Last Friday we started our Clockwork D&D campaign. We spent about one hour completing the Party Template I wrote about here then we played a 2 scenes mini-adventure I dubbed ‘RPM’. 🙂 Here’s the 1st game report of what I hope will be yet another awesome campaign. Dramatis Persona Nar-Beth: Female Dwarven Druid from a […]
Archives for 2010
Critical Bits for the week ending 2010-01-09
RT @obsidianportal: Congrats to @cwgabriel & other Pursuit of Destiny players. PoD is our Featured Campaign of 2009! # RT @funagaingames: The new fancy version of Twilight Struggle is out: http://bit.ly/5R2Vt5 # Figuring Out Doctor Who's Lingering Mysteries http://io9.com/5439138/ # RT @dmyax: Puzzle your players: Scrolls of Destiny Vol. 2 now available http://aweber.com/b/28ZXf # Discovered […]
Cooperative Play, Cooperative Characters
Be a team player! Make characters that are fluid enough to work with others at the table.
Friday Chat: Zen and the Art of Dodging Dead Ends
A few weeks before X-mas, I mentioned on that “When failure is not an option in a scene, don’t roll any dice”. I think I coined the expression first when I Jedi Mind tricked my Mutant Future GM at a local con into saving me a roll that would likely derail the game if I […]
Game Review: Left 4 Dead 2
Late last year when the game Left 4 Dead was released by Valve for X-Box 360, our friend (and occasional writer here at CH) Joshx0rfz wanted to post a short and sweet review of it saying simply, “It’s as fun as a shotgun blast to the face!” Today I’d like to discuss it in detail and address some of the concerns I had about the game.
On 4e Adventures: Part 1, Third Parties and the Freelance Writer
I’m a very instinctive type of guy, and lately my gut feeling has told me that some 3rd party publishers of 4e adventures have left the boat (or are thinking about doing it). For instance, I learned yesterday that Joseph Goodman of Goodman Games has been musing online about adding Pathfinder support to his DCC […]
2009 Retrospective on 4e: The Reality of the Relationship
The honeymoon with 4e is over. 4e and I spent our days in bed cooing softly in one another’s ear, and now it’s time to take stock of the situation. It’s time to codify my biggest gripes about 4e.
Blog Merge: Gut Reaction and Expectations
(Boy am I glad not to post this on April 1st) During my scientific training I was thought never to keep a punch till the end if I wasn’t writing a story. So here it is, I’m seriously considering merging Musings of the Chatty DM into the structure of my friend Dave’s Critical Hits* while […]
Changing the Way We Think About Published Adventures
Published adventures are an area that has always, always bugged me. That’s one big reason that I never really got into running them, and even today, I’m much more likely to hack them apart and steal what I want then run them out of the book. Part of that is I’ve felt like they don’t do their job quite well enough: communicate everything you need to know to run the adventure with minimal prep time and minimal disruptions while running it.
Inq. of the Week: So This Is A New Year
As we roll into the new year, there are two important questions here. One is an open-ended question, to which you will have to answer in a full comment: what are some of your predictions for the coming year? The other is multiple choice, and I assure you, of vast importance.
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