I’m taking a micro break from my self imposed blogging hiatus to give you some news. I’ve started sleeping again. Yay! I’ve started writing the D&D 4e adventure I have to deliver next month. I plan to start spending some half-days during weekends to get it out faster. Yay squared! I’ll be playtesting Kobold Love […]
Chatty’s Reruns: Making Memorable NPCs
I’m on Blogging break until the week of December 20. In the meantime, I’m re-posting some of my old texts. In this one (August 29th 2007), you can see me start linking out to fellow bloggers where I write my take on a subject they recently talked about. Not too long after, I started getting […]
Chatty’s Reruns: My craziness and DMing….
Until the week of December 20th, I’ll be posting reruns of older blog posts. One of my earliest Blog posts (August 21st 2007). I wrote this while I was planning last year’s D&D campaign. Its still very actual and defines me as a person in all my life spheres. Its a bit rough around the […]
Half-Season Break
Sometimes life sends you little subtle signals like a string of insomnia-laced nights. When it does… it kinda pays to listen to them. I’ve got a social calendar that’s really filled up until Christmas, (Hell I’m out every evening from Wednesday till Sunday this week). I’ve also an adventure to write that must be delivered […]
Adventure Design: The Importance of Choices
Last night, while lying wide awake and watching the excellent Avatar cartoon series, I started pondering on how important it is for a characters to be shown as having an effect on a story. Avatar is filled to the brims with this. In each show, characters make choices, wrong and right. This ends up affecting […]
I’m sick, Here’s my note!
To whom this may concern Please note that Phil, that you know under the pseudonym of The Chatty DM, hasn’t been blogging much in the last few days as he’s been stricken with a bad case of stress-induced insomnia. He’s focusing his creative writing on his freelance adventure. I told him to exercise more and […]
Mutants and Mastermind: Hacking it so I can play it
Philippe – Always use your powers for Good. Steve Kenson Gen Con 2008 That’s what’s written in the inner cover of my copy of Mutants and Masterminds 2nd ED. I bought it at the Green Ronin booth on the last day at Gen Con last summer and when I saw that the author was behind […]
Bedtime Adventure: Enter Cartain!
This series chronicles my Interactive Storytelling bedtime stories with my kids. Today is a chronicle of the short session I had with Rory, my 5 year old daughter. Chatty: So sweetie, do you want to try making a story like I do with Nico? Rory: Yes Daddy! I’m going to be Cartain the Warrior Princess […]
Chatty’s Break: Game Night Report
We had fun last night playing card games and board games. I needed the distraction and it was really enjoyable. See here for a description of the games we played. We played two shifts of Lord of the Fries and its a fun Card game… Although when played with several players (we were 6 for […]
Chatty’s Break: Board/Card Game Night
Hot on the heels of me declaring myself a burnt out DM, some of the gang has agreed to secretly meet in the depth of the Northern Suburban Jungle of Montreal tonight. As the title subtly hints at, we’re going to play some card games and Board games. Anything but D&D and Magic the Gathering! […]
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