Breakfast Topic: Games within the game
by Elizabeth Harper 
Jan 25th 2008 at 8:00AM
We all know (or at least I hope we all know) that World of Warcraft is a game -- an MMO set in an immense universe with countless quests to do and whole continents to explore. However, sometimes the big game isn't as interesting as the minigames you can find. Steam tonk wars? (Or other pet games.) Guild bank checkers? (If you haven't tried that one, it's a blast!) What do you think of Azeroth's minigames -- do you play them? Do you enjoy them? Do you make up your own to entertain yourself between raids? Tell us about them!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Andy Jan 25th 2008 8:21AM
we had a game of fight club with a few firends :D
all rolled lvl 1 alt, no shirts, fist fighting only
after a while we livened it up by allowing each person ot have A buff from a higher char..
was very fun, shud play again tbh
PeeWee Jan 25th 2008 9:00AM
"The first rule of Fight Club is - you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is - you DO NOT talk about Fight Club."
ThorinII Jan 25th 2008 8:27AM
Just last night we were in the graveyard in Sepulcher naked fist fighting.
theadob Jan 25th 2008 8:31AM
Our guild played hide and go seek in Undercity one night for two hours. We had to have the hunters turn off their Find Humanoids ability. I offered prizes of 1-10g for our guildies to play otherwise they would not have spent time doing it. Once they got started though, they loved it and it became a regualr event in other places.
If they could not find me quickly, I would start sending out vague hints in guild chat every couple of minutes until I was found.
Zaknafeiin (Rob) Jan 25th 2008 9:56AM
...when waiting for some guild members to catch up to us just before Prince in Kara....me and my mate Tim decided to throw leather balls at each other and try and dodge out of the way of them. Annoyed the hell outta the other guildies but real fun!
Joe Klinkhoff Jan 25th 2008 8:57AM
didn't someone famous get sentenced to jail ecently for allowing his "pet" to fight other pets.
Cailleach Jan 25th 2008 9:25AM
No, some overhyped jock got jailed to too little time for abusing his animal grossly, and FORCING them to fight other animals, cruelly killing any who didn't measure up, or allowing them to be killed by stronger animals. Animal abusers don't have pets, only victims.
Phil Jan 25th 2008 9:35AM
Dunno about here, but back when I still played FFXI, my linkshell used to periodically sponsor Naked Marathons - basically everyone would strip off all their gear and run from one starting point to another, usually with a prize for the winner.
It'd probably be even more fun on WoW, given the variety of the terrain and movement-affecting abilities and such. Of course, I'm not in a guild yet, so I couldn't say.
KateJaneway Jan 25th 2008 9:41AM
I haaaaate the Ogri'La Daily, thank jeebus for Ogri'Lazy. I was never a fan of simon says! And I do want to go play Chess against other people in my guild, that'd be a blast! I also heard about a guild playing musical chairs in Moroes' room.
My guild is great at coming up with social fun events. Naked runs to random places, fashion shows, naked fighting, treasure hunters, hide and seek... There's a lot to keep you occupied ^_^
Poosammich Jan 25th 2008 10:24AM
poker addon back in MC/BWL :)
dagny Jan 25th 2008 11:16AM
One of my friends on an RP-PvE server had a guild event where they all rolled level 1 dwarves and raced from the starting area to Booty Bay.
My friend was new to the game and had never played alliance, so she got very turned around initially, but then I started directing her and she was the only one who ended up swimming along the Westfall/Stranglethorn coast and won the contest easily.
We also had a scavenger hunt around Orgrimmar once, random stuff you might not notice like the armor of Mannoroth.
And, of course, drinking, dancing and naked fistfights are the heart of any RP event.
LAURA Jan 25th 2008 12:33PM
My guild hosts naked runs, drag runs (male toons wearing dresses; dwarves were an obvious first choice, taurens will be next...), hunts to collect "full sets" of trash armor (knitted, crocheted, etc.) and brief events like summoning parties where we bring lowbies to useful flightpaths like Kargath, Hammerfall and Refuge Point. We also had a picnic where we gave rare recipes to the toons who increased their cooking the most in one afternoon; everyone donated uncooked food of all levels and we had helpers stationed as "spice racks" to start fires and offer spices and other ingredients. We had a farming night in Arathi to gather mats for our new and poor bank - guild members pretty much wiped the whole area and we reaped stacks of leather, ore & cloth. At Winters Veil, we made sure that every member had at least 5 small eggs to complete the Greatfather cookie quest; this took much bird killing in Mulgore, Ashenvale and Westfall! We've also done Hallow's End fun runs of low level dungeons, where costumes are required and oddball fighting styles encouraged - priests melee, hunters put their pets on aggressive, warriors and rogues equip fish or mugs. So, um...yeah. We're into games a bit.
Orgrum Jan 25th 2008 1:36PM
how can i get into your guild? LOL
Bocks Jan 25th 2008 8:58PM
Wow, Laura...ya'll must be a partyin' bunch! I agree with #13...where do ya'll play and how can I get in?