Thee Olde Guarde

Contact Gideonhawke in game to learn how to join!!

The Olde Guarde is forming up! A private band of brothers and sisters dedicated to the support of all peoples of the alliance as well as each other.

It is our mission to help the good citzens of Azeroth. We will come to the aid of all in need and defeat all evils whenever possible.

Our motto: "Vallo Insons insontis Smite Malum" ,loosely translated, means: "Defend the Innocent and Smite all Evil."

((this is a "lite role-playing WoW Guild on the Thorium Brotherhood RP Realm (US). The Guild is limited to members of the age of 25+ in RL (come on now 99% of the game is for the kids, let us have one place where other players will recognise a funny brady bunch references and such). A Lite Role-play flavor is preferred whenever possible (come on now it is not that hard).))

((Finally, the most important requirement of Members of the Guarde will be that they make every effort, no matter what, to have fun.))

Thee Olde Guarde Forum

What is expected of Members

Our Home on RPGOutfitter

Gideon's Sactuary

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First, this page is in part thanks to the wonderful rounder3 template created by Douglas Bowman at stopdesign.

Second, this page is in part thanks to the great 3 column addaptation of it that I found at Thur's Templates.

Third, this page is in part thanks to all the information I was able to gather from The Blogger Forum. This Forum has alot of good information on it as well as many members willing to offer a bit of advice to new Bloggers. I HIGHLY recommend all bloggers join this forum.

Lastly, this page is in part thanks to my struggles and efforts to adapt the template to my own needs. Please do not blame the two talented artists above for the hatchet job I made of their fine work.

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If you feel we have violated any of your rights please contact us via the email link below and we will gladly address any concerns you might have.

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Sunday, May 28, 2006

Thee Olde Guarde

OOC:

Welcome to the Internet home of Thee Olde Guarde

A Roleplaying Guild on the Thorium Brotherhood (US) - Realm server

in the World of Warcraft Online MMORPG

The purpose of this page is to provide some basic information about our guild: Thee Olde Guarde and what we are all about. Our Guild is for older gamers, who seek to participate in WoW (World of Warcraft) casually, for fun and relaxation. We limit membership to those over the age of 25. The Guarde was founded by GideonHawke.

From GideonHawke

(Chancellor of Thee Olde Guarde):

(feel free to check out his IC (in-character) blog Gideon's Sanctuary )

My vision of Thee Olde Guarde is a simple one. You've heard it all before, a guild that does not care about playtime, levels, end-game content, etc. A guild that is all about friendship and having a good time. Many guilds say this, but few stick with it for the long haul.

In Thee Olde Guarde's case, this is a matter of principle for me. I play this game to have fun, to enjoy the company of others and to relax. I do not want to deal with stress in this game (I have plenty of stress in my RL (Real Life) thanks). I personally could care less if I ever reach level 60. My goal is level 40, only for the mount, and more importantly, so that I can specialize my Blacksmithing into Armorsmithing and really be able to help out the membership as they advance. After that, I am not all that concerned about advancement, when it comes or even if it comes. That is simply not why I play the game. I play to have fun.

So , if you are looking for a guild that works tirelessly to get everyone to 60 to dominate the "end-game" and make sure everyone has their epic toilet paper and what-not, then this is NOT the guild for you. We are a guild about fun, friendship, and laughter.

We as a guild continue to work on developing RP (Roleplaying), both in game and otherwise. Some of our members are new to this form of entertainment, others are old hands at it. In either case we are all learning how to make it work "in-game". When it comes to game play, were are still working out how we want to handle RP. We all want to participate in it, but when and where is a subject for discussion. For example, when a group is running an instance, it tends to be more efficient to communicate OOC about strategy and the like. Currently, we ask all members to be IC when speaking publicly (/say and the like), we treat Guild chat as OOC, we are discussing how we would like to approach RP events, and we leave how communication is handled when in PvP and PvE groups to the people involved in the individual event(s) at that time. All in all, by WoW forum standards, I imagine we would fall somewhere between a lite-RP and a medium-RP Guild.

We have worked hard to establish several resources for our members:

We have a Forum online
We are on RPGOutfitter.com
We have a TeamSpeak server online
We have this Page to promote membership
And we have a membership willing work for our success

We are working towards developing more resources for our members on our forums and otherwise. We have an area devoted to RP there, where members can post IC Journals, setup forum-ased Roleplay topics, or just come participate in the RP free-for-all that is Thee Olde Goblet (a topic based on an Inn, set in WoW for our members to have some fun IC). More and more is developed everyday as I find new things to make available to our members. If you would like, you are welcome to visit our forums at:

www.theeoldeguarde.com

However, please understand that this is a forum for our guild members. As a result, very little content is available for viewing by guests.

If you would like to become a member of Thee Olde Guarde, please review Thee Olde Rules. If these are acceptable to you then feel free to contact GideonHawke in-game (Thorium Brotherhood - US - Realm server). You will need to post a request to join on our forums. To do so, first please review what is needed in your request by reading this post, as there is some requirements and required information for a request to be accepted. Then feel free to post a new topic in the Membership Application section of our forum (Note: Guests can post an application, and an application is required before we can complete your registration on the forum), with the title of that topic being the name of your main character on Thorium Brotherhood (or if different, the name of the primary character you will use within our guild). We require Email verification, as well as Administrator approval before registration is accepted (please, if you are concerned about privacy and the like, simply make an email name at any of the countless free web-based email services, and use that to register on the forums and for guild communication). If approved, we will try to meet up with you in-game and get you invited into the guild ASAP. Alternately, if you would like to discuss establishing some level of friendly relations between your guild and ours, please feel free to post a message about this in our Diplomatic Relations area of the forums.

Once you are a member we encourage you to post an introduction on the forums HERE. Tell us what you want out of the game, what trade skills are you working on, what materials you need to develop them, etc. Tell us about your character and feel free to add whatever other OOC info you would like to share (married, parent, pets, your mailing address in prison, etc). Finally, please do shift over to IC and tell us a bit about your character from his / her perspective, who they are and what they want out of the life.

Once your Introduction is completed you are welcome to jump over to the IC section of the forum, Mazes and Murlocs, and start a get into as great of detail about your character as you like. You might want to develop an IC Journal or an on-going storyline. Either a private one, or one where you invite others to join in the fun. And don't forget to pop into "Thee Olde Goblin" tavern for a bit of RP fun with others on the forums. It's a bit like a WoW version of Cheers.

Once you have checked out out forums and gotten the feel of the place we ask that you get yourself setup for our TeamSpeak server (information on this is available to forum members). Also please sign up a free account over at RPG Outfitters (if you are not on there already), download their Character Profiler Add-on and get your information uploaded as this resource allows our members to work with each other much more efficiently.

In closing, we are a small but growing guild where the focus is community and fun. If your membership disrupts either, and you are not willing to work with us to end the disruption, I will not hesitate to show you the door. I am more concerned about the quality of our membership then the quantity of members and your level, tradeskills, gold donations, or whatever else will not save you. What we all get out of this guild is highly dependent on what we all put into it. So be active, be friendly, and have a ton of fun.

Welcome to Thee Olde Guarde!!

For those who did not make a run for it after reading this:

You are likely our kind of people and this will be your kind of Guild!

Remember using these? Do you still use them?

OK, so its a Role-playing Guild, but whats Role-playing?

Well, Role-playing (in this context anyway) is when game players assume the "roles" of the characters they are playing. In WoW game terms that means, rather then interacting in the game as John, the player behind Gideon, I try to interact as Gideon.

To those unfamiliar with Role-playing, this might seem weird. However, think of it more along the lines of improvisational theater where there are some basic guidelines or rules.

Your character is your role. For instance, Gideon is the son of a Blacksmith who became a Paladin because of a deep desire to help others (There is more to Gideon's background then that, but I will be reveiling this in my Blog postings so stay tuned). So, while playing Warcraft, I make the effort to talk to others as I feel Gideon would, to treat them as I feel he would, etc.

I created Gideon, and I came up with his basic background, motivations, etc. In game, I draw on how I see him and react to the World of Warcraft as feel he would. When others play their characters the same way and we interact with each other we are role-playing.

Really that is all there is too it. Role-playing adds a fun flavor to playing WoW, giving it some depth and adding to the entertainment of it for myself and others who enjoy assuming roles, AKA Roleplaying. This is alot of fun for some, a burden for others. But then, that is why there are differnet types of servers. Thorium Brotherhood happens to be a Role-playing server.

For a more technical definition of Role-playing, check out what Wikipedia has to say about Role-playing.

Also, check out the following great resources:

Cybela's great RP Guide (WoW)

Roleplaying 101 (WoW)