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Archives for March 2008

Inq. of the Mid-Week: The Golden Age

March 19, 2008 by Bartoneus

Woops!  Apparently Monday came and went while I was lost somewhere within the house, and so I bring you a mid-week Inquisition.  The 3 people that voted in last week’s poll since Monday, you’re welcome!  Last week’s involved Dave’s rampant reading of excellent webcomics and making terrible family-puns, where he asked which of the classic […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week Tagged With: Inquisition of the Week, kirby, link, samus, smash bros.

This Just in… Pathfinder to remain 3.5

March 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

From the Paizo Newswire: Pathfinder™ to continue under the 3.5 rules. Tuesday, March 19th, 2008 Paizo Publishing today unveiled the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, a tabletop fantasy roleplaying game that will serve as the anchor for the company’s popular line of Pathfinder adventures, sourcebooks, and campaigns. Today marks the beginning of a year-long Open Playtest of […]

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

DM Chronicles, Session 13: Of Moons and Xanathos Railroads, Part 1

March 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This post is part of a series that chronicles our current D&D 3.5 campaign. To say that last Friday’s game wasn’t intense would be a bald faced lie… it just wasn’t intense for the reasons I planned for. This time around I won’t go into details of our actual story. First because it get so […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: 3.5e, Chatty's 2007-2008 campaign, Tropes

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

March 18, 2008 by Dave

RIP, Mr. Clarke. That leaves Ray Bradbury the last surviving Science Fiction grandmaster…

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

FL1: Panhandle of the Lost

March 18, 2008 by Dave

DM: Alright, so tonight’s module is a solo thing, but you’ll meet up with other characters later. What are you playing? Player: I’ve got this Grad Student/Game Designer. Oh, and he just took a level of Web Designer for the extra income score. DM: That’ll come in handy for this one. OK, so: “You’ve been […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Roleplaying Games

YouTube of the Week: Saul Wars Edition

March 18, 2008 by Dave

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

Not Dead… but not all that well either…

March 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This post is going to get a bit personal feel free to skip… 🙂 As you may have noticed, the flow of posts has slowed down in the last few weeks. I’m dealing with a certain amount of stress-induced anxiety related to both my job and the blog (The family and my physical health are […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM

Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: The Crowning Moment of a Character

March 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

As I reading through the recent changes on TVtropes.org, I stumbled upon a Trope whose application to RPGs is as simple as it is brilliant: Crowning Moment Of Awesome The moment in a show when a character does something for which they will be remembered forever, winning for them the eternal loyalty of fans. While […]

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

Nerd News Roundup Thingie-majig

March 15, 2008 by Bartoneus

I would like to apologize for our absence over the last few days, I have been busy with moving and working on our new house, while Dave is on a quick vacation to Florida. We’ve neglected you, and for that there will be many red-hot pokers, you can count on that! I’ve been meaning to […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: kobolds, links, mike mearls, Musings of the Chatty DM, star wars

Ending a Campaign: a Few Tips

March 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

It’s no secret that with the advent of the next edition of D&D, I have endings on the mind. While I’ve still got to make my final decision to adopt 4e upon reading the new Core books over the summer, chances are we are going to go the 4e way. I know many others are […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Theme week:Endings

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