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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gears of Ruin: Party Creation Session Template
We start the new year with a new D&D 4e campaign. I spoke a little bit about this new D&D 4e clockwork campaign we were starting. After having read the first chapter of the Dungeon Master Guide 2, Mouse Guard and having heard about several games where character generation is part of the shared game […]
Chatty’s Goals for 2010
Happy new year people! New year, new ‘decade’ (hush, pedants) and possibly new pants! As is becoming a tradition on Musings, this is when I look over last year’s goals and set new ones. I say goals and not resolutions because resolutions are all about ‘have to, and should, and ought to” and I have […]
Chatty’s Year 2009 and the Importance of the Tribe
Yes, Yet another Year End Post. I’m sure the RPGbloggers network‘s first page must crumble under that Echo Chamber effect. But I don’t quite care about that. 🙂 The Year in Review Oh man what a year. Last year you could taste the the first signs of the rapid unraveling of my mind in my […]
Nico’s Lego RPG: Assault on the Crystal King’s Cave, Part 2
See part 1 here. Cave of the Crystal Kings I set up the second and final encounter of our little game by piling books and boxes to create a ‘throne’ for the Crystal King. Chatty: All right, the king awaits your arrival. Nico: Oh Dad, wait, I’ve got these gems in the Rock Wrecker. Chatty: […]
Nico’s Lego RPG: Assault on the Crystal King’s Cave, Part 1
I was thinking how long it had been since I played a post-worthy RPG session with my soon-to-be 8 years old son Nico. A few weeks ago, I made him a Swords and Wizardry PC and we started doing a random dungeon crawl but I made the bad decision of using the 1e DMG dungeon […]
Merry Chirstmas and Happy Holidays
It’s X-mas morning and my family is doing geeky things. My daughter asked to play on the CBC kids website right after watching the Disney Parade. My son and wife are playing Wii Sports Resort and I’m just checking a few things online before joining back the fun. I just thought I’d take a few […]
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