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Archives for 2009

2 weeks Notice: Brainstorm Slowdown

October 23, 2009 by The Chatty DM

I’ve thought long and hard how to best present this but the announcement that I was stepping down from managing the RPG Bloggers Network muddles the original intent.  So I’ll do what I do best and I’ll tell you a story. When I came back from Gen Con last year, I had learned that I […]

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Freelance Writing

Preview: “Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons”

October 22, 2009 by Dave

In previous editions, metallic dragons were good aligned, meaning that a DM would have to either create reasons that that the dragons were violently opposed to the PCs, or just ignore the “Always Lawful Good” and similar alignments. This default assumption has changed a bit, tossing many of the metallic dragons squarely into the Unaligned category. Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons provides a variety of motivations for metallic dragons and gives you some new metallics for good measure.

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, draconomicon, dragons

Tales of Draconis, Part 4 and Epilogue

October 22, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Mutant Future, GM by Walkerp Mutant Future is that weird, weird game that came out of labyrinth Lord publisher Goblinoid Game.  Contrary to Labyrinth, Mutant Future (MF) is not so much a retro-clone of Gamma Worlds (or it’s predecessor Metamorphosis Alpha) but rather a new game built on […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Tales of Draconis, Part 3

October 21, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See parts 1 and 2 here and here. Seminars, The Tricks of the Successful 4e DM, English There’s a French expression I coined one day to describe how different my brother and I were.   It goes ‘Nous sommes comme le jour et la pluie” which translates less poetically into “We are like day and […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Burning Wheel, Mouseguard, seminar

RPG Bloggers Network: My side of the Story

October 20, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Some of you may have heard the news, my friends and I have stepped down from the RPGbloggers’ board of fake directors and we are offering to ‘hand out’ the network to the one who presents us a proposal we like best. If you didn’t know it already, last year before Gen Con, Dave Chalker, […]

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

YouTube Tuesday: Obi-Wan Uncensored Edition

October 19, 2009 by Dave

NSFW language. Real quick but great.

Filed Under: Humor, Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, YouTube Tuesday Tagged With: star wars

Tales from Draconis, Part 2

October 19, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Draconis is a Montreal Gaming convention.  See part 1 here. Saturday was a big day for me, I had 2 games to GM for, 2 seminars and a game scheduled (as a player) in the evening. Saved by the Grell, English Saved by the Grell was an adventure written my John Richter based on my […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Draconis, Seminars

Tales from Draconis, Part 1

October 19, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Draconis is an annual Gaming Convention held in Montreal.  Run by a group of dedicated gamers, the con attracts a little less than 100 people to play mostly RPGs, some board/card games and attend seminars.  Montreal is a very Indie-friendly city and this year the con goers were served with some top notch guest such […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Gaming with Kids, Gaming with Teenagers

4th Power Project: Skills

October 18, 2009 by Dave

I’ve got some core classes (which are pending some revisions), some at-will powers, and some other powers. Next step is relatively simple (but not without some thought): skills. While skills are not trivial in 4e, they play a much greater role in modern games, and have a greater variety. This is not just because of […]

Filed Under: Critical Threats, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th power, 4th power project, skills

Preview & Review: “Primal Power”

October 18, 2009 by Bartoneus

Late last week, with a copy of Primal Power in hand, I decided to give people a chance to preview the book by asking questions that I would answer on Twitter as well as at our page on Facebook. Below I’ll share most of the questions and answers from those, but first I’d like to offer a quick review of the book.

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, 4th Edition, D&D, dnd, Dungeons and Dragons, preview, primal power, Reviews, Roleplaying Games, roleplaying games

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