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Happy Birthday Skill Challenge

June 22, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Last week, my good friend Dave of Critical Hits and RPGblogger’s Network fame asked me to write a little note for his girlfriend’s (‘e’ of Geeks’ Dream Girl) birthday. Being overly Chatty and prone to a certain dose of creative crazyness, I decided to all out geek and delivered the following Birthday Challenge! Wish Her […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Humor

Inq. of the Week: Quinto vs. Quinto

June 22, 2009 by Bartoneus

A while back, over two years ago it seems, we had an epic showdown Inquisition between Ian McKellen and Ian McKellen…errr, I mean between Gandalf the White and Magneto! The mysterious White Wizard ending up kicking considerable ass in the poll, but it generated some interesting debate about who would actually win in a fight.

Filed Under: Featured, Humor, Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Television Tagged With: fight, gabriel gray, heroes, Inquisition of the Week, star trek, sylar, young spock, zachary quinto

Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-06-20

June 20, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

BSG board game getting Pegasus expansion So You Think You Can Dragonlance DDI: Revenant (DDI Exclsuive) The race so nice you’ll live your life twice. Revenant neatly fixes the problem with DDI exclusive content by using feats from other races: so in a backwards way, they still get updates. Eberron PG art gallery. Unfortunately looks […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits Tagged With: twitter

Friday Chat: Dealing with Storytellers

June 18, 2009 by The Chatty DM

In my discussions with several readers and friends, I noticed that many RPG group are divided into two broad categories of gamers.  One one side you have your min/maxed, Butt kicking power gamers who are on the lookout for the next fight.  On the other you have the psychodrama-loving story-starved  players who only truly become […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: advice, Friday Chat, Player Psychology

4e Lite

June 18, 2009 by Dave

I think you could take 4e and remove the powers system for a “rules-lighter” experience. Here’s roughly how it would go:

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, game design

Random Thoughts Table: Dungeon Crawling through New Monster

June 18, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Goodman Games wants you! With the economy taking a bad turn, many gaming companies are having a hard time getting sufficient volunteers for their various Gen Con events. As some of you may know, I will be among the DMs referees of the Goodman Games Dungeon Crawl Classic tournament held this year at the Indianapolis […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Mining the 4E “Eberron Player’s Guide”

June 17, 2009 by Bartoneus

If you’re an Eberron fan and a 4th Edition player than there’s really no doubt that you’ve picked up the Player’s Guide today or are planning on picking it up in the next few days. I’m going to leave reviewing this book to other people this time, though I do recommend going over to Geek’s Dream Girl and checking out a selection of early questions that she answered about what’s in the book, instead what I’m going to present are the reasons why everyone who doesn’t already own this book is going to want to buy it!

Filed Under: Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, dnd 4e, Dungeons & Dragons, eberron, player's guide, roleplaying game, Roleplaying Games

Primal/Within Chronicles: A Master’s Wrath, Part 2

June 17, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. Plot Exposition break Before jumping in the suspended portal standing 15′ over the 1st floor, the PCs rested for a few minutes and searched the Wizard’s lair.  They found that the mad mage had recently abandoned his work on creating enhanced monsters and started focusing on portals. His various research notes […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Chatty's 2008-2009 campaign, Megadungeon, Primal/Within, Tropes

YouTube Tuesday: Game Fuel Results Vary Edition

June 16, 2009 by Dave

No matter how much Mountain Dew Game Fuel you drink, this may not happen to you. Also, anybody think it’s kind of weird that the woman changes into a male orc? (Via Extralife)

Filed Under: Video Games, YouTube Tuesday Tagged With: commercial, mountain dew, world of warcraft

Primal/Within Chronicles: A Master’s Wrath, Part 1

June 16, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Summer always makes gaming a bit harder.  Getting a full group of players becomes a challenge and usually, by the time June hits, I’m well into my annual DM burnout. Weirdly enough, I don’t feel burned out this year.  This is mostly because our current Primal/Withing campaign is so damn fun. This week I found […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Chatty's 2008-2009 campaign, Primal/Within

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