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Chatty’s Dream Design Project: An Interactive Primer-RPG

Posted by on November 23, 2011 · 5 Comments 

Filed under Geek Stuff, General Musings, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games, Video Games

In which Chatty posts something that’s less than 500 words about what his dream game design project would be like. Hop right in and discuss!

Teach Kids to Game: Nico and Rory’s Stories

Posted by on November 18, 2011 · 5 Comments 

Filed under Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

In which Chatty revisits most of his “Playing with Children” posts and represents them in anthology form to celebrate “Teach Kids to Game” week.

Bedtime Adventures: May-Gee’s Big Test, Part 2

Posted by on September 14, 2011 · 14 Comments 

Filed under Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games

In which Chatty concludes the Bedside story he and his daughter Rory created. A story about a young teenaged magician named May-Gee, a boy and the power of music and linked magic.

Bedtime Adventures: May-Gee’s Big Test, Part 1

Posted by on September 12, 2011 · 10 Comments 

Filed under Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games

In which Chatty goes back to basics and shares the first part of an bedtime interactive story he created with his daughter.

The World of Exercising Experiment: The Mantearing

Posted by on April 2, 2011 · 13 Comments 

Filed under Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits

This is a post about being a geek parent, losing weight and making a game out of it all… it’s closer to Jane MacGonical’s gaming theory than anything RPG related.  But if you are a gamer parent and face (potential) obesity problems, this may be of interest to you. Last fall I was faced with a [...]

Chatty’s 800th: Missed Opportunities and Future Projects

Posted by on May 5, 2010 · 44 Comments 

Filed under blogging, Freelance Writing, General Musings, Musings of the Chatty DM

In this, my 800th post, I take a hard look at Wizards of the Coast’s Heroes of Hesiod, and its missed opportunity to tap into the tremendous potential of helping parents introduce kids to roleplaying. And I put my money where my mouth is . . .

Nico and Rory’s Quest: Meeting the Ice Titan

Posted by on April 2, 2010 · 16 Comments 

Filed under Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM

In which Chatty starts a promising Sword and Wizardy adventure with both his kids. Includes Titans, Druids, Badgers, Horseshoes and jobless super heroes.

Lost Badgers and Kid Guards

Posted by on April 1, 2010 · 20 Comments 

Filed under Freelance Writing, Humor, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

In which Chatty DM comes out of the Full-Spectrum gaming closet and announces great news for Burning Wheel/Mouse Guard fans.

Nico’s Lego RPG: Assault on the Crystal King’s Cave, Part 2

Posted by on December 30, 2009 · 6 Comments 

Filed under Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

See part 1 here. Cave of the Crystal Kings I set up the second and final encounter of our little game by piling books and boxes to create a ‘throne’ for the Crystal King. Chatty: All right,  the king awaits your arrival. Nico: Oh Dad, wait, I’ve got these gems in the Rock Wrecker. Chatty: [...]

Nico's Lego RPG: Assault on the Crystal King's Cave, Part 1

Posted by on December 29, 2009 · 10 Comments 

Filed under Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

I was thinking how long it had been since I played a post-worthy RPG session with my soon-to-be 8 years old son Nico.  A few weeks ago, I made him a Swords and Wizardry PC and we started doing a random dungeon crawl but I made the bad decision of using the 1e DMG dungeon [...]

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