Over at ENWorld, author Ari Marmell laments another change in WotC policy: they are discontinuing their novel lines that do not relate directly to D&D or Magic. A number of posters both on Wizards own boards and on ENWorld have noticed a distinct lack of activity from WotC Staffers on the messageboards in the past […]
Archives for July 2008
Gleemax is dead?
ChattyDM pointed this post out to me: Gleemax Farewell By Randy Buehler Wizards of the Coast has made the decision to pull down its Gleemax social networking site in order to focus on other aspects of our digital initiatives, especially Magic Online and Dungeons & Dragons Insider. We continue to believe that fostering online community […]
Someone Broke the Brain’s Jar
This blog is not about breaking news, others are better suited to do it. Regardless, I got an email a few minutes ago by a fellow reader (confirmed by Propoagandroid) that informed me that Gleemax, Wizards of the Coast’s Social Gamer network, will close down for good in September. While Propagandroid makes a good case […]
Inq. of the Week: Monster Brawl
The Dark Knight dominated its second weekend, but who is surprised by that with competition like the way late X-Files movie sequel and Will Ferrell’s latest movie Step Brothers? It raked in $75 million on its second weekend, which is very impressive and left the second place movie way behind at $30 million. Last week […]
So you wanna write a RPG blog? Part 4: Who?
Last week I initiated a series on starting and running a RPG blog based on my own experiences. It was supposed to be only one post, but I should know better by now, right? I started with the ‘Why‘, then I tackled the ‘How‘ and the ‘What‘ of RPG blogging. Today I’m going to talk […]
Clean up in Aisle 4!
Hey all, Without getting into details (in order not to break my Golden rule of Blogging), the ‘big thing’ I was waiting for didn’t pan out. I’m done with disappointment and I’m moving on to re-organizing my projects. One of the things I’ll be doing over the next few days is to re-tag my whole […]
GenCon Pros: Tell me about True Dungeon
So thanks to an old friend (and Killer DM), it looks like I will have a chance to play in a True Dungeon session. I’ve never been in one before, and it sounds like the session I will be playing in will be in Hardcore mode (whatever that means.) I’ve gone on to the website […]
A Corpse, a Belltower, and Yog-Sothoth: Favorite RPG Moments
Bartoneus and joshx0rfz have started talking about some of their favorite RPG moments, and I was asked to share mine. I tend to GM much more than play, so mine are more about what my players have done than what I’ve done as a player. This story is always the first one that comes to […]
I made it! Musings turns 1 and 400!
Image Credit: Labareda (As a gift to me) On July 24 2007, I wrote the first post of what was to become the biggest, most incredible project I ever tackled! Yes, a few weeks behind Stupid Ranger and Dungeonmastering.com, Musings of the Chatty DM turns one today. What’s more, true to the avatar I created […]
The Most Mega of Men
Must…stop…hyperventilating! They’re coming out with Megaman 9, and some holiest of holies has inspired them to make it a retro game! Sweet mother of Christmas! It looks like it will be available for download for the Wii, 360, and PS3 for whatever amount of money equates to 1000 wii points. You should totally go read […]
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