The Lord of the Rings Online Developer Diary
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In many ways, the Content Support team is like having a live art team within the regular Production art team. I worked on the Asheron's Call 2 live team before moving over to LOTRO and I worked on EverQuest 2 before that, so I have a lot of experience with all sorts of nutty content requests. In fact, one of the best parts of my job is getting to work on such a wide variety of stuff. One day I might be making a new monster and the next I might be making a Kingsfoil bush for a quest. On AC2 we had some very odd requests, such as trying to come up with a variety of dreaded Drudge weapons. For those of you who don't know, the only weapon a Drudge is good at making is a board with a nail in it. We came up with a bunch of boards with nails... board with big nail, board with many nails, board with even more nails, etc. And then there were the Drudge dance animations... ahhh, good times! I'd like to tell you about some of the stranger requests from the LOTRO Content team ("ball of yarn", for example), but I would probably spoil a bunch of quests if I did.
