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I made it! Musings turns 1 and 400!

July 24, 2008 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

The Most Mega of Men

July 23, 2008 by Bartoneus

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Video Games Tagged With: megaman, megaman 9, videogames

Press “A” Repeatedly to Torture Moloch

July 23, 2008 by Dave

Continuing the spin-up of the hype machine for the Watchmen movie, downloadable episodic Watchmen video games are coming. The developer claims that this will give them more time to actually produce a quality game, unlike the vast majority of movie cash-in tie-in games. The games will follow the adventures of Nite Owl and Rorschach, I’m […]

Filed Under: Comics, Critical Bits, Movies, Video Games Tagged With: watchmen

So you wanna write a RPG blog? Part 3: What?

July 23, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I started this series to share my views on starting and maintaining a RPG blog.  I first explored the “Why” and then the “How” of RPG blogging, both of which applied, more or less, to all blogs. Today I want to delve in the specific aspect of RPG blogging which is the “What” of our […]

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: RPG blog primer

YouTubes of the Week: The Conchords are Flying

July 22, 2008 by Bartoneus

Wait, you might be saying, we’ve got some Bartoneus in your YouTubes of the Week?  Oh noes!  I can’t just sit back and let Dave do all of the work, after all, he did travel quite a bit over the weekend and deserves a break.  Just this once.  Besides, I simply must share something which […]

Filed Under: Music, YouTube Tuesday Tagged With: business time, comedy duo, don't wear the ring, flight of the conchords, frodo, new zealand, the humans are dead, youtube of the week, YouTube Tuesday

So you wanna write a RPG blog? Part 2: How?

July 22, 2008 by The Chatty DM

A few days ago I started a series where I share my views on starting and running a (hopefully successful) RPG-themed blog. Last time I tackled the “Why” which covered the reasons to start a RPG-Blog. Today I’ll tackle the “How”. Blogging Platforms and Hosting: The very first things you have to decide are what […]

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: RPG blog primer

Time to make some Drow and Genasi Swordmages

July 21, 2008 by Dave

In prepration for the launch of the new Living Forgotten Realms RPGA campaign, WotC has posted some preliminary rules for Forgotten Realms characters allowable in the new campaign. In the document you’ll find Drow and Genasi rules (with the Genasi being modular to a number of different elemental heritages) and a playable Swordmage class. It’s […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games

Inquisition of the Week: Bat-sequel

July 21, 2008 by Dave

Last week, in preparation for the release of The Dark Knight, we asked which Batman movie was your favorite. The clear winner, with 59%, is Batman Begins, the reimagining with an all-star cast that lead into The Dark Knight. The previous first Batman movie came in second with 20%, and the first animated Batman movie, […]

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Movies

Chatty’s Questions: Heroes’ Feast

July 21, 2008 by The Chatty DM

One of the philosophy of tabletop gaming I adhere to is Cheetoism, which basically boils down to: We game for the snacks. And also the dice. But mostly, just to hang out with friends and tell tall stories I used to be more hardcore about ‘THE GAME’ until I realized that my gaming friends weren’t […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Oh Noes! Joss Whedon is onto my plans…

July 19, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I know, I know I’m late to the party and almost missed it. I love Joss Whedon, I like Nathan Fillion and I have a schoolboy crush on Felicia Day (She’s Codex from The Guild). Add that Dougie Howser guy (Neil Patrick Harris) and you got the weirdest, geekiest thing ever created (yeah I’m in […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

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