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Tweaking Classes for Cooler Characters: The Class Mish-Mash Challenge, Part 1

November 4, 2007 by The Chatty DM

One of the core premises of our current campaign is “Play the character you want to play”. As this is possibly our last D&D 3.5 game, we agreed that everyone would play along these lines, irrespective of party roles … if there was to be no rogues or clerics, so be it, a large part […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Crunch, DMing, rule of cool

The Blog's Copyright notice and Open Gaming License Version 1.0a

November 4, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Edited on December 11, 2007 I have been posting some open game content of the D&D game for quite some time now with the usual nonchalance of the internet user. While I’ve been joking about how having a Cease and Desist letter by Wizards would validate this blog’s existence, I don’t actually want any real […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Trip to my FLSG: Selling out in style!

November 3, 2007 by The Chatty DM

We had a great game yesterday and I’ll have a lot to say about it soon. However, I’d like to post Yan’s journal entry 1st so I can build on it instead of playing it safe. So you’ll see it all later this week.Yesterday before the game, I went to my Favorite Local Game Store […]

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

Spambots invasion

November 2, 2007 by The Chatty DM

As you may have noticed, Spambots have started landing on my Four on the Floor Meme post. I don’t intend to do anything other than delete them as they come…. As long as they stay confined to this post, which, oddly enough, is the only post that has a backlink to it. I’d really rather […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

Guest Post: Perspective on Weekend Wizards: A Half-orc's venture into the wild.

November 1, 2007 by The Chatty DM

This is PM’s second post of his Casual Player approach to D&D. Once again, PM’s wry humour entertains us in his tale of confronting his fears about that nasty multi-headed beast that is Role-Playing! Last week, my inner half-orc took a few steps out of the closet and while it was a bit scary out […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Community, The Closet Half Orc, Tropes

Mining Tropes for RPG nuggets: Halloween Special!

October 31, 2007 by The Chatty DM

This is a boring, repeating preface nobody reads anymore. It links to stuff I wrote some time ago that has a vague thematic link to what I’m about to write here… Actually this is a Very D&D specific Trope post. It features a lot of Crunchy bits… like the candy I’m eating right now…The kids […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games, Tropes Tagged With: Crunch, rule of cool, Tropes

Adventure Prep, Session 5: When Frustration leads to Inspiration

October 30, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Okay, so this week’s game is a transition from my adaptation of the Vile Addiction adventure (From Dungeon Magazine #145) to its sequel, Spawn of Sehan from #146. Going in this week’s preparations, I had the following goals: Focus the adventure on the more impatient Butt Kickers like Eric and Math to make up for […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: DMing, fluff, rule of cool

Campaign Fluff Tools

October 29, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Tonight I had planned to write an Adventure Prep post for this week’s game, but I don’t have a lot of time and will do it Tuesday evening. Instead I’m whipping up a short post on some Fluffy tools I use to better create a sense of immersion in our games.One of the walls of […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: DMing, fluff, Tropes

Tweaking Classes for Cooler Characters, Parts Deux

October 28, 2007 by The Chatty DM

As I was gearing up for preparing this week’s game, I reviewed the player’s ‘satisfaction levels’ with their characters. By tackling this early this week, I might be able to address any issues before Friday’s game. For those who follow the antics of my gaming group (either from my logs or from a Yan’s) you […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Crunch, DMing, rule of cool

Tabletops & Tropers: The first stab.

October 27, 2007 by The Chatty DM

I’m having a successful run with my posts on coolness and applying tropes to tabletop RPGs. Today I’d like to start a new series that tackles the actual tropes that generate from Tabletop roleplaying instead of other narrative media. The idea came to me while reading a tabletop RPG debate on the TV Tropes forum. […]

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

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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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