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The Stages of a RPG Team's Development, Part 5: Performing

October 3, 2007 by The Chatty DM

This series compares the development of a RPG gaming group with that of a workplace team through the concepts of the 4-stages of team development.  This installment talks about the blissful stage of a performing group. Your players spontaneously discuss, in-character no less, the approach to a problem you sprung on them… and the agree […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: The 4 stages

Closed for audit purposes…

October 2, 2007 by The Chatty DM

I’m hosting a pair of scientists for a quality audit of my lab on Wednesday and Thursday (I’m a Quality Officer in a Genomics service lab). I’m more or less focused on this so I have little creative juices for this here blog. But never fear dear reader, let’s see what excellent stuff I browsed […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: DMing

New Milestone!!!

October 2, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: Mille Bornes! (What? You never played that game???) This here blog thingnie hit the 100 unique visitor’s in a day mark for the 1st time yesterday at midnight. And that was before Martin’s shout-out this morning (Thanks so much, it means a lot to me)! I might as well spend a few lines […]

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

Guess Post: A Fey's Journal, 2nd Entry. Part 2

October 2, 2007 by The Chatty DM

This is the final part of Yan’s second Player log. See the 1st part here. At the shop everything went smoothly. Our shadier-looking members went in, pretending to be from another town and explaining they wanted to extend the market of this drug called Green Welcome. They gave the shop keeper a large bribe and […]

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

Big Fluff, Small Crunch

October 1, 2007 by The Chatty DM

I’m still working on the Big Eyes, Small Mouth-Pokemon game for my 5 year-old son. I also read Dante’s and Martin’s excellent post on Improvising. I’m taking notes here! I bought 2 starters of The Pokemon Trading figure Game. My son whips my butt on a consistent basis and he loves those spinning figurines. I […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: DMing, fluff, Gaming with Kids

Guess Post: A Fey's Journal, 2nd Entry. Part 1

October 1, 2007 by The Chatty DM

This is Yan’s second Player log. He tells the story of our game from his PC’s perspective. That’s why I now leave out plot points and details form my DM logs. Yan is an up and coming storyteller and it’s fun to see him flex his creative muscles on a new venture. Thanks for fighting […]

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

Off for my trimestrial cardboard crack fix

September 30, 2007 by The Chatty DM

It’s 6h00 on a Sunday Morning. My 5-year old son is watching Captain Flamingo on the Tube. I’m looking at the blog’s stats ,still somewhat bemused to have at least 58 unique visitors day in day out (I need to go to California, apparently they dig me over there!). I’m also touching up on typos […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology Tagged With: magic the gathering

Meet the players!: Franky

September 29, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Three weeks ago, I sent a questionnaires to my 5 D&D players. I finally got all 5 responses (in exchange for 750 xp each) and I’m posting the 3rd one today, along with my usual editorial comments. See here and here for previous postings. What character do you play in our current D&D campaign? (Name, […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Community, Player Profile

DM Chronicles, Session 3: Of Pools and Crashes

September 29, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: WotC D&D Miniature Game After having skipped a week from our usual bi-monthly game, I was really looking forward for this week’s. One of our players, Stef, had to stay home because his Wife was away and he was with the kids. So I offered to move the game over there. So I […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Game Hacks & Content, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 3.5e, Chatty's 2007-2008 campaign, DMing

Fluff done right: Paizo's Pathfinder first impressions

September 28, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Like a lot of Dungeon magazine subscribers, it’s with shock and apprehension that I learned about WotC’s revocation of the Dungeon and Dragon magazine licenses. For those who don’t know yet, Paizo, the publisher of the two magazines, created a new D&D 3.5 compatible adventure magazine (they just don’t say it out loud) called Pathfinder […]

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

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    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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