The Helm's Deep expansion has been out for almost a week. This past weekend, along with some of officers from The Osgiliath Guard (I'm not an officer; I work for a living), we had a discussion about the expansion.Joining me are Alanion, Grayr

Captain Roundtable 2013

Aug 6th, 2013 53m 59s

Over this past weekend, The Osgiliath Guard's division captain, Grayman, led a workshop on playing the captain class. Several of TOG's other captains attended to offer their insights into the class and talk about our favourite class.As with t

Champion Roundtable 2013

Jul 29th, 2013 1h 36m

This past weekend, we had a class roundtable (yes, I'm caving and calling them roundtables now) for the Champion class.Joining me are three of The Osgiliath Guard's champions: Renani, Taur and Osdor (you're welcome, GS!). My champion has bee

Episode 200: Thank You

Jul 1st, 2013 4h

This week is our final episode planned for Casual Stroll to Mordor. Thank you everyone for nearly four wonderful years of sharing our love of LOTRO!There is very little news this week but its ok because we have four-hours of chatting with CSTM

Episode 199: Going Out Dumb

Jun 24th, 2013 42m 15s

Our second to last episode ever! This week we had some news on LOTRO Card sales, 20 questions and answers from LOTRO, store sales and more!

Hunter Roundtable 2013

Jun 18th, 2013 1h 26m

I am a bad hunter. I’ll say that right off the bat. A hunter was the first toon that I rolled in LOTRO (and in any MMO really), and it’s a fun class to play. Unfortunately, it’s also a class that can very easily make things go bad for a raid ve

Episode 198: Curd and Whey

Jun 17th, 2013 1h 2m

This week we had update 11.1 release notes, a few developer bites, store sales, announcement of the end of CSTM, brief talk about about Rift free-to-play and more!

More Minstrel Talk

Jun 13th, 2013 1h 2m

This is the second part of our minstrel discussion featuring Vraeden, Alanion and several minstrels from The Osgiliath Guard from Elendilmir.

Episode 197: Ow When U P

Jun 9th, 2013 41m 33s

This week is very light on LOTRO news. We’re hoping for big news next week from E3! So we talk about the store sale, gossip about shadowofmordor.com and talk about Doctor Who.

Episode 196: Back from Vacation!

Jun 3rd, 2013 51m 15s

We’ve been gone for two weeks and return to catch up on LOTRO news! We talk about update 11.0.1 release notes, spring festival, store sales and more!

Minstrel Roundtable 2013

May 29th, 2013 1h 47m

Vraeden and two other minstrel players from The Osgiliath Guard (Elendilmir) have a discussion about playing the minstrel class.

Episode 195: The Fredelas Report

May 13th, 2013 46m 34s

This week we discuss the upcoming launch of Update 11 and the developer diaries that released this past week.

Episode 194: Tealified

May 6th, 2013 58m 58s

This week we talk about anniversary rewards, update 10.1.1, The One Fund, Housing developer notes and more!Dums went to Enedwaith to take care some small fellowship landscape quests.Hoppy was able to join us and we killed a lot of foxes. Golde

Episode 193: Helms Deep Expansion

Apr 28th, 2013 56m 13s

This episode we talk about the big announcement of Helms Deep, update 11 on bullroarer, upcoming changes to the LOTRO site, player council and more!This week we had three Dums go and smash through the Warg Pens in Mirkwood. Then we returned to

Episode 192: Twins!

Apr 22nd, 2013

This week we talk about the anniversary festival, hobbit presents, some store specials, player events and more!

Episode 191: Shoelaces, Mudflaps, and Toilet Paper

Apr 14th, 2013 51m 48s

This week we talk about the LOTRO 6th Anniversary Festival, issues with EU VIP points, store sales, community news and more!Goldenstar’s Dum group did all three instances of the Great Barrows this week and had a great time. Silvers Dum got a s

Episode 190: I Kissed a Booger Y’all

Apr 7th, 2013 1h 9m

We return from the land known as Texas and start up the podcast again giving you guys the latest news!

Episode 189: Can We Cut That Out?

Mar 17th, 2013 1h 8m

This week we talk about Fashion Week, Bullroarer Took Day, screenshot contests, an upcoming Twitter chat and more!

Episode 188: It's Goldenstar's Birthday!

Mar 11th, 2013 1h 7m

This week we talk about Update 10’s release, dev diary, screenshots, known issues, developer bites, store updates and more!Goldenstar’s Dum group did the Mirkwood instance, Dungeons, this week and pretty much were not huge fans of the mechanic

Episode 187: Looning In

Mar 4th, 2013 1h 12m

This week we had several dev diaries to go over for Update 10, a new store exclusive steed, news on Turbine PAX East party, bullroarer notes, store sales and more!

Episode 186: Taking It To X1

Feb 25th, 2013 1h 9m

This week we talk about the XP and Lootbox drop boosts that are active, bullroarer updates, a new dev diary, twitter dev chat, store sales and more!

Episode 185: Best Podcast Ever

Feb 18th, 2013 1h

Don’t let the title fool you, we had ever so much trouble getting this podcast out to you. Baby Hobbit was very sweet that she pretty much forced herself to stay awake because she “wants to podcast, too!” but unfortunately couldn’t make it and

Episode 184: Bacon Apple Pie

Feb 11th, 2013 1h 13m

This week we have new bullroarer notes to go through and some maintenance announcements that are coming up for this week and a list of developer bites.

Episode 183: Sealed Relic of the Farting Badger

Feb 3rd, 2013 1h 18m

This week we had a producer’s letter for a peak of what’s to come for LOTRO in 2013. Bullroarer has opened up and the first dev diary has been released.

Episode 182: I Want a Golden Lore-master

Jan 28th, 2013 1h 5m

This week 9.1 went live and we go over some of the highlights we found from the release notes. We also had a very interesting dev chat that happened this week.