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Yet another Milestone

October 22, 2007 by The Chatty DM

This is just a short meta-blogging message to mark my 100th post in this here blog. I can’t believe that in only 10 weeks I wrote between 70 000 and 100 000 words already! Isn’t that like a novel or something? While I originally was doing this for myself and some of my players (and […]

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

New look!

October 21, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: Me, Simpsonize me and The Gimp Hot on the heels of Dr Rotwang’s sexy robotic revamp and similar makeovers over at Critical-Hits, Dungeonmastering and Treasure Tables, I decided to leave behind Blogger’s default header and go with a more personal touch. With a mug shot, the Simpsonize me site and a lot of […]

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Cry Crunch and lets slit the Fluff off War!

October 18, 2007 by The Chatty DM

I see that after a bit less than 24 hours of polling, my pain-med induced Overlord Crunch of Madness posts aren’t that popular. I still need to see this one to the end though. I’m therefore giving this post a double mandate: Finish off what I started against my Nemesis and giving you a few […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Crunch, fluff, Tropes

My tools of the Trade

October 13, 2007 by The Chatty DM

While my minions toll away at building my Ultimate Crunch army of Ultimate Power to crush the Fluff Kingdom, I have a game to prepare for next Friday. Recent musings by Dante over at Stupid Ranger has made me ponder about the number of D&D books and gaming aids I use…. I have a lot […]

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

Enter my Nemesis: Wolfgang Baur!

October 11, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: Once again, RPGnet’s Forum. To arms! My Fluff Nemesis, Master Wolfgang Baur, has found out about my nefarious plans to topple his empire of Fluff and has already started to maneuver to foil my mad Crunchy schemes! Aside: Well, to be honest, I did tell him about the Nemesis thing, how fun is […]

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Nothing kills a fight faster than starting a combat.

September 23, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: Fiery Dragon Productions A few months ago, while reading the most excellent, and sadly concluded, DM of the Rings webcomic, I came upon a very inspiring strip. I wrote a forum post about it but I’d like to re-edit it here instead of letting it fall off the 20th page. Shamus’ cynical comments […]

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Obligatory Blog Social Meme: Four on the Floor

September 21, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Wow, a few days shy of my 2nd month doing this Bloggy buisness and I’ve already been tagged by The Stupid Ranger for a thing called a Meme. Now having read both of Brin’s uplift Trilogies I know that a Meme is a lifeform made out of ideas!!!! So I am basically being infected! Never […]

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Recycling the Echo Chamber…

September 19, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Deeper in the archives of my pals at Critical Hits lies a link to a gaming video made by semi-celebrities of the audio-visual arts in the frigid spaces of Québec, Canada. I’m not bringing a lot of new things to the discussions (hence the title reference) except to show it to people who haven’t seen […]

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

Online Tools, Take 3

September 16, 2007 by The Chatty DM

I’ve been thinking about it for some time now and I finally set everything in motion this morning. (I love Sunday morning cartoons, both my kids are watching while I tap away and keep an eye on them to the sound of high-pitched laughter). After talking about it here and here, I went out and […]

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

Where you guys come from…

September 14, 2007 by The Chatty DM

I’m going to commit a little blogging sin and go meta-blogging here. I’ll make it up with a Gaming Post today, honest! Yesterday I was looking at where people link from to get here and the planet is indeed a small place. (I took out the ones that stayed less than 1 minute, those were […]

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

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