Session Play

With their most recent update, LOTRO has released a new feature they call Session Play, which allows you to play as a non-persistent character in the realm.

With this new mechanism you can play as side characters such as a ranger, a troll or in their initial example, a chicken.

At first I thought this was a little gimmicky, but then I realized that this has some serious potential, because it allows the players to step outside of their grind (as if I haven't complained about that enough) and do something fun and refreshing and, probably most importantly, non-committal. More to the point it really opens up new ways to leverage existing assets, like the world and the NPC's which otherwise have fairly static game play value on their own.

I for one welcome our new Fowl Session Overlords.