I've heard the endless talk surrounding this gaming phenomenon called World of Warcraft for some time now, but I'd just blown it off before. That is until a friend started talking about it and I started asking questions. Being a D&D player in my childhood, I should have known better than to expose myself to this, but in the end curiosity got the better of me.

I'm not going to bore you with a long explanation of what it is. In brief WoW is a massive multiplayer online game. You create and build a character and venture out on quests. The interesting thing is that you play in realms with thousands of other people. You can help each other or fight each other and it's just plain addictive.

The really appealing part of the game is that you create your own character and then you live with that character for months, even years. Right now level 70 is the pinnacle of where you can get and it takes hundreds of hours of playing to get there. I've been playing for about a month now and I've just hit level 38. With every level up, it's a little harder to reach the next, so me being this far after a month doesn't mean I'll hit 70 in another.

I'll admit, this isn't a particularly interesting post to most of you, but for those of you involved in WoW, I may post my character name in the future. Right now I'm a little hesitant to open myself up to a lengthy friends list. I'll continue to write about this for all of you uber nerds out there.