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 […]
New Welcome Page on 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. […]
Friday Chat: Do You Sprinkle Silliness in your Campaigns?
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 […]
The Dungeon Reality Show, Part 3: Lets play Blood Bowl, 4e Style
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 […]
Special Promotion for Dungeonmastering.com’s DM Tools
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 […]
The Dungeon Reality Show, Part 2: Of Sponsors, Ambiance and Lines
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 […]
The Dungeon Reality Show, Part 1: The Implied Setting
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 […]
The Compiled List of One Page Dungeon Entries
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 […]
Friday Chat: Dealing with Instigators
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 […]
Contest is now Closed (for real)
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 […]
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