Welcome to the March 2010 edition of the Gaming My Way Blog Carnival. We’re picking up steam, and have some great submissions this month, so hopefully you’ll enjoy the hard work of those who’ve contributed. Meg put in the first submission of the month with her post Silkroad Society at Simpson’s Paradox. In it, she [...]
I’m going to stick with Dungeons and Dragons (3.5 and the Pathfinder spinoff, not 4e), mostly because this is the only rpg I’ve played where splatbooks came into play often. For those who haven’t heard the term splatbook (it’s pretty common, but apparently not quite as prevalent as I thought), I’m talking about any book [...]
This morning, the authentication servers for Assassin’s Creed 2 went down. For those who don’t know, Assassin’s Creed 2 keeps a continuous connection to the servers in order to authenticate the game, and it will stop running when it can’t connect to the servers. So, anyone who actually purchased a copy of the game can’t [...]
As I see it, there are two basic ways to do character creation, though there are a lot of variations on these two methods. You can have everyone come together as a group to build characters, or you can have players build characters on their own, then bring them to the group. Both methods, naturally, [...]
There are some games that include basic, everyday skills as things you have to purchase. In Pathfinder, these include skills like Perception, Climb, and Swim. In World of Darkness, these include skills like Drive and Computers. For Pathfinder, these skills can be used untrained, which means you can make a roll, add your base ability, [...]
