This past week saw the release of the Eberron Campaign Guide. While I’ve followed Eberron since its acceptance into the D&D campaign setting contest but I have yet to run or play in any kind of Eberron campaign. Some of the resistance to playing it before has been a dislike among some of my group to steampunk. While Eberron is more nuanced than simply a steampunk setting, there’s some clear resistance to the idea.
Archives for July 2009
Guest Posters Wanted: Gen Con Hiatus
As I said in my last post, the work needed to finish the One-Page Dungeon Codex and the preparation leading to Gen Con are going to take most of my free time over the next 2 weeks. Like last year, I’d like to keep Musings active with new content. So that’s why I’m sending a […]
Tales of the City Within, Session 3: The Final Chapter
Disclamer: I take several narrative liberties in my game reports. While I write what actually happens, I often adapt dialog elements or change some details to make for a better narrative… also, beer tends to fog things up a little. Keeping up Appearances This session was to be the last of our gaming ‘season’. This […]
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-07-25
The story on Evony (hint: it’s not good) Jack Vance glowingly profiled in New York Times (via Robin D. Laws) Attention Citizens! The @AlphaComplex and @Friend_Computer are on Twitter. Anyone questioning the duplication is a Traitor. First photo of new Doctor and Companion (via @nerdvana) Goodman Games wants to make your campaign an offer it […]
Ennies Voting is Open: Vote for Critical Hits!
Voting has opened in the Ennie Awards and we are nominated for Best Website. We’re up against tough competition: every single one of the other nominees puts out a site that I quite enjoy and visit regularly, as well as all being run by great people whom I consider friends (even the ones I’ve never […]
Drunken D&D Adventure Design
In a few weeks I’ll land in Indianapolis where 6 friends will be waiting to start our annual Drunken D&D game, a happy mix of D&D and collegiate drinking games. I’ll be the DM of this event and that means that I need to write an adventure for it. I’ll be spending a few nights […]
Chatty’s Pick for the Best Website Ennies
As many of you know, today marks the first day that you can vote at the Ennies. As some of you many also know, I entered Musings of the Chatty DM for the second time this year and I didn’t get nominated. In fact, last year, I entered the contest as a dare with a […]
New Feature: Guide to 4e Accessories
Today, we announce the completion of a new feature: a Guide to 4e Accessories, for DMs and players who just want more stuff at their table. You’ll find 3rd party options for tracking conditions, power cards, mapping, iPhones, and electronic aids. This joins our other features: Skill Challenges Character Class Reference Character Race Reference Guide […]
Robin Laws Revisited: The Complete Series
This post bring together all the articles I wrote about Robin Laws of Good Game Mastering from January 2008 to July 2009. For those who haven’t heard or seen it, this book, published in 1999, gives advice on being a Game Master (irrespective of game systems). The series was aimed at revisiting it in the […]
Robin Laws Revisited, Part 9: Conclusions (His and Mine)
Back in January 2008, I purchased a PDF called Robin Laws’ of Good Game Mastering over at the Steve Jackson Games’ PDF store. I had heard of that book from many GMs and I had seen it at my favorite game store. More importantly however, I had recently read (and been blown away by) his […]
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