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, and [...]
Welcome to the very first edition of the Gaming My Way Blog Carnival. It’s short and sweet, but we’ll start slow and hopefully build it up over time. Hopefully you’ll enjoy the offerings of our various carnival submitters this month.
Tony Huynh has Greatest Video Game Trailers, God of War III (3) Release date [...]
I just saw a piece on the Boston Herald, talking about a killer and playing up the fact that he played Dungeons and Dragons like it was relevant to the case. This, in tandem with other stories like how a prisoner was told he can’t play D&D, even though it really is in line with [...]
Note: This piece is not at all serious. Don’t take it as such, and you’ll hopefully enjoy it. And if you’re one of those watchdog groups that thinks games are bad, this piece is not the place to do your research. I’m making certain claims because they’re funny, not because they’re true.
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So you level up on a rigid basis, determined by the XP table in the back of your rulebook, right? Perfectly reasonable, and definitely the standard for most RPGs. However, you might want to consider if this really suits your style of play. If you like going strictly by the rules, and having a well-defined [...]
Like most things I write about Dungeons and Dragons, I’m going to be working with D&D 3.x, specifically the core rules as presented in The Hypertext d20 SRD. In the case of this piece, I’m also only going to be talking about named magic items, rather than all magic item properties. So, you won’t see [...]
Most gamers do a bit of optimizing their characters when building for a campaign. After all, you want to be good at whatever you do. Of course, this leads to discussion on gaming message boards about how to make the best possible characters. Usually, optimizers discount blatant cheese like Pun-Pun, the Omniscifier, and 9th level [...]
Quite awhile ago, I wrote about a campaign in the works based around a conspiracy theory that I was going to set in and around my hometown. While it’s ready to run, using home as the setting for the game gives an interesting perspective on home sometimes. Sometimes, I just look at a place and [...]
There has been a lot of talk in the media about video games, obviously. Some of the worst of this talk says certain games should be banned as they don’t uphold the values a particular group thinks they should. Other versions say that games cause people to become murderers. I’m sure all gamers here are [...]
