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Chatty’s Quest : A Twitter Adventure

December 2, 2011 by The Chatty DM

Follow the adventures of TextChatty as he tries to survive his first day in his apartment. A Twitter text-based game played a few weeks back.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Featured, Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Parsely games, text-based games, twitter, twitterquest

Chatty’s Dream Design Project: An Interactive Primer-RPG

November 23, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty posts something that’s less than 500 words about what his dream game design project would be like. Hop right in and discuss!

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games, Video Games Tagged With: game design, gaming with children, Gaming with Kids, iPad, lady blackbird, Tablet PCs

Chatty’s “Get it Together You Bum” game, V 2.0

June 17, 2011 by The Chatty DM

This is a revised version of a post I published on our sister Tumblr site: Roll.  As I realize it’s usefulness, I decided to move it here. A few days ago I bought Chuck Wendig’s “Confession of a Penmonkey” eBook.  I’m loving it so far, funny and insightful stuff! Chuck’s a blogger, novelist and long time RPG […]

Filed Under: Freelance Writing, Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Chuck Wendig, Epic Win, freelance, Gamification, Geek Health, iOS

The World of Exercising Experiment: The Mantearing

April 2, 2011 by The Chatty DM

This is a post about being a geek parent, losing weight and making a game out of it all… it’s closer to Jane MacGonical’s gaming theory than anything RPG related.  But if you are a gamer parent and face (potential) obesity problems, this may be of interest to you. Last fall I was faced with a […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits Tagged With: dance dance revolution, Exercise, Gamer Parent, gaming with children, Gaming with Kids, Just Dance, wii, world of warcraft

The Dungeon Reality Show, D&D Essentials Edition, Part 1

February 1, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty starts relating how his recent Dungeon Reality Show was such a huge success and starts his reconciliation with D&D 4e.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits Tagged With: d&d 4e, Demos, Dungeon Reality Show, one-shot, Say Yes, Teaching RPGs

Chatty’s New Lair, V2.0

January 6, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty invites you to his basement lair to witness the unveiling of his new secret laboratory of writing doom… or is it writhing doom? I always forget.

Filed Under: Freelance Writing, Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Creature Comfort, Freelance Writing, Home Office

Friday Chat, Early Edition: The Geeky Road Trip

August 26, 2010 by The Chatty DM

In about 24 hours, I’ll be leaving for the Toronto Fan Expo with my friend PM. The Expo is Canada’s largest event for Sci-Fi, Horror, Anime and Gaming fans where they get to meet some of their favorite industry personalities and stock up on merch. I have a 5 hour car trip to plan so I thought I’d reach out and share/ask how the travelling part of the trip should be prepared!

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Geek Stuff, Movies, Music, Musings of the Chatty DM, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Television, Tropes Tagged With: Car Trip, Geek Trip, iphone, Montreal, Mp3, Music, Road Trip, Smart Phones, Toronto, Toronto Fan Expo 2010

Chatty’s post-Gen Con Prologue: The Power of Fun

August 9, 2010 by The Chatty DM

I hung around with friends. I walked the floor a few times, gave a seminar to a full room (of chairs… with people on all of them!). I had an awesome interview with Chris Perkins (Killer of PCs, maker of TPKs). I ate high calorie comfort food, signed and sold lots of books and gamed gamed gamed!

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

Chatty’s Gen Con 2010 Schedule

July 30, 2010 by The Chatty DM

This is Chatty’s official Gen Con schedule so you can track him down and tell him about your campaign… he reserves the right to cut you off and tell you about his!

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: gen con 2010

The Soft Landing: Pax East Highlights

March 29, 2010 by The Chatty DM

Late night board gaming, meeting Wil Wheaton, running the DM challenge, and much more in the Chatty DM’s trip to Pax East.
Oh, and Silver Bulettes that crap gravitational anomalies.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4E d&d, Burning Wheel, pax, wil wheaton

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