Since I had the day off today, I took the chance to do some painting. Specifically, I wanted to take a stab painting my shifting stones and sentry stone (since it looks fairly similar). Pictures after the jump.
Category Archives: Gaming
Guild Wars – Skill Combinations
One of the first things that I noticed while playing Guild Wars 2 was the significantly smaller number of possible skill combinations available as a character. To get an idea of the order of mangitude in the differences, I fired up excel and put together some simple equations:
Guild Wars 2 – Now that it’s live
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been playing quite a bit of Guild Wars 2. I’m still pretty early in the game at this point, but I wanted to put together a post about some of the things that I’ve liked, and some of the things that seem a bit off, from the content that I’ve experienced.
Wait, What? Warhammer!
On Thursday, I played a game of Warhammer with Tim at Karl’s shop. At first, I was quite hesitant, because I got stomped so completely last time, but I put together a list with a lot of troops and hoped for an objective game.
Fireworks on the Table
While I was home for the fourth of July weekend, I managed to get in a couple of games of WARMACHINE with my younger brother. While the rest of the family were watching fireworks on the TV, Will and I were making fireworks on the table in a couple of small death matches: Khador vs. Protectorate of Menoth and Khador vs. Retribution of Scyrah.
Looks like it’s time for round two, eh captain?
This week, I got to play against Tim again in a Khador vs Circle battle. While we only managed to get in one game, the evolution of the game surprised me. I’ll be honest, I nearly surrendered just before everything clicked into place…
Continue reading Looks like it’s time for round two, eh captain?
Guild Wars – Hall of Monuments
As I get excited about Guild Wars 2, I have been playing a bit more of the original Guild Wars. For me, there are quite a few things that I really enjoy about Guild Wars: instancing, heroes, skill hunting – and I’m making some time to do these things because I still enjoy them even as I look forward to Guild Wars 2. Still, I was quite happy recently that I finally got 30 points in my Hall of Monuments.
Minecraft Mapmaking
With the Minecraft server being my responsibility, I finally got everything together to start pushing the map to my web server. This was a bit of a task because there are a lot of files, and the whole thing wasn’t small. Luckily, I’ve been making full use of rsync to avoid recopying files that didn’t need it.
Here’s the map! From now on, you can also find it from the minecraft link on the sidebar.
Warmachine vs Hordes
This week I got the chance to do a couple of low-point games of Warmachine as I helped a friend get the hang of the rules. In the second game, Tim wanted a crack at Circle of Orboros, so we did a game of Warmachine vs Hordes – lists and battle summaries to follow.
Guild Wars 2 – Second Beta Weekend Event
This weekend was the second beta weekend event, so, since I had Friday off this week, I, of course, spent some time playing (and subsequently didn’t blog on Friday). This weekend, I managed to get my own account up, and was able to play with both Jessa and Sally. Thoughts, impressions, and some pictures of my new character (Drakken Crane) follow.