{"id":10204,"date":"2010-12-17T07:55:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T12:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10204"},"modified":"2010-12-17T07:55:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T12:55:15","slug":"shamus-plays-wow-part-8-lazy-star-crossed-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10204","title":{"rendered":"Shamus Plays WoW, Part 8: Lazy, Star-Crossed Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/shamusplays\/8435-Shamus-Plays-Lazy-Star-Crossed-Lovers\">The latest installment is up<\/a>, but I forgot to link it on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>This series is an interesting experiment. I joke about it being &#8220;fanfiction&#8221;, but I think it&#8217;s actually true.  This really is fanfiction, even more so than my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/shamusplays\/6993-Shamus-Plays-LOTRO-Part-1\">Lord of the Rings Online<\/a> or my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/shamusplays\/7837-Shamus-Plays-Champions-Online-Part-1\">Champions Online<\/a> series. In those other stories, I stuck pretty close to the game. I made up dialog, but that&#8217;s about it.  The rest of it was simply a transcription of the in-game activity.  (Which speaks poorly of the writers, I guess.)  But here I&#8217;m making up characters, backstories, and even doing a bit or world-building in imagining the how the demonic realms operate. I was pretty nervous when I set out in this direction, and very worried that I might get picked apart by WoW lore fans, but so far everyone seems happy. <\/p>\n<p>Having played around on the Horde side, I think both the Blood Elves and the Undead would make for great Let&#8217;s Play series. The next time I&#8217;m having trouble finding an MMO for Shamus Plays, I might come back to WoW. <\/p>\n<p>Interesting news: DC Universe Online is sounding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/editorials\/reviews\/previews\/8443-Preview-DC-Universe-Online\">very, very promising<\/a>. I&#8217;m considering that for my next series. It launches in February, although I don&#8217;t know if we&#8217;ll be done with WoW before then. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest installment is up, but I forgot to link it on Wednesday. This series is an interesting experiment. I joke about it being &#8220;fanfiction&#8221;, but I think it&#8217;s actually true. This really is fanfiction, even more so than my Lord of the Rings Online or my Champions Online series. In those other stories, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}