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Chatty on Creativity: Muting the Judge and the What If Exercise.

March 14, 2012 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty shares his favourite creativity tricks and manages to create the core of both a campaign arc and setting…. which turns out to be eerily familiar.

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Creativity

Castle Death! A Dead Simple RPG for Kids and Parents, Part 3

March 7, 2012 by The Chatty DM

In which Nico and Chatty conclude their first session of Castle Death, meeting Pit Trap Mac and dealing with an Ogre noble who’s a stickler for etiquette.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Castle Death, fantasy, gaming with children, Gaming with Kids

Castle Death! A Dead Simple RPG for Kids and Parents, Part 2

March 6, 2012 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty and his son Nico start exploring Castle Death and make up new rules as they go along, creating a unique introductory roleplaying experience.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Castle Death, fantasy, gaming with children, Gaming with Kids

Castle Death! A Dead Simple RPG for Kids and Parents, Part 1

February 29, 2012 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty and Nico get ready to play a a Kid friendly RPG they co-develop as they play it. Beware of Castle Death!

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Castle Death, fantasy, gaming with children, Gaming with Kids

Collateral Damage Issue #1: Electric Ninja Boogaloo, Part 2

February 23, 2012 by The Chatty DM

Join us dear readers in a thrill ride where dangers and catastrophe are a dime a dozen. Witness the birth of a new Superhero team in the heart of the City of Angels. Collateral Damage is here to stay! Take a special behind-the-scenes tour here and don’t miss Part 1 of this exciting new series! Excelsior!

Filed Under: Actual Play, Campaign Logs, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Collateral Damage, marvel, marvel heroic roleplaying, Marvel RPG, MRH, Super Heroes

Collateral Damage Issue #1: Electric Ninja Boogaloo, Part 1

February 21, 2012 by The Chatty DM

Welcome true believers to a series describing the antics of the newest super hero team: Collateral Damage! I hope you’ve caught our special pre-launch issue where we showed you the nitty-gritty aspects of our creation process. Now get ready form pure raw action and laughs as only the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game can offer you!

Filed Under: Actual Play, Campaign Logs, Comics, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Collateral Damage, marvel, marvel heroic roleplaying, Marvel RPG, MRH, Super Heroes

Collateral Damage #0: The Making of a New (Marvel RPG) Series

February 17, 2012 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty invites you to the writer’s room of his new Marvel Heroic Roleplaying campaign with four of his buddies. It’s been too long!

Filed Under: Actual Play, Adventure Prep, Campaign Logs, Comics, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Collateral Damage, marvel, marvel heroic roleplaying, Marvel RPG, MRH, Super Heroes

Chatty’s Fort Wayne Adventures: Tales from the Elemental Chaos, Part 1

February 10, 2012 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty starts spinning his first of many tales about the games he played over at the Dungeon and Dragons Experience 2 provinces and 5 states away from home.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: D&D, d&d 4e, dragon magazine, dungeon magazine, Level 0, Level 0 characters, Temple of the Weeping Goddess

Our D&D Greatest Hits: Chatty’s Advanced Dungeons and Dragons

January 19, 2012 by The Chatty DM

I was very intrigued with Mike Mearls’ vision of creating a “D&D’s Greatest Hits”. It evokes a plethora of images about modular designs and piecemeal “build your own game” elements that inspires the writer and buding game designer in me. This gave me an idea for a series of post here at Critical Hits. I thought it would be interesting if we shared our five DMing Greatest Hits for some or all of the versions of D&D we played as dungeon masters.

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: AD&D, adnd, D&D, dnd, dndnext, Greatest Hits

Chatty’s 2nd Anniversary at Critical-Hits: The Enthusiastic Storyteller

January 11, 2012 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty realizes he’s been blogging at this here website for two whole years… and then indulges in good old fashion navel gazing for a few more hundred words.

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Enthusiasm, Freelance Writing, stories, story, Writing

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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.)

    Email: chattydm@critical-hits.comWeb: https://critical-hits.com//category/chattydm/

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