The Lord of the Rings Online Developer Diary

Turbine's official The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar website has been updated with a new developer diary penned by lead systems designer Nik Davidson. This time, Nik focuses on the misconceptions people have of how PvP will work in the game.
This is a story about a world at war. The War of the Ring is the central focus of the narrative; through a series of narrow victories, unlikely discoveries, noble sacrifices and selfless alliances, a war is won or lost. And to truly explore that conflict in the context of the game, we wanted that war to be fought, in part, player versus player as well as player versus environment.

Now, from time to time we've dropped the phrase "monster play," and then quickly scampered back to our island fortress and pretended it never happened. As the astute among you may have guessed, this is the cornerstone of our PvP solution.