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Primal/Within Chronicles: Say Yes and have Fun! Part 1

May 31, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Previously in Chatty’s game… Our heroes are hired by a mercenary outfit to protect the lives of four City Within candidate in a one-day campaign/election of the city’s newest burg.  Thought wheeling and dealings, criss-crossed agendas, monsters gone wild and delusional candidates, our heroes are caught in this electoral storm and try their best to […]

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

New Welcome Page on Chatty DM

May 29, 2009 by The Chatty DM

With the Ennies coming up, I finally wrote a welcome page for the blog. It’s a very short introduction to the blog and gives the reader a selection of links to follow as appetizers of the blog’s content. You can find it here. Please have a look and tell me if it needs anything more. […]

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM

Friday Chat: Do You Sprinkle Silliness in your Campaigns?

May 29, 2009 by The Chatty DM

The Bloodbowl 4e post with the actual rules is taking longer than planned to finish and the Ennies application process deadline came and bit me in the a$$.   Instead of posting part 4 of my Dungeon Reality Show this morning, I’m posting another of those Friday questions.  I’ll post the DRS one as soon as […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: advice, Discussions, DMing, Friday Chat, Theme week, Tropes

The Dungeon Reality Show, Part 3: Lets play Blood Bowl, 4e Style

May 28, 2009 by The Chatty DM

In Part 1 of this series, I described the implied setting of the Dungeon Reality Show (DRS) In Part 2, I described a few of the tricks I used when I DMed such an event. Today, I’ll start sharing a recent example of a DRS game using the Bloodbowl game.  My proposed adventure will differ […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, 4e/Bloodbowl mashup, Dungeon Reality Show, Theme week

Special Promotion for Dungeonmastering.com’s DM Tools

May 27, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Get a free copy of Open Game Table! (Here’s a message from my good friend Yax of Dungeonmastering.com, It’s a special promotion for his DM Tools service.  Do note that I get a commission on any new membership.  This will help me pay for Gen Con and finance some prelimenary work to become a full-time […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

The Dungeon Reality Show, Part 2: Of Sponsors, Ambiance and Lines

May 27, 2009 by The Chatty DM

In part 1, I presented the implied setting of my Dungeon Reality Show (DRS)concept. Today, I’ll describe some of the gimmicks I use as a DM when I play a DRS game. The Set Whenever I throw the PCs into the Plane of Games, I always make sure to describe the barely contained chaos that […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, 4e/Bloodbowl mashup, Dungeon Reality Show, Theme week

The Dungeon Reality Show, Part 1: The Implied Setting

May 26, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Over the weekend, my good friend Eric Maziade posted his Actual Play report of a game where I was a guest DM.  He had invited me over last week to participate in his geek Birthday Party.  We had decided that we would surprise his players with my D&D 4e/Bloodbowl mash up that I had created […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e/Bloodbowl mashup, Dungeon Reality Show, Theme week

The Compiled List of One Page Dungeon Entries

May 25, 2009 by The Chatty DM

I know that many of you have clamored to see all the entries for the awesomely popular One-Page Dungeon Contest that concluded last week. However, before we can even think of publishing them (and more importantly how and how many), we need to go through each and every entry and judge them. However, I thought […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: contest, one page dungeon

Friday Chat: Dealing with Instigators

May 21, 2009 by The Chatty DM

About a year ago, I wrote about player types and motivations.  It’s a subject that’s very near my DMing heart because I believe that the recipe of a good campaign lies in understanding your players and catering to their specific needs as much as you cater to yours in your game. Lately, I’ve been musing […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: advice, Friday Chat, Player Psychology

Contest is now Closed (for real)

May 21, 2009 by The Chatty DM

The One-Page dungeon contest is now closed.  We have passed the 100 entries point making this an awesomely successful endeavor.  What started as a crazy idea to get the word our on the template has lead to a deluge of entries. Of course, we’ll need some time to look them over and judge them.  There’s […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

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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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