Worst Player Name of the Week

This week’s Worst Player Name from Lord of the Rings Online: Leetgolas. (Elf hunter, of course.)

I’m not a stickler for role-playey character names — I know it’s tough to come up with suitable names for a small nation of virtual people, especially when some JACKASS POSER steals your name on Day 1 of Open Beta and then SITS on the name, not even allowing it the pleasure of seeing the world — but, I will insist that SOME effort goes into name creation other than “what -golas name can I get past the filter?”

Seeing Double

Seeing Double (slice)

There’s a mini-patch today in Lord of the Rings Online, which is good, cuz there was some NPC mischief going on — witness Athal_01 and Athal_02.

Or this unnerving sight, a gathering of deer outside the walls of Ost Guruth. If there was a deer faction in LOTRO, I’d be so dead right now.

A gathering of deer

Downtime expected until 1pm EDT; official patch notes are here. Full text after the jump.

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