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No post tonight… Wifey's Birthday!

Celestial SmileYeah my beautiful Half-Celestial wife Alexandra turns ## today (Yeah like I’d say that on the Web and expect to live).

The whole family is going to the restaurant tonight and I don’t think that going online to blog after the kids are in bed is going to make me a popular guy in the house. So in the interest of Male Survival and just plain decency, I shan’t post any RPG stuff tonight…

(It would really help my case if you could drop a happy birthday wish and reassure her that this Overlord buisness isin’t true!)

I will have a mini-post up tomorrow early in the afternoon right before I start the last preps for the game… Because I also happen to be the Daycare’s Santa tomorrow morning… Can you believe that I’ve been doing this for 5 years and my children never recognized me? I must have a wicked bonus in Disguise!

The Chatty DM is the "nom de plume" of gamer geek Philippe-Antoine Menard. He has been GMing various versions of D&D and other RPGs for nearly 30 years. A renowned RPG blogger, game designer and published author, he squats a corner of Critical Hits he affectionately calls "Musings of the Chatty DM." (Email Phil or follow him on Twitter.)

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  1. Happy Birthday!

    Don’t worry, we’ll keep Phil in check.

    Between PM and I, we enabled him to get this far. (Well, technologically, at least.) We can knock him back down a notch if we need to.

  2. Yan says:

    Bonne fête Alexandra!

  3. ScottM says:

    Happy Birthday Alexandra! I hope you have a lot (NN-##) of Happy Birthdays to come.

  4. Zozeer says:

    Happy birthday!

  5. Dave T. Game says:

    Happy Birthday!

    I bet it actually has its advantages, being married to an evil Overlord…

  6. Scarecrow says:

    Breithlá shona duit!

    (That’s happy birthday in the native Irish tongue, a language that’s almost dead, and forcefed to Irish youngsters in schools, soon we’ll be rid of it .. soooooon)

    As you command, Overlord.

  7. Phased Weasel says:

    Happy Birthday! I would say it in French (I’ve had 4 years training because I attended highschool in Burlington, VT), but honestly beyond l’anniversaire it has abandonded me. I’m in graduate school, maybe I’ll audit a class and get that back. It’s a cool language.

  8. Phased Weasel says:

    “That’s happy birthday in the native Irish tongue, a language that’s almost dead, and forcefed to Irish youngsters in schools, soon we’ll be rid of it .. soooooon”

    Nooooo! Didn’t you read the intro to Seamus Heaney’s “Beowfulf”? Irisih is nearly dead, protect your precious heritage!

  9. andy says:

    Happy Birthday.

    Clearly we have a ‘May/December’ thing going on here, the wife appears to be 20 years young, right? ;)

  10. ChattyDM says:

    Alex thanks you all warmly and said that Andy wins a thousand Million Overlord-Wife karma points.

  11. Scarecrow says:

    “Nooooo! Didn’t you read the intro to Seamus Heaney’s “Beowfulf”? Irisih is nearly dead, protect your precious heritage!”

    Yes, I have, but let us not sully ChattyDM’s comment column with an argument about the evolution of a countries heritage, and the necessity to let go of the past. =)