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Kobold Love: Dungeon Diplomacy! Part 1

September 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Ready to dive into the adventure? As posted in the adventure plan, Scene 1 is about the PCs getting a prophecy and facing opposition against ultra conservative elements of the dungeon before venturing forth on the surface world. When the adventure will be published in its final form, there will be a few paragraph that […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: 4e, Project Kobold Love

Random Thoughts Table: Magic NPCs!

September 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

So yeah, as I was chugging along Kobold Love’s 1st scene, I hit a snag with the skill challenge and I needed help ‘debugging it’.  Graham ran to the rescue but when we were done, I had 1/2 a post and very little time left for sleep. So I thought I’d share a pair of […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Link Love

Kobold Love: Interlude 3, Changing gears

September 15, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Yeah, at the rate I’m going Kobold Love will be finished by the time Wizards of the Coast publishes 5th edition. More seriously, I have already committed to run play tests of KL at Draconis (Montreal’s gaming Con) in 3 weeks from now. I have to move a bit faster, without killing myself. So I […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Project Kobold Love

The Life of a Suburban Overlord

September 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Update: I went ahead and created a website for the webcomic.  You can find it here.  I will update it M-W-F until I grow tired of it or something… My friend Pierre bought himself a iPhone 3G, installed a Comic Book app on it and started posting possibly the first Twitter Webcomic.  (He’s going to […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Evil Overlord, TLSO, Tropes

Gaming at the Speed of Nostalgia

September 12, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Wil Wheaton is probably about my age (35) because when I read his recent post about going through his gaming library, I couldn’t help thinking that we loved  the same freaking games! (I checked, he’s 36). As I read his stuff online, I see he’d have made a great gaming buddy. We could have ribbed […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Nostalgia

Kobold Love: Intro, Background and Summary, Part 2

September 11, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Part 1 is here. Introduction. For nearly 40 years, adventurers have been investigating dungeons, killing their inhabitants and making off with their possessions.  To this day, for many, this remains a respectable life.  Others found that it got old and moved on to other forms of adventuring. But what about the dungeon denizens?  Some would […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Epic Laundry Basket: Buried. Happy, but buried.

September 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Projects are exploding.  I’m solicited from multiple sides.  My sideline “job” as a RPG writer is promising. All good! I’m writing the next Kobold Love post slowly and carefully so that I give you a good 1st draft.  I hope to post it this week. Still good. TwittRPG is a success, but I won’t keep […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Chatty’s Twitter RPG (TwittRPG): Beta Test

September 8, 2008 by The Chatty DM

After one of my Twitter followers asked me innocently if I could create a Twitter Game World for them to play in, my brain literally exploded with possibilities… For those who don’t know what Twitter is, it’s mostly a micro-blogging platform where users can post little texts of no more than 140 characters long.  It […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: TwittRPG

Chatty’s Monthly Tips : Intro to Tropes

September 8, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I have a monthly column on Johnn Four’s Roleplaying tips newsletter. This month, I adapted the material I wrote in our Gen Con 2008 GM-FU seminar to introduce his readers to the concept of tropes.  Long time readers will notice that its a re-edition of some of my earlier posts. I’m re-posting it here because […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: roleplayingtips.com, Tropes

Kobold Love: Intro, Background and Summary, Part 1

September 6, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m the type of person who needs to understand a process before tackling it head on. That’s why this post is more about context and theory than actually writing Kobold Love’s first part. Bear with me, it will be worth it. First Impressions are capital When a DM opens up a D&D adventure booklet, the […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: 4e, Project Kobold Love

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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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