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A year gone by…

December 31, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Wow… that’s been quite a year. 2008 marked my first full year as a RPG blogger. It was also a year filled with amazing achievements and some humbling realizations. I intially wanted to review last year’s objectives but after  agonizing over that post for 2 days I decided to drop it and take another tack. […]

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Chatty’s Feed issues : Resolved?

December 14, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Hi there, I’m taking a short break from writing my D&D 4e adventure (things are going well, I’m 20% done) and my self imposed Blogging Hiatus to address an issue with my main feed. For the past several months, my feedburner feed has been periodically broken, linking directly to my website instead of providing a […]

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The Reflex….Saves!

December 11, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m taking a micro break from my self imposed blogging hiatus to give you some news. I’ve started sleeping again.  Yay! I’ve started writing the D&D 4e adventure I have to deliver next month.  I plan to start spending some half-days during weekends to get it out faster. Yay squared! I’ll be playtesting Kobold Love […]

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Happy Turkeyday!

November 27, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Last year I had written a huge post about something and then I was wondering why no one was commenting.  Then it dawned on me that a huge chunk of my readers were away from thier computer screens. As many posts point out already on the RPG blogsphere today, the US celebrates Thanksgiving today. Even […]

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Work less, Partner with People and Make it! (RPG Blog Edition)

November 20, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Jonhathan, a fellow RPG Blogger network member sent us an impassioned message on the network’s mailing list earlier this week. He was exhorting the virtues of making partnerships to increase our success as bloggers and RPG enthusiasts. He was sharing with us what he got from this Copyblogger article about how all the work we […]

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RPG Bloggers Digest and Creative Overdrive Output

November 17, 2008 by The Chatty DM

For those who missed it, Dave and I started posting weekly highlights of the RPG posts that appeared on the RPG Blogger network. You can see my first post here, and Dave’s picks here. It basically highlights whatever got our attention during our alternating weeks as Editors of the network.  Have a look its well […]

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The long Journey, 500th post!

November 14, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Musings of the Chatty DM started a little over 1 year ago, with a bad colour scheme and a 34 year old nerd with limited editorial and web design skills. The first 200 posts were about finding my voice, the next 200 were those that established me as a credible blogger and building an incredible […]

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Subscibe to Comments!

October 31, 2008 by The Chatty DM

It’s been a long time coming but I finally figured out a bug that prevented me from activating the Subscribe to Comment plugin (I stopped getting notifications on posts I authored.. which is 99%  of the posts here). Now, dear reader, you can now receive notification of any comment thread you are interested in.  Just […]

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Keeping up with the Hyperactive & Chatty DM.

September 29, 2008 by The Chatty DM

If you want to keep up with my numerous projects, without having to jump all over my no less numerous websites, I invite you to subscribe to my most excellent (cough) content on your windows bookmarks or your favorite RSS reader (I like Google Reader myself). Please follow these awesome links: Chatty Studios: My new […]

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I am a Writer…

September 26, 2008 by The Chatty DM

On the way back from Gen Con, my mind shifted into a seldom before attained creative overdrive (I’m going through another one today it seems). During my flights back I created Chatty Studios, Kobold Love and I wrote a post about being a writer in the RPG industry. I submitted that text to Bob Younce, […]

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