You don’t get much more charming than the Knitting Grandma, the surprise hit guest at last fall’s BlizzCon 2011 WoW Insider Reader Meetup. Remember her? She charmed our staff and meetup guests alike with her dry wit and talk of Thunder Bluff-themed socks.
Today, we press forward from the warm, fuzzy territory covered by the Knitting Grandma with two window-rattling volleys in the battle against gamer stereotypes:
- You don’t have to be a granny to knit and play World of Warcraft. Even the author of Clique, the preeminent click-casting addon, gets his knit on.
- Whether they knit or not, even grannies can be GMs. Of raiding guilds. Who’ve raided since original Molten Core. And top the DPS meters. Wielding Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa’s Rest. (So yes, that does indeed qualify her to tell you kids to “GET OFF MY LAWN!”)
Meet Marthazon, the 70-year-old GM of Spartans on Dalaran (US-A).
You can read more about the exploits of Marthazon at WoW Insider. And gamers aren’t the only readers applauding this lady’s tale of gaming domination; the story is also being linked around at reddit and even Jezebel (Awesome nerd grandma rules at Warcraft) and Huffington Post (Meet Marthazon, the 70-year-old gaming grandma).
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