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Primal/Within Chronicles: Election Day, Part Two

May 19, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. Morning Plenary The second scene of the evening was a plenary where the voters and candidates mingled during a luxurious breakfast set in a specially-built area of Delve #57.  The PCs were there as all other security and support staff. For the next 45-60 minutes, I let my players play out […]

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

Chatty Bits: Deadlands Ideas

May 19, 2009 by The Chatty DM

(This discussion actually happened, I have edited some part to make it into a better story) As I was planning my bi-monthly game, my IM chat windows pops up. RFJ: Question for you Ô chatty one. Chatty: I’ll try to answer Ô (name censored for security purposes) RFJ: Many thanks. If you are a voodoo […]

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

The Contrary Opinion – J.J. Abram’s Star Trek (With Spoilers!)

May 18, 2009 by DarthCthulhu

If one takes the glowing reviews of J.J. Abram’s Star Trek as a representative sample of the populace, most people love this movie. I am not most people.

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

Inq. of the Week: Age of Roleplaying?

May 18, 2009 by Bartoneus

This week I’ve been thinking about something that I don’t believe we have touched on yet, and that’s at what age people start playing RPGs. I’ve heard from quite a few people that are new to D&D with 4th edition from various ages, but even just yesterday I ran my D&D game with a player who had not played since 2nd edition many years ago and is now trying it out again.

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: age, dnd, Dungeons & Dragons, Inquisition of the Week, new players, Roleplaying Games, roleplaying games

Primal/Within Chronicles: Election Day, Part One

May 17, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Previously in Phil’s game: Our Heroes fought some undead captives charged with protecting the Font of Sorrows.  Later, Spurt the Silvered Bulette found them and they managed to subdued it.  Exploring the water temple chaos further, they discovered a passage to the High Priest’s crypt where they fought a giant undead tree and a pair […]

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

ChattyDM.net domain hacked

May 17, 2009 by The Chatty DM

A few days ago, my domain (chattydm,net) was hacked. This attack injected hidden ads in the header of most of the websites I run/share on this domain, including Critical-hits and the RPG Bloggers Network’s forum.  This was most likely done by a hostile script that Corrupted all our php scripts by inserting encrypted data in […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #2

May 17, 2009 by Bartoneus

Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #1 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #2 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #3 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #4 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #5 (coming soon) Demon – The demons get an excellent group of additions in this book.  The Abyssal Eviscerator (lvl 14 […]

Filed Under: Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, dnd 4e, Dungeons & Dragons, monster manual 2, preview, roleplaying games, Roleplaying Games

Review: “The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena” (Xbox 360)

May 17, 2009 by guest

For us folks who are two movies and a video game behind on knowing what the hell is going on, here’s what I can gather: Space Vin Diesel washes up on some shore, and is pissed (naturally). He also looks damn good in a space wife-beater, and has sweet space welding goggles. There’s some silly obligatory one-liners said by our hero, but soon we’re off doing what we REALLY wanted to do: stabbing people in the throat!

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Video Games Tagged With: vin disel, xbox 360

Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-05-16

May 16, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Monk playtest released, Psionic Striker that uses Dex as primary Mearls and Schubert explain the reason for psionic in the Design and Development (sub required) for those who want to whack kobolds with acquisitions, incorporated … Steampunk Beholder Blizzard’s new game to be new IP. Obviously, it must be World of CowboyCraft Does anyone know […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits Tagged With: twitter

Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #1

May 15, 2009 by Bartoneus

Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #1 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #2 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #3 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #4 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #5 (coming soon) Many of you DM’s out there will be going out to get the Monster Manual 2 as soon […]

Filed Under: Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, dnd 4e, Dungeons & Dragons, monster manual 2, preview, roleplaying games, Roleplaying Games

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