Welcome back, roleplayers! Today’s edition of RoleCraft will aim to draw your attention to a few good items I found while reading through the World’s End Tavern section of the official World of Warcraft forums.

Yes, I know, it’s a place to be entered at your own risk, for sure. Yet, on occasion, there are some good and above quality posts that may be found there. The posts I have here are some I think may be quite useful for roleplayers they are trying to connect with, and I want to help with that connection.
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Greetings, roleplayers! This edition of RoleCraft is going to try something new, by way of hosting a short lore quiz.

Roleplayers know that knowing lore is tantamount to being a quality MMORPG roleplayer. Here I have gathered a short list of ten questions regarding the lore of the upcoming Cataclysm to test your knowledge with. If you find answering these questions easy for you, then consider yourself prepared. If there is some difficulty in answering, then hopefully you’ll brush up on your WoW lore before the next expansion.

Let’s get started!
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This week, RoleCraft adds another short article to the Languages of RP theme, this time dealing with Goblin speech in WoW.

From what little I’ve been able to discover, it seems clear that goblins will have three languages available when Cataclysm launches: Common, Orcish, and Goblin. Common and Orcish are a given, since goblins have heretofore had such a strong presence in both Alliance and Horde areas.

However, what I’ve not yet been able to find is anything that really describes their native language. Nothing has been written by Blizzard as far as I have found, nor has anything been detailed by Cataclysm beta testers. So, probably until the next expansion is released, the topic is pretty much a mystery.
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RoleCraft this week will again take a look at the worgen in the light of roleplaying, sort of a follow up to the Roleplaying for Worgen article from a couple weeks ago.

Worgen RP, in some ways, is related to druid RP, in respects that both are shape-shifters. The one unique difference that sets them apart is the knowledge that druids know they have the ability to shape-shift, while I believe it will be absolutely possible to roleplay a worgen who has no idea that they can, too.

Let’s look at it from the view of there being three parts to roleplaying a worgen: their human form, the moment of transformation, and their beast form.
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Illustrated by Scott, this print features your two favorite hosts riding atop their very own mammoth, spreading the good podcasting word far and wide, in what looks to be Duratar. (Gotta get those low levelers while they’re still young, right?)

It comes in either a 12×18 inch or 20×30 inch high quality print, signed by the artist, and shipped anywhere in the world. To order yours, click HERE!

Well, for you iPhone / iPod users anyway. (Working on a plan for Android as well) But if you are an iOS user, then BOOM! We have an app for you. Huge thanks goes to Nicole Spag for all her help in getting this out for us. It includes news feeds from the site, episodes you can play right in the app, twitter feeds, forum sections, and MUCH more. Great way to take The Instance with you.

Head on over to iTunes and grab the app! It’s free!

Since moving RoleCraft over here from the WarCry Network, the column has picked up quite a few new readers. The fact is, it’s no small amount of work to keep an online column going for three years, as RoleCraft has, and I thank all my fellow roleplayers for their continued interest!

Sadly, looking in on other WoW RP-focused websites, I see that many of my favorites are no longer around. With the Cataclysm just over the horizon, and for the sake of both old and new readers here, I’ll link to some of the best websites that still live. These are the ones I feel are worthy of weekly and daily viewing, depending on your own degree of roleplaying.
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You can get a high quality look here as well.

My current favored race to roleplay is the Undead, with the elves coming in a close second. However, I have a distinct feeling they might both be knocked down a notch when I get into the worgen. Of all the races so far, the opportunity to create and get into a worgen’s mind has me more enthralled than I’ve ever been when compared to roleplaying the other WoW races. If you’re feeling the same way, or if not, please read on while I share some worgen RP concepts I have prowling around in my head.
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Have you heard about these? No? Well let Blizzard do the talking!

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm looms on the horizon, and with it come unimaginable calamities that will shatter the very surface of Azeroth. To prove that it’s not all doom and gloom, we’re proud to announce a couple of contests that are sure to brighten things up. If video is your weapon of choice or you’re a talented machinima artist, then our Cataclysm YouTube Video Contest might be your path to glory. If those newfangled moving pictures aren’t your thing, you can still dazzle, inform, and amuse by entering a memorable image in the Cataclysm Print Ad Contest. Good luck!

They are really excited to see what people come up with, and if I know The Instance listeners, I know one thing for sure: You guys LOVE contests! Head over to the official link here! The Youtube Video Contest. The Cataclysm Print Ad Contest.