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Pathfinder #5 preview: Crawl that Dungeon!

February 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Tonight features a double post because I’m taking off tomorrow night… It’s Valentine’s Day! (No I still haven’t received #4 if you were wondering) The fifth Installment of Paizo’s Pathfinder series, Sins of the Savios sets out to recreate the high-level massive dungeon crawl experience of classic D&D adventures. It features a multi-part dungeon based […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: pathfinder, Rise of the Runelords

DM Chronicles, Session 11: When the stars are right, we get Planar Awesomeness! Part 3

February 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here and part 2 here… this is the last part I swear… (I’ll have spent more time writing this session log than actually playing it!) The PCs followed the Wolf lord to meet with Kharasutra’s General. While dodging troupes of Armanites (Centaur Demons, a shoutout to my buddy Cayzle) and buzzing Chasme […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: 3.5e, Chatty's 2007-2008 campaign, Expedition to the Demonweb Pits Hack, planescape, Ptolus, Tropes

The World is Full of Dungeons

February 13, 2008 by Bartoneus

We’ve recently been having some long discussions that essentially started as, “OMG Dungeons and Dragons 4th Ed. is just WoW!!!11!” I was very surprised when I was reading the 4th Ed. preview books I saw an acknowledgement of the influences of recent games like World of Warcraft on the tabletop genre. Dave’s number one response […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Editorial, Featured, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, Dungeons and Dragons, world of warcraft, WoW

DM Chronicles, Session 11: When the stars are right… Planar Awesomeness! Part 2.

February 12, 2008 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. Also, please note that while the adventure is technically Expedition to the Demonweb Pits, about 90% of what happened last session was homegrown. Do not think of being able to replay this without some serious work! Seeing an overwhelming horde of arachnids attack the Elven compound of Iritidil’s House, all characters […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: 3.5e, Chatty's 2007-2008 campaign, Expedition to the Demonweb Pits Hack, planescape, Ptolus

YouTube of the Week: Better than a Big Gameboy Edition

February 12, 2008 by Dave

More human Tetris! Be sure to listen to the music and sounds.

Filed Under: Video Games, YouTube Tuesday

DM Chronicles, Session 11: When the stars are right… Planar Awesomeness! Part 1.

February 11, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Previously in Phil’s game… Our heroes investigate a series of Drow raids on Elven interests in Ptolus. Re-visiting familiar (under)grounds again, they meet and vanquish numerous Dark Elves and recover interesting documents. Meeting with Rule of Three again leads our heroes to obtain a cryptic Prophecy that talks of Demon slaying weapons, gates, keys and […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: 3.5e, Chatty's 2007-2008 campaign, Expedition to the Demonweb Pits Hack, planescape, Ptolus, Tropes

Inq. of the Week: Save vs. Rod/Staff/Wand

February 11, 2008 by Dave

Just like me, 38% of you will be starting a new campaign when D&D fourth edition comes out. 24% people are going to stay with 3.5, though not necessarily for reasons that are anti-4e. Those who don’t play D&D and those who will do whatever the DM decides (including several of the players in my […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games

Chatty’s Out of the Box #001 : Discriminating Taste!

February 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I should have spent the evening writing my DM log, I know, but the Webcomic bug came back and bit me hard. So I got myself a rightfully owned copy of Comic Book Creator 2 and I started experimenting a bit more. (Once more with Graham’s technical expertise and critical eye). Since my blog was […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Uncategorized Tagged With: Chatty's Out of the Box

Chatty's Out of the Box #001 : Discriminating Taste!

February 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I should have spent the evening writing my DM log, I know, but the Webcomic bug came back and bit me hard. So I got myself a rightfully owned copy of Comic Book Creator 2 and I started experimenting a bit more. (Once more with Graham’s technical expertise and critical eye). Since my blog was […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Uncategorized Tagged With: Chatty's Out of the Box

Review: “Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight” DVD

February 10, 2008 by Dave

When the announcement was first made, I was excited about the prospect of a Dragonlance animated movie. As the voice cast was announced, I was even more excited. Some big names were there- Kiefer as Raistlin!- which made me think they were sparing no expense in making a cherished novel from my teenage years into […]

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: dragonlance

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