Keep track of your quests

one quickly learns the importance of storage: belts, bags, backpacks and chests. Unfortunately, there’s never nearly enough space, and adding more becomes ridiculously expensive. So always keep in mind the carrying costs.

Unlike World of Warcraft (or hard drives in the 90’s), digital storag...

My website is really just me running back to the newbie lands and giving away what I can. I could put my advice in a book and charge $15.95 for it, but I see it as the take-a-penny, leave-a-penny flow of information.

I regularly search the web for answers on topics in which I’m a newbie an...

It’s easy to confuse what you’re doing with why you’re doing it. Grinding is a means of achieving a specific goal, whereas the game itself is supposed to be entertaining. So once you level, stop grinding and start exploring.

I worked for a year as a reader, it was good money, but it was wea...

In WoW parlance, “grinding” is the process of killing a bunch of fairly easy monsters, one after the other, strictly to rack up loot and experience. There’s no adventure to it...but it’s often the fastest way to level up.

Daily life is full of mindless tedium, but there’s an important disti...

As you look back at any period of your life, you don’t remember what a solid plan you had. You remember what you did. You remember the adventures, the scrapes, the unanticipated detours that turned out to fascinating. So don’t plan your way out of an exciting life.