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D&D Character Workshop: The Stubborn Cleric

June 17, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m too tired to write anything serious (I have the plan for my next trope post about fridges, I’ll tackle it this week) so I thought I’d share my 1st D&D 4e character concept. (Run!, Chatty wants to tell you about his character) Okay, I made a Lawful Good Dwarven Cleric. Str 13, Con 14, […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Chatty’s Review: The 4e Dungeon Master’s Guide

June 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

If you want a very good (albeit mostly positive) review of the 4e Core books, look no further than Martin Ralya’s. I don’t think I can beat it in terms of depth, style and entertaining values, but I’ll do my best to share my thoughts on the book in my own rambling style. The latest […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e

First Crop of 4e Tools

June 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I wrote my monthly column for Johnn Four’s Roleplaying Tips newsletter last night. It was a 1500 word article on teaching a RPG to new players, I’ll repost it here as soon as Johnn puts it on his site. That also means that I have no meaty article for here this morning… time for some […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

I Don’t do Paladins Really Well…

June 14, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I just finished reading/browsing the D&D 4e Core books. As I let my impressions simmer and fuse into a hopefully unified set of impressions for my reviews, a multitude of D&D souvenirs come to the surface. One thought that surfaced this morning was that Paladins have the shortest lifespans in my games. You see, I […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Chatty on 4e: Exploration vs Competence / Fun vs Satisfaction!

June 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’ve mentioned in older posts that D&D 4e seemed to go back to the roots of the game for simplicity of Game Prep and monster stats. So far this has been true. At worse, game stats for level 30 creatures take one full column of the Monster Manual. Such baddies are usually limited to 4-5 […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e

With Fame Comes Opposition! Meet G.I. Mike!

June 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

My rise to power and global domination of the bloggsphere continues! My Chatty DM clone is slowly winning everyone over with his niceness, cross-pollination and other pseudo-socio-fluffy constructs. Witness the number of times the Head Gnome linked to me in today’s post and tell me I’m not right! Heck, we even managed to beat the […]

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

Story Contest results

June 11, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m slowly catching up on things. A few weeks ago, I launched a contest to get people to submit Characterization tips to help me and my group get better tools to create better integrated adventuring parties. Well I had about 40 tips from 20 people. Quite a nice turnout given that characterization is not the […]

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

Chatty’s Debate: How far can a DM go?

June 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Okay… I may be swamped but there are limits to what I can tolerate in other DMs. Heather’s been comparing her experience with her Game Day DMs and what she is reading in the DMG (she is a newbie RPGer and wants to try her hand at DMing. However as she reads, she is getting […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

I’m swamped! Obligatory Link cop-out!

June 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I can’t seem to find time to read the Core books and I’d like to take a stab at reviewing them soon. I have to write my monthly column for Roleplayingtips.com. Plus I have to do the draw for the Story/characterization contest. I also have to do some maintenance on the blog, add a few […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

D&D 4e Questions

June 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Heather from The Things They Still Carry has a few questions remaining from her first D&D 4e games. Here they are: I spent some time flipping through some of the Core set today as well as reading some of the DM Guide for the Keep adventure. My reading answered some questions and presented more. There […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, q&a

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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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