Real Name
Richard
Character Name / Class
Dullahan / Captain
What games are you currently playing with Precept
LotRO is my main game, and BF Bad Company 2 or AvP because sometimes after a hard days work you just need to shoot things/rip off faces as an alien!
What do you do in Precept
I am an officer in the LotRO division, and caretaker of the Kinship during the quiet phases. I also have an unofficial duty to be quick witted, insulting and sarcastic on the forums as this helps members from other countries to remember why they love the English.
How and why did you get involved in Precept
My first MMORPG was Everquest followed by Everquest 2. Played for years and loved it, made good friends but they were always on the wrong side. When LotRO was released I had high hopes as there was no good/evil to split up friends and the classes were straightforward and clear defined roles. No more class balancing nightmares or holy trio groups!
Started playing and thoughts turned to joining a guild. A couple of friends found a group of dedicated players forging ahead and joined a guild called Sanguine Expeditionary Force, I never joined however. As a bit of a role-player I thought the name sounded ridiculous and couldn’t stand the thought of walking around the world of JRR Tolkien with such a “ye-ha” and “gun-ho” American name. However after a while SEF started to fall apart and my friends decided it was time to take the best players from the wreckage and start a new guild. They wanted a guild that would achieve, be the driving force of the server, top guild with server first achievements! So one day my friend “Giles” calls me up to think of a name. Something catchy, dramatic and a single word (because all the top achieving guilds have one word names) and after a bit of thought and random dictionary searching I suggested “Precept” and promptly joined the newly created guild.
What do you do in game
As a character, I’m primarily the buff class, but can also heal, tank, fight and summon. In fact my ability to cross the game world and be ready to summon in the same time it takes people to think about it, has directly led to many of the guild not knowing where anything is, where any of the roads go to or how to find the front door!
As a person I’m the quiet type in-game. I used to be a guild leader in past games, and at work I have to order people about and make hard choices, so when playing games I now just sit back and relax. However when something needs to be done, such as save the Precept name from mutiny and create a safe haven for returning players, I’m the man!
I’m also really humble. Fantastic, but humble.
What’s your favourite Precept memory
Defeating Thorog the undead dragon, the first raid boss in the game, and getting server first (followed by server and euro first on the revamped version). I’ve always enjoyed co-operative game play, working as a team to achieve great things. Working through the trash and early encounters, following the storyline, figuring out the final encounter. Going back each time and dying, learning, dying, learning and then that moment when it all falls into place and you can taste victory as the fight settles into a rhythm. Then the beast falls and you jump up from your chair, fists in the air, shouting in jubilation as your non-gaming girlfriend looks at you with that wide eyed expression reserved for shouting weirdoes!
Then in all the cheering and back slapping, you realise that your one level to low to get the quests that everyone is talking about and you walk away empty handed . . .
What do you hope to see in Precept’s future
The Precept dream was to be the best, and we were. Then when the game became stale people went to try another game and be the best. The dream was changed to being a global, multi-game community that was the best in everything we played. Out reputation precedes us in every game we play, both from people who love us and those who hate us.
My hope is to see “Precept” in the Urban Dictionary as the description for everything amazing and awesome in online gaming.
Who else would you like to see interviewed
I think it’s time to hear from Song
What question would you like us to ask the next person
I’d like to ask why he listens to such bad music, but instead I’ll go with “Why are all your characters so effeminate?”
Well, you do look like a redneck…