Via The Gamerdome Here’s the GSL and the SRD As promised, the SRD is only a 65 page long list of references defined in the Core book whose names you can use freely (baring that you abide to the GSL) but that you can’t redefine or print the text of. So you can put Kobold […]
D&D Character Workshop: The Stubborn Cleric
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, […]
Chatty’s Review: The 4e Dungeon Master’s Guide
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 […]
First Crop of 4e Tools
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 […]
I Don’t do Paladins Really Well…
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 […]
Chatty on 4e: Exploration vs Competence / Fun vs Satisfaction!
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 […]
With Fame Comes Opposition! Meet G.I. Mike!
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 […]
Story Contest results
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 […]
Chatty’s Debate: How far can a DM go?
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 […]
I’m swamped! Obligatory Link cop-out!
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 […]
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