Hearthstone Tavern

Hearthstone Tavern #5

August 13th, 2009 | {5} | Podcasts

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This week’s topic is VILLAINS! The cast discusses what a villain is, the various categories of villains, and how to write, plan, and/or role play a villain. We follow up the discussion with cast members identifying Villains We Love to Hate in the World of Warcraft.

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Hearthstone Tavern #4

July 19th, 2009 | {11} | Podcasts

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On this week’s episode we have part one of a special guest segment with Kelly Aarons and Kissless of World of Warcraft, Eh? (woweh.com) online comic. Illidarian of Epic Dolls joins us for the interview and we talk about everything from art to role playing on a PVP server.

We continue the show with a round table discussion about Christie Golden’s book Rise of the Horde, and follow up with regular segments from the cast. Matt presents Lore Library, Mox presents another Character Development about role-playing with antagonists, and Michael presents The Little Things which involves using professions to enrich your character.

This Episode is long and full of great stuff in this episode, so kick back, grab your mug, and enjoy the show.

Available from Podbean: http://hearthstonetavern.podbean.com/
Also available on iTunes.
- Podcast Time: Approximately 60 minutes

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Hearthstone Tavern #3

July 3rd, 2009 | {5} | Podcasts

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Episode 3: The Written Word II

On Episode 003 of Hearthstone Tavern, the cast continues with a brief discussion about Blizzard’s Warcraft Manga. The cast finishes a RP Round-Table about MMORPG role play addons and how to write a character description.

This week we also have some special segments: RP Made Simple with Brent, Ria’s Corner for The Well-Dressed RPer, and Ordinary Heroes of Azeroth with Jan/Jaero.

Hearthstone Tavern is a Role Play Podcast! Highlighting the RP in MMORPG.

Available from Podbean: http://hearthstonetavern.podbean.com/
Also available on iTunes.
- Podcast Time: Approximately 42 minutes

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Mug O’Lich

July 2nd, 2009 | {2} | Related Articles

While working to finish episode 003 and 004 of our Hearthstone Tavern Role-Play podcast, I saw that World of Warcraft is offering steins! Recently, Blizzard also provided a real sword crafted as Frostmourne to the winner of the Global Creative Writing Contest.

This interesting trend to include items you might find at a Ren Faire intrigues me. Is Blizzard finally discovering that their long term community is the AD&D-RP-Ren Faire people?

It is a small attempt that Blizzard is finally including more than books, shirts, and cards in their online store. However, if we had it our way this is what we would like to see in the Blizzard store.

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