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DM Chronicles, Session 12: The Great Game! Part 1

March 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I guess I had to complain about attendance in order to get a full house last Friday as everyone showed up! Yay! Franky and Stef showed up first and I got to clean the floor with them in a few Magic game with my rebel and Elf decks. Then Yan showed up and we teamed […]

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

First (Level) Impressions: D&D 4e

March 3, 2008 by Dave

(To those of you coming in via search: this article was written after the D&D XP convention, which featured only a limited preview of 4e. This is not a comprehensive review of 4e. –ed) With four games under my belt, along with talking to some of the designers and developers at length, I’m ready to […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Roleplaying Games

D&D XP Interview: Andy Collins and Scott Rouse (Part 1)

March 3, 2008 by Dave

(This is the first part of our very long interview with Andy Collins and Scott “The Rouse”. In this installment, we cover how they came to Wizards and what their job entails, along with a few other personal matters.) Critical-Hits: How did you get started at Wizards? Andy Collins: I started about 13 years ago […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Roleplaying Games

Inq. of the Week: Systems Operational

March 3, 2008 by Bartoneus

Dave’s poll from last week asked what size of dice you prefer, the d20 came in at a huge 29% with the rare and exotic d12 in a surprising second with 27%. The entire spread is actually in descending order with the d10 at 18%, d8 at 12%, d6 at 5%, and d4 at 5% […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: D&D, dice, Inquisition of the Week, mac, pc

Slowing down… Spring break… and Akismet finally activated.

March 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

My kids are starting the primary school equivalent of spring break (i.e no school, but no partying in Florida either) so I decided to slow down a bit on the blog this week. Expect a one or two-part post on last Friday’s game tonight and maybe tomorrow but not much else this week. I could […]

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

D&D XP: Random Crunchy Bits

March 1, 2008 by Dave

Danny and I are back from the D&D XP. I decided not to pay for the flaky hotel wi-fi to be able to do updates from the show floor. We played three games today: the first Living Forgotten Realms adventure,”Escape from Sembia” (which essentially ended in the second encounter as a TPK), press dungeon delve […]

Filed Under: News, Roleplaying Games

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