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Chatty’s Questions: Heroes’ Feast

July 21, 2008 by The Chatty DM

One of the philosophy of tabletop gaming I adhere to is Cheetoism, which basically boils down to: We game for the snacks. And also the dice. But mostly, just to hang out with friends and tell tall stories I used to be more hardcore about ‘THE GAME’ until I realized that my gaming friends weren’t […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Oh Noes! Joss Whedon is onto my plans…

July 19, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I know, I know I’m late to the party and almost missed it. I love Joss Whedon, I like Nathan Fillion and I have a schoolboy crush on Felicia Day (She’s Codex from The Guild). Add that Dougie Howser guy (Neil Patrick Harris) and you got the weirdest, geekiest thing ever created (yeah I’m in […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

One Sentence NPC Update

July 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I haven’t forgotten about you.  The One Sentence contest closed last week end. I formatted all entries posted on the blog and sent them to Johnn Four for processing. As soon as I hear from him, I’ll let you know. We’ll post the edited entries here and on Johnn’s site (I think). P.S. Did ya […]

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Comment issues: Defensio gets the Boot, Akismet called back in

July 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’ve been having incresing troubles with Defensio spamming my fellow blogger’s comments and Trackbacks. Since the last thing I want is to create a hassle for readers and delay their comments, I’ve booted Defensio out and reactivated Akismet. If any of you are experimenting similar (or other) commenting issues let me know at chattydm@chattydm.net. Sorry […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

So you wanna write a RPG Blog? Part 1: Why?

July 17, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Blogging is a strange beast. There are literally tens of millions of blogs on the internet. I’m sure most are inactive or are nothing more than Bot-driven post-stealing Google Ads strewn smears but it’s still a very impressive number. Even in the restricted niche of RPG blogs there seems to be scores of blogs (my […]

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: RPG blog primer

Moderates have fun too!

July 17, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Okay so 2 days ago I posted a rant against the mere concept of the Tyranny of Fun. Now not only was I surprised to get some feedback from Mike Mearls (giving yours truly a fanboi moment) but I was absolutely astounded at the civil, dynamic exchange of point of views.  Out of the post […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

I’m finally done!

July 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

After nearly 3 weeks of procrastination, World of Warcrafting and some serious intense writing, I’m finally done with preparing my half of the GM-Fu Gen Con Seminar. I wrote about 12-14 pages of tips and tricks on Tropes and Player types motivations. A lot of it is original stuff (as I felt bad recycling too […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

The Tyranny of Fun…is a Load of Pure Unbridled BS!

July 15, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m starting to get annoyed at all the hate being spewed about the Tyranny of Fun, whatever the fuck that expression means. I won’t link to any of them as I find that a rational discourse on this is nigh impossible seeing how emotionnaly charged the atmosphere around that screwed up concept is. Google it […]

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

Email issues: Deactivating Subscriptions

July 14, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’ve e-mailing issues with the blog lately. There are a some comments that I’m not getting notification for since I activated the “Subscribe to this post” plugin. Have others been having issues with emails from the blog? I might not re-instate the plugin.  I encourage you to follow comment on the following feed: http://chattydm.net/comments/feed/ Sorry […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Chatty’s Questions: What’s your Dice Fetish?

July 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m almost done with my Gen Con Seminar prep, I should be done by Tuesday and come back with meatier fare soon after.  Here’s another content light post! I started reading a pretty good webcomic called Weregeek (thanks Sandrinnad!). In one strip, the author addresses the Dice Fetish trope were one player freaks out when […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, 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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