I’m finally playing Fallout 3 and seem to be in the mood for that Bethesda Softworks approach, so I’m enjoying myself for the moment. After considerable character tweaking, I settled on a really imbalanced character with 10 Intelligence, 9 Agility, Perception, & Luck, and 1 Strength, Endurance, and Charisma. This, after trying a great many [...]
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A War Around the Table
May 26, 2010 – 9:27 am
It seems to me that most pen and paper RPGs are designed in such a way that conflicts of ego between players–and for this purpose I’m referring to everyone around the table as a player–are a natural result of gameplay. First off, most RPGs structures are still inherently based on war gaming, in which two [...]
They’re Not Small, No No No!
March 30, 2010 – 11:11 am
For most of my gaming career, I’ve been staunchly anti-mini. Minis carry with them the stink of battle maps and endless monster-filled dungeons comprised of 10×10 corridors. Minis echo with the flat drone of military-history nerds, arguing over how many inches a micro-scale war machine can fling a flaming ball of pitch. Minis display their [...]
