her), Brian Ibbott, and many more will host a online streaming event to end all streaming events! “BLIZZGONE 2012“!

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What this means is literally our attempt to make up for the loss of this year’s Blizzcon, with our own big opening cerimonies, our own big announcements, streamed raids, Starcraft 2 matches, live interviews, and MORE!

What will this cost you? NOTHING, that’s how much. We will be doing a charity drive throughout, so willing individuals can help give to a great cause, but the proceedings will be totally free, and totally not endorsed by Blizzard! (Unless they want to.)

We have some time, but we wanted to get the bug in your ear. (A big bug…like a Zerg Overlord sized bug even.) Details to come! Join us in October for BLIZZGONE, 2012!

Now streaming, and still featuring the three of us. Great film, give it a spin!

Great news for Instance fans, who also want their ToR fix. A brand new show is launching this week on the network, in the form of The Instance: Old Republic Edition, with episode one being available this thursday night! (Think of it as a sister show to what you are already used to with The Instance Prime.)

Hosted by myself, Dills, and a rotating 3rd guest chair! Which, schedules permitting, will often be Turpster even. Very excited about a new show, dedicated to Star Wars: The Old Republic, which hits shelves on 12-20-2011.

Also, a dedicated Twitter Account up as well: @torshow You can email your questions, comments and suggestions to instancetor@gmail.com.

What does this mean for The Instance Prime? Not a thing. No changes at all…if all you care about is WoW, The Instance will continue doing what it does, and doing it well.

Here’s the site link for the new show!

Created by listener, Hornburger (lvl 1 Tauren Paladin – Earthen Ring)

Good news! We’ve been promising these for a while. Two iPhone 4 cases are up on the store, featuring Obey Henry, and Steve The Duck! (Android coming soon.) Check em out!

Our long national nighmare is over! Tickets are now available for Nerdtacular 2011! Get in early, as quantities are limited! Get all the details on that link, and let the fun begin!

We are VERY excited to see all of you this year. June is coming fast!

In two days, yours truly will level up once again, hitting the ripe age of forty-one. While contemplating my own age over the past week, I got to also thinking about the ages of all the MMORPG characters I roleplay. There are tons of races to roleplay across my whole roleplaying collective, and to think of all their life spans matching that of the human race seems folly to me. So, let us take a closer look at the life spans of the WoW races, and better position your own characters in their in game timeline.

Thankfully, we don’t have to go very far to find a respectable chart of life spans for WoW. When WoW fails to provide a wealth of info regarding a specific topic, as in this case, then it’s time to turn to the WoW RPG. Continue reading →

Just about every time I peruse an RP-focused forum, I see at least one post from someone new to MMORPG roleplaying, asking for advice on how to get started. Since it’s such a basic and fundamental question, I like to revisit it every now and then, trying to look at it from new angles, and maybe discovering something I’ve not thought of.

That’s the case with this week’s edition of RoleCraft. Once again, thanks to Dungeons & Dragons (and my players!) for helping me to see this question in a new light, at least for me. This has lead me to how roleplayers may start their RP characters in a very simple way: by roleplaying their roles. Continue reading →