is so obvi­ous that you fail to see it. I had that prob­lem with my gob­lin Cleeyah. She never really clicked for me as a char­ac­ter even though she had one of the most elab­or­ate character-concepts I ever cre­ated. I was never able to put my fin­ger on what was wrong and that irked me because I just knew that role­play­ing with her would become so much bet­ter if I could just resolve that little bit that was wrong. Not that I lacked for role­play with Cleeyah. I just knew it could be much better.

Last week­end a new face in my little posse of WoW role­play­ing bud­dies whispered me: “You know, Cleeyah should really be a troll. Everything about her screams troll.”

I think I sat there for at least a minute and was dumb­foun­ded. Because he was abso­lutely right. I cre­ated Cleeyah shortly after Cata­clysm came out, and some­how felt com­pelled to roll a gob­lin. Even though I really don’t like gob­lins that much. They are quirky and funny as NPCs, and I really enjoy the gob­lin char­ac­ters a few of my rp bud­dies cre­ated. But I am not a fan.

I really should have figured that one out on my own. *sigh*

So, to make things short: Good­bye, Cleeyah Goldeneyes. Wel­come, Cleeyah of the Dark­spear. You have no idea how good it feels when all of a sud­den everything that irked you about a char­ac­ter falls into place.

I can­not be the only one who has a little list of songs that just fit their char­ac­ters. Maybe not for all char­ac­ters, but the mains sure got their track lists. For once, it helps me get a feel for the char­ac­ter in a way that just writ­ing about her can­not accomplish.

For example, for me, these five songs express what kind of per­son my main Fereshtar is:

• Epica: Sancta Terra ( you­tube )
• Tina Turner: Goldeneye ( you­tube )
• Two Steps from Hell: Gothic Cow­boy ( you­tube )
• Two Steps from Hell: Run N’Gun ( you­tube )
• Kam­elot: Noth­ing ever dies ( you­tube )

So, what is your main’s playlist?

The Old Republic

Guess what I just pre-ordered? Muahahahaha!

After real­ising that I am pretty much burned out on WoW (yes, I finally unin­stalled the game) after I used up the gif­ted week of free game-time, and after learn­ing that the release date for Star Wars — The Old Repub­lic is the 22. of Decem­ber, I thought: WHY NOT?! The money is already squir­relled away on my credit-card account, so that is one head­ache avoided.

Add to that the fact that the first time in years I will not have to work dur­ing thelast week of the year and you get a very, very excited little Cleeyah pos­it­ively boun­cing off the walls at the moment. Now, I just have to gently break it to my fam­ily that I will not spend a lot of time with them over X-Mas…

For this blog, this means that the prob­ab­il­ity of new role­play­ing art­icles is cur­rently very high. I even con­sider con­tinu­ing the 20 Days of… series of art­icles — just with TOR instead of WoW.

I am play­ing throug KOTOR at the moment (a very cheap grab from Steam) and have a lot of fun. A little bit unex­pec­ted since I have always been a bit more of a Startrek girl than a Star Wars fan, but meh.

So which side will I be tak­ing? Jedi? Sith? Aaahh, decisions! I am so bad at those! (Insert oblig­at­ory Come to the Dark Side — We have cook­ies joke here…)And what kind of char­ac­ter will I cre­ate? Seems as if I have my char­ac­ter cre­ation work cut out for me.

Hmmm, to PTR or to not PTR… isn’t always an easy ques­tion for me. On the one hand I don’t want to get spoiled for new lore devel­op­ment. On the other hand I have to have a peek in advance in order to gauge the pos­sible reac­tion of one of my char­ac­ters to such new lore developments.

It is often a gut decision, and in hind­sight I often come to the con­clu­sion that the visit to the PTR wasn’t as neces­sary as I have ima­gined it to be.

So, dear read­ers (at least I hope I already have read­ers ) how do you tackle this decision?