The ugly, “WTF”-inducing yarns are almost more reason to go to WEBS than the good yarns you just want to fondle forever.

It was great meeting you and the rest of the New England LSGers as well!

It was great meeting you guys.

And yeah, definitely turds. I wish I could find it again, but I saw someone crochet up some cat poop on Rav last week.

I think the Dunkleosteus will make an excellent tattoo. It looks much better than the traditional carp version (and is definitely a lot more original). Where are you planning on placing it, body-wise?

I end up doing a fair amount of adjusting on larger circs as well, just because I’m a tight knitter and my stitches sometimes don’t move as fluidly as they might. I’ll probably end up using the circ as an alternative for making socks or gloves when my size 2 DPNs have something going on them.

Also, I seem to go faster with the circ than on DPNs of the same size. Probably because I’m not moving between several needles as I do a round.

I think I’ll just stick to magic looping on my 40″ circs.

But then again, a lot of the features that are nigh identical to Blizzard’s opus are standard in any number of other MMORPGs. The combo system for rogues, for instance, is just like that of assassins in Guild Wars (except GW has it a little more nuanced than RoM and even FlyFF has a combo system for mercenaries and blades, though it’s a bit different in mechanics), the rage system for warriors is similar to adrenaline for warriors and paragons in GW (I can’t comment on the seal system for Knights, since I never played WoW to experience the Paladin version).

It does seem like RoM is, after borrowing so much, trying to expand on or just plain include areas and features that Blizzard neglected. Housing, crafting, dual-classing being prime examples.

After playing World of Warcraft for several years and having grown bored with it, I decided to try out RoM on your recommendation.

It plays a loooooooot like WoW, especially with the way some class mechanics are setup (the warrior rage system, the knight seals are identical to WoW’s paladin seals, the rogue combo system, etc). Although the character graphics are a lot less cartoony than WoW, the environment graphics are very similar (and I think some are taken directly from WoW). The key shortcuts are pretty much identical as well.

That said, the differences are enough to make the game interesting enough to play without blowing it off as another WoW clone. Being able to do more than two crafting skills is a bit of a change. The housing system is a nice addition, although I’m still learning exactly what their function is. And of course the dual class system will be fun to play around with when I get to that point.

It is not as polished as WoW is, but considering it’s free, I’m enjoying it for what it is.