User:Stardancer

 Stardancer's Player

Admittedly, it's my brother’s fault that I got caught up with MMOs. Haha. He was a dungeon master when we played AD&D in college and I soon discovered that this type of game was immensely stimulating and creative for me. While most of our gaming friends worked on their stats and rules, I spent most of my time drawing characters, painting figurines, and writing. Soon afterwards, everyone graduated and went away into their lives. So, I participated in text-based (chatroom) type online RPing, and sadly discovered that I was not a strong writer or role player --and that I was often misunderstood. I marvelled at the players who could express their ideas and characters with such beauty and seemingly little effort. While I may never be an expert writer, I enjoy using whatever artistic means available to me to communicate my thoughts or ideas --whether creating art, music, poetry, or other. The age of the graphic MMOs drove most of those players onward, and so I tried Everquest, CoH, and finally gave up. One of my friends was in the BETA for WoW which eventually got me involved when the open BETA was available. Originally, I wasn't a fan of the stylized Blizzard graphics. However, after taking a flight to Darkshore and seeing how incredible flying was and how indepth the quests and story arcs were, I was hooked. I tried playing on Silverhand and eventually ended up on Earthen Ring with a few residual friends from EQ. WoW has turned out to be an amazing place! It is open for exploration and discovery, and there are places inside and outside cities that players can sit or group together to talk, build a campfire, or fish... My first love in MMORPGs has to be exploring the world with my character(s). The world is immense and I adore Blizzard for purposefully including secluded spots for the players who love discovery. My Role-Play experience within WoW has been marginal, probably because I am not that good or maybe because my characters tend to be explorers and are generally out and about. However, I feel strongly about having a RP server and community and I have gone on to support this in a variety of ways. It was my love of exploration that drove me to write into the Epic Dolls podcast to share some places I discovered. Since January (2008), I have been a regular segment producer and writer for the show -- "Off the Beaten Path: Sightseeing Guides, Unusual and Interesting Quests, and a Few Role Play Tips too." It is a variety informational WoW Podcast and one of the most interesting one available. Epic Dolls was open to including aspects that support the RP community such as my segment and Illidarian's lore segment. I am truly thankful to Epic Dolls. I am also grateful for real life friends that I have met along the way such as Tharion_Greyseer, Sullivan, Kynas, Larisan_Tenari, Leala, Laurano, and many more. I am also thankful that Lillithia and Tai enjoyed some of my writing here at the ER Wiki and that my characters Stardancer and Voletta have garnered awards. Writing doesn't come easily to me, and I have to work really hard to express an idea when putting it into writing. Thank you. Larisan_Tenari is a tremendously talented writer and has taken the opportunity to write audio plays for characters. He came up with a wacky idea of writing a WoW serial audio drama for podcasts called, "The Robinsuuns" (sort of the "Lost in Space" Robinsons only with Draenei) --about the adventures of a family who landed on Azeroth and their perils and travels. Larisan contacted me about doing the audio engineering, recording, and production for the show and I leapt at the opportunity to particpate. It takes a great deal of time to produce a 5 minute segment, but I absolutely love it! Sincere thanks go to some notable RPers who have lent me their voice talents in many episodes and to Epic Dolls for hosting the drama series. I am originally from Texas, and extremely proud of it. Though I am currently living on the West Coast, in my heart I will always be a Texan. I have two college degrees and I have been a music teacher and a professional recording artist. I currently have two albums out, do musical and spoken spots for podcasts, and have composed and performed a theme song for SciFi Surplus. I believe that artistic ability and intelligence are genderless and ageless, and that you can be a driving force for your own life and dreams. You can contact me here: [mailto:stardancerelf@gmail.com stardancerelf@gmail.com]

= Links =
 * Xielie_Spiritwillow_Stardancer - My Character Stardancer on ER Wiki
 * http://epicdolls.com/ - Epic Dolls Podcast
 * http://www.stardancerelf.blogspot.com/ - Stardancer's "Off the Beaten Path" Sightseeing Guides
 * http://robinsuuns.blogspot.com/ - The Robinsuuns Audio Drama
 * http://rpmadesimple.org/ - Sullivan's "RP Made Simple"
 * http://scifisurplus.com/ - SciFi Surplus