I’m taking a micro break from my self imposed blogging hiatus to give you some news. I’ve started sleeping again. Yay! I’ve started writing the D&D 4e adventure I have to deliver next month. I plan to start spending some half-days during weekends to get it out faster. Yay squared! I’ll be playtesting Kobold Love […]
Archives for 2008
Chatty’s Reruns: Making Memorable NPCs
I’m on Blogging break until the week of December 20. In the meantime, I’m re-posting some of my old texts. In this one (August 29th 2007), you can see me start linking out to fellow bloggers where I write my take on a subject they recently talked about. Not too long after, I started getting […]
YouTube Tuesday: AHA! Edition
Darth Vader gets some creative dialogue, taken from elsewhere.
Equivalent Exchange
icv2 reports that Full Metal Alchemist will be getting a second series. Sequel series that picks up after the movie? Re-done version that sticks closer to the manga (ala Hellsing)? The adventures of the protagonist pair’s alter-egos in our world during the early 30’s? The article doesn’t say, but I’m skeptical that anything will be […]
Chatty’s Reruns: My craziness and DMing….
Until the week of December 20th, I’ll be posting reruns of older blog posts. One of my earliest Blog posts (August 21st 2007). I wrote this while I was planning last year’s D&D campaign. Its still very actual and defines me as a person in all my life spheres. Its a bit rough around the […]
Inq. of the Week: Settings for Adventure
Results of the last question about what setting you want to see next, and we ask what settings you’ve actually played in.
Take a trip down to Fabletown
Fables, my vote for the best ongoing comic of the past five years, has been approved by ABC as a pilot. This project has really high potential, but I fear could easily suffer from a serious watering down that would make the show revolve around a “fable of the week” concept at the expense of […]
Half-Season Break
Sometimes life sends you little subtle signals like a string of insomnia-laced nights. When it does… it kinda pays to listen to them. I’ve got a social calendar that’s really filled up until Christmas, (Hell I’m out every evening from Wednesday till Sunday this week). I’ve also an adventure to write that must be delivered […]
Adventure Design: The Importance of Choices
Last night, while lying wide awake and watching the excellent Avatar cartoon series, I started pondering on how important it is for a characters to be shown as having an effect on a story. Avatar is filled to the brims with this. In each show, characters make choices, wrong and right. This ends up affecting […]
Bioshock’s Lead Designer on the Triumph of the Nerd
PAX 08 'Ken Levine Keynote' Ken Levine’s keynote speech from the latest Penny Arcade Expo is fantastic, so I’ve embedded it here. He talks extensively about what it was like growing up as a nerd in the 70’s, and talks extensively about finding a gaming group. Not only does he share much of how I […]
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