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Archives for 2008

YouTube of the Week: Are You Still There? Edition

January 22, 2008 by Dave

A day in the life a Gun Turret from Portal. The longer it goes on, the funnier it gets.

Filed Under: Video Games, YouTube Tuesday

Adventure Prep: Strapping it all together to get it going good!

January 21, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This post is part of a series that covers the preparations I do for my current D&D campaign. You can follow it here and the various DM logs I wrote here. Our next D&D game is Friday night. Weeee! This time we’ll be missing our Archer as Franky will be working during the evening (he’s […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: DMing, Tropes

Inq. of the Week: An Issue of Class

January 21, 2008 by Bartoneus

Apparently the thing most people want for Rock Band is to be able to have a Jam Mode where you can create, play, and share your own songs. “More Cowbell!” came in second, so I have no doubts there will be a cowbell mod for the microphone very soon (if there isn’t one already). We […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, classes, D&D, Dungeons and Dragons

Welcome new Readers!

January 21, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Post Publication Edit: As today’s traffic is already rising sharply, My good friend, and sometime blog contributor, PM reminded me that I should tell you that it’s not impossible the site goes down a few times, each for a few minutes, during the day. The Blog’s template is a bit buggy and some php scripts […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM

I might be in the wrong buisness here…

January 20, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Yup… as predictable as a specialist role player’s choice of character, this trimester’s Magic the Gathering Pre-release tournament was upon us this weekend. I originally started writing this at 7h00 am this morning before going to the tournament, but my wife ran out of coffee. I therefore put on my husband Superhero suit and went […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Uncategorized Tagged With: magic the gathering

Movie Review: Cloverfield

January 19, 2008 by Bartoneus

Possibly the best way to start this review is to say: go see this movie. Cloverfield is produced by J.J. Abrams of Lost and Alias fame, and also the director of the upcoming new Star Trek movie. The inspiration for Cloverfield is that America has never really had an equivalent to a Godzilla-style story; Abrams […]

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: Cloverfield, JJ Abrams, Lost, movie, Reviews

Chatty’s Review: Silvervine, Character Generation

January 19, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This post is part of a series that tackles the reading review of a yet unpublished RPG called Silvervine. Please note that this game is still in development, my review is part of the pre-playtest feedback. Last time I tackled the games 1st chapter and the mixed feelings I got as a first impression. Now […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Getting back in the game!

January 17, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Along with other RPG GMing bloggers, I was contacted by Role-playing Tips guru, Johnn Four this week to contribute to his next Newsletter. Not wanting to miss the exposition of being read by so many people, I happily accepted. Heck he even offered to let us use our submission as a post for our blog! […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: DMing

D&D Miniatures 2.0 Rules Released

January 17, 2008 by Dave

Wizards posted them yesterday. Many were hoping that this would preview a lot of 4E combat changes, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. Nonetheless, there were a few changes that stood out to me from the previous version of the DDM rules: No more morale! Previously, a big part of the game was […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: alignment, D&D, D&D miniatures, DDM, miniatures, Newest Critical Hits

Feeding the Geek

January 17, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Short micro non-RPG geek post. Many of the people who read blogs do so through Feed readers (there are a ton out there, I use Google Reader myself, plugged in my iGoogle page). When this blog gets accessed by this feed here it’s considered to have 1 subscriber. (BTW I’m aware that image are weirdly […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Community

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