User:Robin Anadri

Me
I'm an aging gen x'er geek working for a big communications company in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. I spend most of my free time playing Guild Wars, you can decide for yourself whether or not that means I have no life. *grin*

My Characters

 * Robin Anadri
 * Tehanu Anadri
 * Orenishi Anadri
 * Raven Anadri
 * Kushiel Anadri
 * Geheimnis Anadri
 * Morticia Anadri
 * Li Xiu Anadri
 * Zaynab bint Anadri
 * Angelique Anadri
 * The Mo/Me Raths Outgrabe - Level 11.5ish pre-sear monk for helping new Tyrians

Why Anadri?
Back in the mists of ancient times, when I was first creating characters to play Neverwinter Nights I was stuck for a name so I was letting it auto-generate names. After many, many tries, it popped up with "Celadrithien Anadrith" which I thought was just perfect for the elven cleric I was creating. Since that character became the main one that I played, and went on to finish the game and all expansions with, I grew kind of attached to it. When I got involved in the beta testing for Guild Wars, that pesky character limit wouldn't let me use the whole name, and rather than shorten "Celadrithien" I chopped the "th" off Anadrith to fit. I actually liked the look/sound of Anadri better, and used it as the last name for all of what I have come to refer to as the Incarnations of Anadri.

Since mesmer is my favorite profession, my mesmer incarnation is graced with my actual first name, Robin. Celadrithien, my original necromancer, and Xena, my original warrior (princess), still exist but are now retired storage mules, as they were created on a separate account due to stupid four-character limit that reigned for so long. When character slot purchase was finally implemented, I created Morticia and Li Xiu on my main account.

My Guild
I am guild leader of Girl Power [GP] (http://girlpowergw.wordpress.com).

Our guild is an old one, having originally formed during the very first World Preview Event at E3 in 2003. The original group was small, and comprised entirely of a group of my friends, all lesbians who played together in a few other games. The original concept was that [GP] would be an all-lesbian guild. However, eventually (and perhaps predictably) we had play experiences with good people who we wanted to have with us in the guild, despite their inconvenient Y chromosomes, or attraction to those with same. We decided to open up the membership to anyone that we got to know and liked, which would of necessity be persons mature and gay-friendly.

Our requirements solidified to be first and foremost: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and/or Transgender (LGBT) friendly (ie., you don't have to be LGBT, but we don't take bigots & homophobes.) Secondly, to preserve the freedom of members to talk freely on guild chat, and as a minimum guarantor of some level of maturity, members must be at least eighteen years of age. Now, of course, age is no true guarantee of maturity, and this rule has cost us the membership of people we would otherwise love to have in the guild, but we have made (and will make) no exceptions. Of course, the same goes for the first rule, but that is handled usually by our recruitment method: We play with and get to know people before they're invited to the guild. You won't ever find our officers spamming local chat with our guild stats.

We have grown slowly, usually by accepting a PUG in a mission, being impressed by their play style, intelligence, wit, and personality, and noticing they're not guilded, at which time we talk to them about [GP], add them to our flist, and proceed to play the game with for a while, provided they express an interest in the guild. If it seems mutually profitable, they're invited. The guild is a group of friends, and we maintain that by strict adherence to the Bill & Ted Principle, namely, "Be excellent to each other... and, party on, dudes!"

You may have gleaned from this that we're largely PvE, which is true. However, we also have a robust PvP corps for those that are interested in that. We have officers for PvP purposes, so they can start GvG from our hall, etc. Some of our members have made quite a splash across the HA/GvG scene, you may have seen "Meditating Kitsune's team has won a battle in the Hall of Heros..." or seen Living Too Die or Nemesis Furiae in Observer mode, as their primaries were members of [DiE] and now [Sigh], and they guest for some pretty competitive guilds. Our alliance has a lot of people who like to go to HA and GvG as well.

The guild is Kurzick aligned and is a member of the Happy Hellion Nation alliance (http://www.happyhellion.com). We are not faction farmers. We don't require or even suggest members do anything with their Kurzick faction but trade it for amber. If you're going for the "Friend of the Kurzicks" title and want to donate faction to accomplish that, then you're certainly welcome. But our alliance isn't in the business of trying to control towns in Factions.

If you are looking for a friendly, mature, LGBT-friendly guild and meet our requirements, get in touch with me in game (I have a lot of characters, but they all end in "Anadri" - just add Robin Anadri to your flist and send me a whisper) and we'll meet and chat, get to know each other. You may also contact our officers:


 * Sami Fly
 * Celestial Kitsune
 * Nyx Furiae
 * Brown Pinapple
 * I Gary I

If you like us, but aren't eighteen, we can introduce you to our alliance guilds that don't have an age requirement. If you're a bigot, we can't help you, the LGBT-friendly requirement is alliance-wide.

Contributions
I haven't done much with GuildWiki yet, since I'm still learning the ropes, but I dearly love this wiki, and the idea of the wiki, and the collaborative knowledge project that it is. My usual response to people asking questions on all chat in outposts is "Check the wiki." So I'm enjoying giving a little back to the community.

Builds

 * /Reap a Virulent Victory

Videos

 * 55 Mesmer FTW - Ok, not exactly a contribution to GuildWiki, but certainly meant as a contribution to the Guild Wars community as a whole. I'm not claiming credit for the 55 Mesmer build nor was I the first to make a video about it, but mainly I wanted to spread the glory of Mesmers. And it was fun to make, too.