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Storyboard: Brother from the same mother
An awful lot of characters seem to be only-children. In some countries this is pretty normal, but it's certainly not normal where I'm living. Pretty much all of my friends and contemporaries have at least one sibling. So it seems a bit odd that your roleplaying characters don't have any fellow family members to talk to. The realistic reason, of course, is that most of us don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about those siblings. And in some cases it's entirely reasonable to say that your character might not know her several half-siblings. But in the interests of verisimilitude, it's worth thinking about this, even if you never want siblings to become a major focus of roleplaying. You can come at this topic from two angles. You can talk about how to handle siblings, or you can talk about the impact of siblings. For this column, I'm going to focus on the former. What are the options for including your character's siblings?
DS Daily: Sibling rivalry
For those of you have siblings -- whether you still live with them or not -- we thought we might ask about your gaming relationships with them. If you're a little older now and living apart, we're curious as to whether or not you both grew up gamers, and if you liked the same sorts of games. For those of you who still live with your rivals siblings, we pose the same questions, but we also wonder if you guys play together ... particularly when it comes to DS. Is everyone packing their own unit, or do you have to share?
