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Is there such a thing as too much cool?

September 13, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: The Brothers Brick Blog My friends Dave and Danny over at Critical-Hits posted this over on their side. This makes me ask myself: Is there such a thing as too much cool? My rational side is a bit repulsed by the sheer cheesiness of the video. But my primitive, emotional brain purrs overtime […]

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

Online Tools, Take 2

August 30, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Last month I posted about software tools I planned on using in our current game. It turns out it worked a lot better than planned. All players joined the Google Group we created (see here for explanations on how it works) and I’m truly impressed by participation. Google Groups are basically a discussion group tool. […]

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

Battlestar Galactica

August 3, 2007 by The Chatty DM

I know I’m 3 years late but last night I sat down with my wife and popped the 1st disk of Season 1 of BSG. We were hooked after the 1st 5 minutes. I thought the 1st episode was a 2 hour pilot, turns out it was a 4 hour film!!!!!! Now I know why […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

RPG Software

July 26, 2007 by The Chatty DM

I’m a complete and utter Geek (I scored Major Geek BTW) sometimes its a huge wonder that I actually got married, but then again, my lovely wife is also pretty up there on the geek scale. Anywho, being the geek that I am, I’ve always been fascinated by using computers to make my RPG games […]

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

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