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DM Chronicles 17: This is the end, Fiend

May 11, 2008 by The Chatty DM

It’s done, our D&D campaign is over and so is my playing D&D 3.5. Sigh*… The game went exceedingly well, better than I had hoped.The players were clever enough to navigate the minefield that was a hall full of Demon Lord avatars and ambassadors and live! It went so well that we actually managed to […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: 3.5e, Chatty's 2007-2008 campaign

Of Judging and Other Stuff

May 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

No planned posts today as I’ll be spending the free time before tonight’s D&D game continuing the judging of the 10 word adventure contest. I got some news from Paizo and we may get more prizes as the request got sent to the marketing department (no pressure here guys!). Keep your fingers crossed. I added […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM

Adventure Prep: Grand Finale, World Saved? Roll Credits!

May 7, 2008 by The Chatty DM

There we are, this is going to be the last Adventure Prep post of the current campaign. A lot of things were said since that September 6th night where I pondered how to salvage a campaign that started on the wrong foot. Now I’m planning how to end it. Last game, the PCs met with […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM

Chatty’s Debates: Paizo vs WotC

May 7, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Let’s try something new. I’ve noticed lately that we have quite a few articulate and passionate people over here. Its also clear from the passions that rise around 4e that there is a lot to get out of our collective system. So instead of writing an opinion piece this morning, here is a question to […]

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

Odds and Ends

May 6, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I just finished compiling the list of contest entries and I posted the whole list over here in the forums.  I’m not going to write another article tonight, I’m pretty much spent.  Here’s a few tidbits. On the Contest There are 96 participants in the 10 word adventure contest.  I lost count after 300, but […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM

Chatty on 4e: Schooled by the Old Combat School.

May 6, 2008 by The Chatty DM

As I mentioned in my Retro-Stupid post, I feel that 4e is knowingly taking a step toward embracing the aspect of the early versions of the game that were fun while doing away with some of their unfun legacy (fun and unfun being completely subjective concepts; I think it is at the heart of many […]

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

10 Word Contest Update: We got Prizes!

May 5, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Hey there everyone! Last Friday I sent some email feelers to three gaming companies to try to get some more prizes for the contest (as things were I had 1 Booster box of the Dungeons of Dread D&D mini game or a 15$ Gift Certificate for DriveThruRPG.com). Last night, Ed Healy of Kobold Quarterly answered […]

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

Chatty’s Review: Travel the World of Broadsword and kill stuff!

May 4, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Last week I tackled a 5$ ‘pocket’ Sword & Sorcery RPG called Broadsword co-written by my good friend (that I have yet to met IRL) Jeff Meija, AKA The Evil DM. The game is part of the 1PG product line that offers low cost, pick up RPGs whose rules fit on just one page. This […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

It’s over for the Habs

May 4, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m not even going to try to analyze the Canadiens’ performance, I’m not enough of an armchair general for that. Suffice it to say that if the Flyers managed to beat the Habs four games in a row, chances are they were better than our Home Team. Well good luck to Brière, Biron and that […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM

Ookay… what do they sell again?

May 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Found via Geeknews. As far as I can make it, Wonderhowto.com is a genuine ‘How to’ video archive (with ads)… Well no one will fault me for not meeting my PG-13 borderline R rated standards. So I ask you… how un-believable is she? I’m more inclined to believe other types of geek girls (note: That […]

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

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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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