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2 weeks Notice: Brainstorm Slowdown

October 23, 2009 by The Chatty DM

I’ve thought long and hard how to best present this but the announcement that I was stepping down from managing the RPG Bloggers Network muddles the original intent.  So I’ll do what I do best and I’ll tell you a story. When I came back from Gen Con last year, I had learned that I […]

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Freelance Writing

RPG Bloggers Network: My side of the Story

October 20, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Some of you may have heard the news, my friends and I have stepped down from the RPGbloggers’ board of fake directors and we are offering to ‘hand out’ the network to the one who presents us a proposal we like best. If you didn’t know it already, last year before Gen Con, Dave Chalker, […]

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

Touched with Fire, the 700th post.

September 7, 2009 by The Chatty DM

This post will get intensely personal, while overall positive, it will dwell on some of my personal issues of the last year. Feel free to skip Way back in November, I wrote a somewhat somber post celebrating my 500th post. At the time, I didn’t realize that I was diving full speed into severe depression, […]

Filed Under: blogging, Freelance Writing, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Bipolar Disorder, Milestone

Chatty’s Gen Con Plans

August 6, 2009 by The Chatty DM

There’s an unexpected  hole in my Guest post schedule, my Gen Con prep is finally done and I miss talking to you all, so I thought I’d share my convention plans. This is going to be my second attendance in as many years.  Last time I came to the Con thinking I was a nobody […]

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Gen Con 2009

Guest Posters Wanted: Gen Con Hiatus

July 27, 2009 by The Chatty DM

As I said in my last post, the work needed to finish the One-Page Dungeon Codex and the  preparation leading to Gen Con are going to take most of my free time over the next 2 weeks. Like last year, I’d like to keep Musings active with new content.  So that’s why I’m sending a […]

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New Welcome Page on Chatty DM

May 29, 2009 by The Chatty DM

With the Ennies coming up, I finally wrote a welcome page for the blog. It’s a very short introduction to the blog and gives the reader a selection of links to follow as appetizers of the blog’s content. You can find it here. Please have a look and tell me if it needs anything more. […]

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Chatty on the Net

April 9, 2009 by The Chatty DM

It seems I see people talking about my alter ego a lot lately.  Not that I mind at all, I mean who doesn’t like to see his name or alias turn up stuff on Google? Well this week, I’ve made an appearance on two websites. First, last Tuesday night I was invited to participate in […]

Filed Under: blogging, Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

Open Game Table RPG Blog Anthology

April 2, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Yesterday, as I was leaving home to go and have lunch my good friend TheMaze I saw a big envelope in my mailbox. The sender was Jonathan Jacob, author of The Core Mechanic.  My heart jumped!  It was my contributor’s copy of Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs. This absolutely incredible project […]

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Chatty’s Megadungeon: Building the Font of Sorrows

March 17, 2009 by The Chatty DM

A word of warning to my players, this post will reveal the first dungeon of our next campaign. First up, a big hello to Grognards and other readers coming from the Old School side to check things out. I may talk about D&D 4e a lot, but I do love dungeons a lot! All right, […]

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Megadungeon, one page dungeon

Chatty DM Presents: Stargazer’s World

February 7, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Last week’s post where I presented Zach’s RPG Blog II was a frank success, particularly among the blogging crowd.  I guess that means I can continue! This week I want to present you a blog straight out of gaming-friendly Germany. I give you Stargazer’s World. In the world of its author (who goes by the […]

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