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Layonara is so much more than a game. We started off as a tabletop Dungeons and Dragons campaign more than a decade ago. Since then we have developed into a fantasy world with as much compelling and engrossing detail as you will find anywhere.

Our current showcase is a Neverwinter Nights version of Layonara, where our world comes to life in a finely polished persistent world which you can play free of charge. These forums are set up to support and accentuate our player's experiences, but it goes far beyond that.

After years of passionate effort, our world is so well developed, so detailed, so refined that any of the handbooks, maps, historical accounts, legends, descriptions of artifacts, creature reports, character biographies, short stories, novels, movies and original art which populate these forums can surely serve as resources or inspiration for your own fantasy endeavors, whatever they may be. And our world is endlessly evolving, so resources are frequently added and updated.

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Old 11-02-07, 02:24 PM #1
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Default For social scientists and the paranoic

Read the article "Virtual Worlds, Real Science" in the 10/27/07 Science News Magazine. A plague unleashed by an attacked god decimated the WoW world for nearly a week. Scientists were fascinated by the behaviors exhibited and are publishing real papers in respected journals on the phenomenon. Moreover, they're begging online worlds for access to data on social behavior. Gee, we could be guinea pigs!

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Old 11-02-07, 03:26 PM #2
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Default Re: For social scientists and the paranoic

or better they might fund layo to see how we act
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Old 11-02-07, 03:36 PM #3
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Default Re: For social scientists and the paranoic

This may actually help me on an investigative journalism peice I'm doing for school. I wanted to write about how for some people Virtual Fantasy worlds such as World of Warcraft could for some come to replace real social behavior and the positive and negative effects that spur from it.

Some people meet their best friends and the people they wanna spent their life with online.

Others drop out of college to play WoW on a 36/24 (Play sleep) schedule.

My idea is basically to interview people these things have effected (Maybe I can even get Leanthar to speak on it People are sure addicted to what he's created), and talk to the developmental psychology professor in my college to get his take ecetera.

So Thanks Serissa!
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