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DM Chronicles: The legend of the Broken Dice, Session 2, Part 1

February 19, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Way back in October, I played a one shot adventure using Paizo’s Pathfinder #1, Burnt Offering. I wrote the session’s log here. We reconvened last Sunday for another session in a day long geekfest of Dim Sum, Anime and D&D. So on Sunday Morning we arrived at PM’s palace of Cats (he has 2) in […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: D&D for Newbies, pathfinder, Teaching RPGs

Finished the format war has

February 19, 2008 by Dave

Toshiba announced today it would stop making HD-DVD equipment. Since they were the primary backer of the format, I think it’s safe to say the HD-DVD format is dead in the water, and the Blu-Ray emerges victorious… …Except I don’t think I know anyone who owns either one, except for those that happen to be […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News

YouTube of the Week: Yakety Trap Edition

February 19, 2008 by Dave

Some Benny Hill jokes… why not? The second one I found via Graham.

Filed Under: Movies, Music, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Television, YouTube Tuesday

The Echo Chamber: 10 worst reasons to blog, Part 2

February 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m dead tired, so I’ll tackle this instead on writing a sub-par Session report of our Pathfinder for newbies game (which went well for all except PM, he sucks at dice, period!) See part 1 here. The List is taken from Geeks are Sexy and posted by Piggybankpie‘s Patrick. Let’s continue, shall we? 6. Busted […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

Happy B’ Day Mr. Washington

February 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

As I can see from the vertiginous drop in readership, this be a long weekend for my American readers. Wikipedia graciously informed me that this holiday is actually to commemorate George Washington’s B’day (do note that American History is not taught up here in Canuck land). Well, enjoy your day off one and all. I’m […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Community

Inq. of the Week: Summer Movies ’08

February 18, 2008 by Bartoneus

Who would have thought that in such a innuendo laden poll that Portable Hole would be the most popular choice?  Thankfully the Rod of Splendor and Holy Avenger tied at second place, but I was still very surprised that the ever vigilant Immovable Rod didn’t attract more people.  This week we’re all pretty excited after seeing the new […]

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Movies Tagged With: batman, Comics, hellboy, indiana jones, iron man, Movies, Narnia, speed racer, summer, the dark knight, wanted

The Echo Chamber: 10 worst reasons to blog, Part 1

February 17, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Totally unrelated to RPGs, this is a pure Meta-blogging post. Still it will be of interest to RPG bloggers. Towards the end of the week, Graham sent me a cool link. It’s a guest post on Geeks are Sexy by Montreal-based blogger Patrick who runs the PiggyBankPie blog/project. This very funny and eerily accurate article […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: Have Time, Will Travel.

February 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about the Bronze Dragon flying toward the sunset. In that post I challenged readers with a stupid question and the winner(s) could chose the subject of a Trope in RPG post. Davetrollkin stepped up first and requested I tackle Time Travel. Since time travel, much like the […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games, Tropes Tagged With: Time Travel, Tropes

Adventure Prep: The Newbie group, an Encore

February 15, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Back in late October I posted an adventure prep article about doing a Demo D&D game for a group mostly made of D&D newbies based on Paizo’s Pathfinder #1 : Burnt Offering. The game was very entertaining, featuring crazy stupid goblins and some of the worse dice-craft I had ever seen in a game. A […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: D&D for Newbies, pathfinder

Let the selling out begin

February 15, 2008 by Dave

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is due out in June. This confirms rumors that Guitar Hero is releasing a few versions focusing around one band per game (though the initial rumor was U2.) Are there really big enough Aerosmith fans who want to buy a whole game of their stuff? Why isn’t this just extra downloadable content […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Video Games Tagged With: aerosmith, guitar hero, rock band

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