There’s some great guides out there for Legends of Norrath.  In fact, I’m sure we’ll see some pretty incredible guides coming out in the coming months and years which will be the end-all, be-all of great guides.  I’m sure you’ll see card lists and strategy guides and all sorts of other guides that will pinpoint all the various combinations of killer cards which can be used to DOMINATE your opponents. 

This guide is not those guides.  This guide is not anything close to those guides.  This guide assumes you have never played a CCG before and have no idea what you’re supposed to do in Legends of Norrath. 

Welcome to LON1101.  Please take your seats…

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It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like. 

-Jackie Mason

I’m sick.  No, I’m really sick.  I’m also not the only one. 

I’ve been dealing with this since FanFaire, and wouldn’t you know it, at least five members of my guild are still dealing with similar symptoms.  The doc says it’s a bacterial infection which has found a home in the warm, moist linings of my throat and lungs.  I’m on antibiotics, codeine, and even an inhaler.  Apparently this particular bug takes about 3-4 weeks to fully run its course.  Awesome.

And yet, even this has me thinking about MMO’s.  Is illness something that could be done in such a way as to enhance an MMO experience?  Or is it just an annoyance which impedes gameplay?

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