No, honest to god, this is NOT yet another post about how miserable I feel! Quite the contrary. I occasionally talk about my mental health here for 2 reasons. One, it is therapeutic to put it out there for others to see… it forces me to deal with it actively. Two, I know many other […]
Supers Carnival Roundup!
Hello, I’m Chatty DM, your host for last month’s RPG Blog Carnival. It was quite a month for Super Heroic RPG blog goodness let me tell you. So here’s my digest! Things started out with my good friend Greywulf where he picked some Supers Tropes (Alternate Origins, Costumes, Group names, Base of Operations, etc) and […]
Chatty’s Finds: Kids, Castle and Caves
During my daily luminotherapy sessions, I travel the net for some blog goodies. Through Jeff’s Gameblog and through James’s Lamentation of the Flame Princess, I found a link to an outfit called Brave Halfling Production that currently supports some of the Retro-Clone games out there (i.e. New RPGs inspired by the rulesets of the Original […]
Chatty’s Inter-Review: Yan on Forgotten Heroes
I decided a few weeks ago that weekend posts would be experimental in nature. This is where I would test out new concepts or potential series, a writing workbench so to speak. This week, I’m posting a review of a product a friend of mine read and I interviewed him on it. I’m calling this […]
Subscibe to Comments!
It’s been a long time coming but I finally figured out a bug that prevented me from activating the Subscribe to Comment plugin (I stopped getting notifications on posts I authored.. which is 99% of the posts here). Now, dear reader, you can now receive notification of any comment thread you are interested in. Just […]
Afterschool Trope Special: Fill Up the Nighmare Mobile
What, two Trope posts in the same week? Why not? It’s been ages since I wrote any of them, and this is Halloween after all. With a satisfying ‘thunk’ Tragak the barbarian sheared the Orc Shaman’s head, sending it flying in the room’s dank, dark corner. As he was looting the body, he failed to […]
Give Feedback to your GM… and live! Part 2.
In part 1, I discussed about players giving feedback (both good and bad) to DMs in such a way to make it more useful and to limit the damage of criticism. Today I want to talk directly to the GMs who, while craving feedback, aren’t always that ready to get it. Having to prep, run […]
Kobold Love Playtesting Posted
Last night I posted the last part of Kobold Love’s playtesting report from the Draconis gaming con. (For those not in the know, Kobold Love is a long winded project where I tackle writing a D&D 4e adventure directly on a website, open to comments and feedback. Other readers are also invited to tackle this […]
Afterschool Trope Post: Holy Super Heroic Fantasy Batman!
This month, I am the custodian of the RPGbloggers Monthly Carnival which is about Super Heroes. I thought it would be a perfect occasion to do a new Trope post about mixing some Super Heroes in my D&D Kool Aid! Trope: A narrative shortcut taken in a story that the audience will recognize and have […]
Give Feedback to your GM… and live! Part 1.
(This post was written in a Coffeehouse in Switzerland, how cool is that?) On the last day of Gen Con, I was sitting in a Restaurant (The Ram if I recall, I had the Salmon, delicious), surrounded by my friends from Critical-Hits and Stupid Ranger. We were all dead tired, living off our energy reserves […]
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