The next chapter called: LOTRO

For the Lord of the Rings, MMORPG (massive multiplayer online role playing game), my first character I am going to have to choose my bread and butter, sneak class.  I will be choosing a Hobbit as my race and burglar as my class.

The main reason I choose the hobbit as burglar class is because of the sneak-like traits hobbits have. I googled. “How to create a character on LOTRO,” and eventually ended up on, create a character LOTRO website.  Hobbits receive the following benefits: Improved fear resistance, improved vitality, improved morale regeneration outside of combat, and improved shadow mitigation. The last improvement called, Improved Shadow Mitigation is the biggie for why I choose a hobbit as a race. The shadow mitigation improves the resistance to shadow damage. The shadows is where I am mainly going to be running around so having a resistance to shadow damage will play an integral role in how I use my character. The only downside to having a hobbit as a race is its weakness: reduced might. The reduced might weakens my hobbits ability to block incoming attacks and also the ability to cause greater amount of damage with my weapons. I feel this won’t be too big of a problem because having a stealthy character I will be able to get the first attack off all the time.

Creating a character on LOTRO

      Richard A. Bartle wrote an article called, “HEARTS, CLUBS, DIAMONDS, SPADES: PLAYERS WHO SUIT MUDS,” where he describes the different characters that often show up in MUDs. He puts each player into four different groups, achievers, killers, explorers, and socializers. Looking at my character and what I want to do with him I would definitely put my hobbit into the achiever category. Reading Bartle’s description of achievers is what I thought best fit my attitude towards videogames, “The point of playing is to master the game, and make it do what you want it to do; there's nothing intrinsically worthwhile in rooting out irrelevant details that will never be of use, or in idling away your life with gossip.” This quote epitomizes what I want to do when I play videogames. I want to master the game and make it do what I want to do. To me socializing is boring and is a waste of my time. Killing on the other hand is fun but if I’m not getting anywhere in the game then why am I doing it. Lastly, being an explorer just comes with doing the quests. I do not need to know extra places on the map; all I need is a marker that shows me the points on the map to level up.

I have played one other RPG in my life and it was a game called, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. In Oblivion I had a character named, Shakur who was sneaky and had the ability to steal about anything. I just feel right at home when I can cruise around a map without having to fight anything so I can get the missions done. An additional reason why I always choose stealth classes is because of the ability it seems to be faster at not only dealing blows but running across a map. With an increased speed trait I can get to points on the maps faster which allow me to level up faster as well.  I feel my characters that I make on RPG always seem to emulate a little bit of who I am. I always wanted to be that secret agent who athletically could do anything in terms of combat. These traits show in my characters because most of them are fast and stealt