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My tools of the trade, Part 2

January 11, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Back in October I posted about the tools and props I used in my D&D games. Well since my game is ready and good to go, I took a few more pictures of how I organize my things to have the smoothest of Crunchy game sessions. My DMing Corner: I have a recently renovated room […]

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

"A Band of Orcs" Wants to Encounter You

January 10, 2008 by Dave

Everybody’s favorite Orcish-themed death/thrash metal band, A Band of Orcs, is holding a contest to see who can write the most brutal encounter involving a band of orcs for D&D. Check it out because the deadline is soon- January 21st. Players in my current D&D game will find that this nicely coincides with an encounter […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Music, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: a band of orcs, contest, D&D, d20 system, death metal, Music

The 4e OGL: Joining forces with my Nemesis

January 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

A lot of digital ink has flowed on the subject of the changes to the way the 4e OGL will be handled. I’ve chimed in on Critical Hits and Omnius’ blog about it. The debate rages on and will for some time and I don’t want to spend any more on this than needed (It’s […]

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

Holy Crap: Darth Vader and Yoda in Soul Calibur IV

January 9, 2008 by Dave

Kotaku reports that Darth Vader will appear as a special character in Soul Calibur IV for PS3, and Yoda will appear in the Xbox 360 version. Soul Calibur is my favorite fighting game franchise, with a history of strange guest starring characters (Spawn and Link, anyone?) I was ready to give the fourth installment a […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Video Games Tagged With: darth vader, soul calibur, star wars, yoda

What Awaits my Players…

January 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I finished my game prep early enough to drop by here and make another mini-post. This time it’s a preview of what awaits my players and is also a showcase of what you can do with the D&D battlemaps, tiles and miniatures. First we have our heroes leaving the Styx’ Oarsman, a newly opened inn […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Mini-Link: Iron Heroes Total Fanboi cop-out from an actual post

January 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

That title reminds me that I still haven’t received my Pathfinder #4 yet… I need to drop Paizo a line… The US Postal Service is, shall we say, not the swiftest there is. I already mentioned there might not be a post tonight, well this one is, sort of. It’s just not as meaty as […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: mini-post

New Search feature being playtested

January 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Following Greywulf’s glowing review, I signed up for Lijit’s search service which offers full blog search as well as for those of my blogroll and other feeds I added to it. Fell free to play with it and comment on how it turns out. If you prefer the original WordPress one, just tell me (and […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

Review: Freezepop "Future Future Future Perfect"

January 8, 2008 by Dave

Freezepop isn’t a household band name, but gamers have a greater chance of recognizing their brand of catchy synthpop. The band has contributed songs to a few video games (most notably for bonus tracks in Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 2, and Rock Band– one of the members of the band works for Harmonix.) They also […]

Filed Under: Music, Reviews Tagged With: freezepop, guitar hero, indie music, Reviews, synthpop

(Not so)Mini-Crunch: Magic loot by any other name.

January 8, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m fresh back from the Gym, proud in my willpower to have resisted the pull of World of Warcraft and the Blog to take care of me first…. I’m also quite aware of the WotC announcement about the way they plan to handle the next version of the OGL and it’s associated brand license (the […]

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

Today's 4e Announcement and What It Means For You

January 8, 2008 by Dave

Pretty big announcement from WotC, as covered by ENWorld, about the future of the licensing agreement formerly known as the d20 License. Most of it won’t matter to the casual D&D player. But here’s some tidbits that might be important (and keep in mind, everything is subject to change, this is all interpretation): Until 2009, […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games

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