Okeydokey, super late-night WoW stream. Wanna hear the whole tea on my Collector's Edition as it currently stands? C'mon in and buckle up, cupcakes. I have ice cream. www.twitch.tv/druidsfire

Stream's gonna be super late tonight if at all. A friend wants to game later, and I'll have to see how tired I am afterwards.

Another day, another lack of update on where my Midnight Collector's Edition is. FedEx still hasn't scanned it in, so s'far as I know, it fell off a pallet in Santa Fe Springs, California. *shrug* I will be ranting a bit about this tonight on-stream as I play Midnight thanks to a generous friend.

I once crashed the then-largest academic-only IBM mainframe in the world. Accidentally.

Neato. Rivendell housing maps and an improved Rivendell map are live in @officiallotro.bsky.social!

Ahahahahahaha, the farce continues. Blizzard Gear Store CS sent me ANOTHER survey... and didn't even bother sending me an email that said survey would theoretically have been about.

I love the smell of PAX East content creation invites in the morning. Who am I gonna see there, btw?

The DDO Ghost Worlds, DDO Store and transfer service will be unavailable on Wednesday, March 4th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) for maintenance. The 64-bit game worlds will remain available. We are expecting to conduct a downtime on Thursday for the 64-bit worlds to release 78.0.1. #DDO

The LOTRO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, March 4th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) to release Update 47. Find the release notes on LOTRO.com. Thank you for your patience, and we will see you back in the game soon! www.lotro.com/update-notes... #LOTRO

As expected, I got the refund on shipping costs for my missing Midnight Collector's Edition before I got any kind of update on where it is. At this point, what I don't understand is why they don't just ship a new copy and cancel the original entirely. Are they expecting me to buy a second copy?

Come hang out in chat as we Let the Dice Decide which character I play next! I'm also doing an Isle of Dread Ultimate Fan Bundle giveaway, courtesy of @ddounlimited.bsky.social - Good luck! twitch.tv/druidsfire

The next Legendary Items Reward Track debuts on Wednesday! Make sure to claim your rewards before the start of the next Reward Track. #LOTRO

Game dev friends, Standing Stone Games' @officiallotro.bsky.social is hiring an Associate Designer! Check out the details here: www.daybreakgames.com/careers?job=...

Make sure to claim your items from the 16th Legendary Items Reward Track before the next track arrives this Wednesday! #LOTRO

Let's get into some 20th anniversary shenanigans in @ddounlimited.bsky.social on www.twitch.tv/ddostream - Time will fly and the Orchard might get its rares plucked as we do some farming.

Get the Arcane Trickster for FREE for a limited time! Speak to the Giver of Gifts on Anniversary Island to acquire this new class archetype through March 31st. Get an overview of the class on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YELa9NJVvqI #DDO

For the daytime crew...

Oh, look, it's another cookie-cutter 'how was your RESOLUTION' survey from the @blizzardent.bsky.social Gear Store CS. No, they need to update their surveys to acknowledge shit isn't one and done, not send 'end of issue' surveys very time you interact with them. Still no CE. *shrug*

It's a good thing I decided to double-check if I'd logged in ALL of my level 80s to kickstart their rested XP for Midnight cos I missed one. Not an important one, but if I'd logged her in months down the line to start her journey to 90, I'd've been salty.

For newer players in @ddounlimited.bsky.social who were told by seasoned community members to choose the Quiver of Alacrity from the anniversary gift token exchange, I made a video explaining and showing how to upgrade it to add the Striding effect (+30% run speed). www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKmc...

@andrewlawart.bsky.social and I are thrilled to launch the next issue of SLAYHEMN, our epic fantasy comic! www.kickstarter.com/projects/and...

I get to break the sad news to Calenglad that 'dude, she's not into you' before asking him to fulfill his oath to Aragorn on the Angmar server in @officiallotro.bsky.social - Come hang out on twitch.tv/lotrostream :)

I generally try to be polite to customer service agents, but when they send you a survey to ask how their agent did and how happy I was with the resolution - and they haven't actually DONE anything yet, much less resolved the issue - well, they got a less polite answer. Didn't go full Karen, tho.

Come earn the new WoW Twitch drops as I play the early access of Midnight, thanks to @stargrace.bsky.social's kindness, and we head to Silvermoon to take on Xal'atath's forces. The fun starts on twitch.tv/druidsfire NOW!

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Friday, February 27th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) to release Update 78.0.1. Release notes will be available on Friday. Thank you for your patience and we will see you back in the game soon! #DDO

Rested XP is GO!

Had a sudden thought last night about which two chars to go into Midnight with first. What if, instead of my oldest alt and main Draenei pally for the Alliance, I send in my oldest night elf druid? Horde was always gonna be the belf pally going home. But... elves, sir!

Join Senior World Designer Scenario at Wednesday, March 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM (GMT-5) on Twitch.tv/LOTROstream for the third in the "Rivers of Middle-earth" series of streams. We'll continue from the last Casual Stroll with the second part of our exploration of the long and winding Anduin River! #LOTRO

Gonna take a nap on my lunch break today so I can be ready for Midnight early access. I'll be streaming, but not until 8, cos I'll want to make supper first and also log in all 38 of my level 80s beforehand to kickstart their rested XP. Hopefully the servers behave.

Officially got my three warbands' chars set up with the 121 (or better) catch-up gear in every slot, so all they need for a bit are trinkets. Did some housekeeping to get rid of older xpac quests and quest junk.

My last night in The War Within will focus on the last few pieces of catch-up gear my three warbands need (a neck, a wrist, and 9 rings [for mortal Men doomed to die?]), so my main four and my Alliance four and my Horde four will start off okay. Will spend the rest of my tokens on housing decor.

And when you set your hearthstones make sure you're facing the door to go outside!!!!!!

If you've got WoW Midnight early access tomorrow, don't forget to log in all of your max-level alts and park them in town so they can start accumulating rested XP.

Great limited-time anniversary bonuses until March 4th in @ddounlimited.bsky.social, some nice freebies useful for most players, and more details in www.ddo.com/guides/ddo-2...

Put in ticket about my missing CE, and Gear Store CS has already escalated it to a supervisor to see what they can find out and do to fix it.

Exclusive: Dungeons & Dragons Online Retrospective: Looking Back On 20 Years Of DDO www.mmorpg.com/features/exc... #DDO #MMO

Day 7 of my Midnight Collector's Edition having a shipping label but not having been scanned in by FedEx. The Gear Store says the order is 'Fulfilled', so what is my recourse here to get what I paid for? @support.blizzard.com? Only reason I get to play tomorrow is cos a friend was very kind.

When you're being carried through Mythic Manaforge Omega and you notice that one of the raid's healers is AutomaticJak, you know it's gonna be okay. I also won the roll for the hearthstone! Thanks to Incarnate for the run, and thanks to @halyonix.bsky.social for the lead. It was a worthy splurge. :)

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, February 25th from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) to release Update 78: Natural 20. Find the release notes on DDO.com: https://www.ddo.com/update-notes/ddo-update-78-release-notes #DDO

The US-based LOTRO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, February 25th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) for weekly maintenance. Thank you for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon! #LOTRO

I'm sure there's some sort of licensing reason why it is the way it is, but I find it vexing that the USS Protostar isn't in the Star Trek 60th branding thingy that's airing before eps of Starfleet Academy. Prodigy was SO GOOD and it's sad to see it not being celebrated with all the other shows.

Day 6 of my Midnight Collector's Edition being in that limbo between 'we have created a shipping label' and 'we have your package'. Others had theirs picked up 24 hours or less from when the label was created and have already been delivered. Bless @stargrace.bsky.social and her insane generosity.

No, I will not bother watching the SotU tonight. I have better things to do, like get the Mythic mount from Dimensius (thanks to a carry scheduled then). And even if I didn't have that mount to get, I'd still have way better things to do. Don't anyone feel like you have to watch either.

Time for another session of Let the Dice Decide in @ddounlimited.bsky.social on twitch.tv/druidsfire - there'll be my last two DDO point giveaways for this month tonight too! C'mon in and see who the dice have me playing tonight!

Bullroarer is open again for U47 beta 3 in @officiallotro.bsky.social. New LI reward track preview for the 25/50/75/100 milestones:

The European servers of Grond, Meriadoc, Mordor, and Orcrist will be unavailable due to maintenance on Tuesday, February 24th from 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Eastern (-5 GMT). This is necessary European data center maintenance, and we will have our regular maintenance on Wednesday as well. #LOTRO

HOLY CANNOLI. Last day for the festival, and the Spring Butterfly drops! :D

Hey, fellow CE owners... what was the delay between when you got the 'your shipment is on the way' email and delivery? I keep checking my tracking number and it's been sitting at 'we'll update with a delivery date as soon as we get your package' since overnight Wednesday into Thursday.

Time for some more Chill of Ravenloft shenanigans in @ddounlimited.bsky.social on twitch.tv/ddostream - there'll be a couple of DDO points giveaways too! Come hang out and see what happens next!

Maybe we should stop saying we're waiting for a certain pair of bubbles to pop (political and tech). Bubbles are light and airy and when they pop, it's fun, but they're ephemeral. Call these what they are: ZITS, cos when they pop, we need to clean out every speck of pus and prevent re-infection.