MMORPGs are social beasts, regard­less of whether you’re quest­ing with oth­ers or just using it as a glo­ri­fied chat room. This is some­thing I think a lot of peo­ple can eas­ily for­get, includ­ing me. It’s also some­thing that took me a long time to accept.

While I still largely play solo due to the lim­ited time I have in-game, I am not a solo-only player. For a long time I was, for rea­sons that hon­estly escape me. I avoided chat­ting. I avoided tells. I shied away from group quests, which meant that a lot of Epic Book quests lin­gered in my log. Many of them went gray twenty lev­els ago.

I sup­pose offline fac­tors in my life con­tributed to this. I’m mostly refer­ring to the fact that I was a shy per­son in my daily life. More than that, though, I just wanted to rush things with­out rely­ing on other people.

Things have changed a bit and along the way I’ve been a lit­tle less closed off in these games.

Hav­ing expe­ri­enced the extreme oppo­site, I have to say this to peo­ple: if you only play by your­self you are miss­ing half of the expe­ri­ence. Do not deny your­self this com­po­nent of the game.

I really rec­om­mend that every­one give a Kin­ship a try. There’s always some recruit­ing in the game and you can find even more on the offi­cial forums.

Almazar of LOTRO Reporter recently made a guild for LOTRO blog­gers, pod­cast­ers and fans on the Brandy­wine server. I thought this was a great idea.

If you’re still try­ing to find a Kin or want a new one, give it a try. You can con­tact Almazar on Twit­ter or in-game to get started. Other offi­cers you can PM in-game to join include:

• Weaux
• Issani
• Sal­lenia
• Gold­en­sun
• Shar­rien

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