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I, Demon: The Awakening

May 17, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This series is going to be a diary-like re-telling of the d20 World of Darkness game I’ll be playing once a month. It’s going to be GMed by my buddy Franky. Way back when, we started the game but it was left aside for some time. We’re kick starting it again and this post is […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Chatty as a Player, McWoD

Mike Mearl’s D&D 4e Elemental Evil Campaign

May 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Recently Mike Mearls invited people to follow his 1st ‘for fun’ D&D 4e campaign. It’s very loosely based on Gary’s Temple of Elemental Evil, it gives a very good feel of what 4e will be about and it’s all played in one hour sessions. I don’t think reading this will change anyone’s idea on 4e […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Ten Words to Victory, Winners and Runner Ups All Together!

May 15, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Well it’s done, what started as a lunch-time idea exploded in the biggest thing we ever tackled here. With the help of fellow bloggers Dave The Game and Jeff Rients we whittled down 21 pages of entries filled with several hundreds of 10 word adventure concepts. As indicated, the entries were so numerous and so […]

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

Help him Rebrand Himself, Win a 4e Book

May 15, 2008 by The Chatty DM

My buddy Bob Younce of The DMs Blog (at dndreview.com) is trying to rebrand his blog to better reflect what it’s going to be about. He seeks help from the community and he’s offering a prize. I’d call him a copycat, if I wasn’t one myself with the 10 word adventure contest (Results out tonight!). […]

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM

Chatty’s Review: D&D 4e’s Keep on the Shadowfell

May 14, 2008 by The Chatty DM

As mentioned this morning, I was able to read a copy of D&D’s 1st 4e adventure, Keep on the Shadowfell, thanks to ZeStuff. Now it’s time for the review! Hurrah! I’ll take the spoiler-free approach (though I may slip a bit in places) as I guess that a lot of readers will want to play […]

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

Chatty’s New Partner

May 14, 2008 by The Chatty DM

In the next few weeks, you’ll see a few changes in the Ad setup of the blog. After meeting with fellow Quebec businessman Pierre of ZeStuff.com, we’ve agreed on trying a partnership for a while and see how it works out for each of us. I’m really excited about this! ZeStuff is one cool Geek […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: The Truman Mirror Tomato Surprise!

May 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This is a series that explores Tropes and tries to apply them in RPGs. Have a look here, I wrote over 20 of these so far. So Sorry for the double feed, something happened when I posted this the 1st time and 1/2 the text was eaten! One of the things I’ve seen GMs struggle […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games, Tropes

Ods and Ends, part Deux

May 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Hey! We made it! We topped the 300 RSS subcribers milestone! I say we, because while I write the site’s content, it really only runs as smoothly with Graham’s technical assistance (whose apparently saving the internet one site at a time) and all of your participation as readers, Stumblers and Commenters. Woot! I’ve got my […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Monte Cook Un-Retires and Joins Pathfinder RPG team.

May 12, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Well not so much out of retirement as he’s becoming a rules consultant for the Pathfinder RPG. What was it you said about Paizo NOT being a Google-emulate? 🙂 Monte Cook Joins the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game™ Team Co-creator of 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons® to act as Rules Consultant Paizo Publishing®, LLC today announced that […]

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

Ding! The Stew is Ready. Hope You Like Gnomes.

May 12, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Have a look at the newest GM-focused blog. It’s Gnome Stew and it just launched. I really liked the Short Sessions: How to Cope by Walt Icantspellhislastnamejustnow as it plays directly in our gaming challenges. I wish a great big welcome to the GnomeGMs: Martin Ralya John Arcadian (yay!) Patrick Benson Walt Ciechanowski (I was […]

Filed Under: 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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