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The Old School Job, Part 2: The Lich-Sorceress’ Release

May 19, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty recounts the story generated by his new Leverage RPG fantasy hack, much to the consternation of catholic nuns and easily offended souls.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Freelance Writing, Game Hacks & Content, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

The Old School Job, Part 1: The Temple-Brothel of Monte-Cookus

May 18, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty finally reveals what new RPG hack he’s been working on for so long and starts telling the story of his latest play test game in a mythical fantasy city.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Freelance Writing, Game Hacks & Content, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games, Uncategorized Tagged With: Cortex Plus, Hack, Leverage RPG, Old School Job

Chatty in Washington: Highlights of DC Gameday

May 17, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty exits his blog silence to share the best tidbits of his Washington DC trip to attend a gaming con.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Blowback, dc gameday, Mouse Guard, Washington

Chatty’s Adventure Scaffold #1 : Words with Fiends

April 20, 2011 by The Chatty DM

Where Chatty makes his triumphant return by being all cryptic about what he did these last few weeks. At least, you’ll get a cool adventure plan for your reading troubles.

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: adventure design, Adventure Plan, Adventure Scaffold, gming advice, Mouseburning, old school

The World of Exercising Experiment: The Mantearing

April 2, 2011 by The Chatty DM

This is a post about being a geek parent, losing weight and making a game out of it all… it’s closer to Jane MacGonical’s gaming theory than anything RPG related.  But if you are a gamer parent and face (potential) obesity problems, this may be of interest to you. Last fall I was faced with a […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits Tagged With: dance dance revolution, Exercise, Gamer Parent, gaming with children, Gaming with Kids, Just Dance, wii, world of warcraft

Chatty’s PaxEast Highlights: 3 days of Fun Among Friends

March 15, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty miraculously fits his highlights of a spectacular convention in only one 1500 words post. A record some will say!

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Boston, fiasco, Gabe, games, gamma world, Jane MacGonigal, leverage, magic the gathering, Mouse Guard, Munckin, pax east 2011, Tycho

Mouseburning It: Hacking a Skill System, Small Press Style

February 18, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty finally shares part of what his small press pilgrimage taught him and describes his new method for dealing with skill checks in classic RPGs like D&D (easily adaptable to most other classic games too)

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Apocalypse World, Burning Empires, Burning Wheel, D&D, d&d 4e, d20, Failure, Failure is fun, Leverage RPG, Mouse Guard, Skill, Skill Challenge

The Dungeon Reality Show, D&D Essentials Edition, Part 2

February 3, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty concludes his play report of the Dungeon Reality Show: Sunderpeak Temple. Includes lizard-skin clothes, trashy priestesses, one-roll skill challenges and Beads of Awesomeness ’nuff said. Come and read!

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits Tagged With: d&d 4e, Demos, Dungeon Reality Show, one-shot, Say Yes, Teaching RPGs

The Dungeon Reality Show, D&D Essentials Edition, Part 1

February 1, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty starts relating how his recent Dungeon Reality Show was such a huge success and starts his reconciliation with D&D 4e.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits Tagged With: d&d 4e, Demos, Dungeon Reality Show, one-shot, Say Yes, Teaching RPGs

Chatty’s Mailbag: Launching your own RPG

January 28, 2011 by The Chatty DM

Earlier this week I got an email question that made me ponder the realities of publishing one’s own RPG in this already flooded niche market. Here’s our friend’s question: Hey Phil, I’m finishing up development of my first RPG system, and plan to publish it on RPGnow.com in a couple month’s time. I have been […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Freelance Writing, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: game design, Independent Publishing, New Game, PDF, Tactical RPG

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  • The Chatty DM

    The Chatty DM is the "nom de plume" of gamer geek Philippe-Antoine Menard. He has been a GM for over 40 years. An award-winning RPG blogger, game designer, and scriptwriter at Ubisoft. He squats a corner of Critical Hits he affectionately calls "Musings of the Chatty DM." (Email Phil or follow him on Twitter.)

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