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Board/Card Games report #2, Part 2: Booty Geek Club Blast

January 8, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here Okay so after having played Lunch Money a couple of times, we were ready for something meatier.  So we got out my copy of Settlers of Catan, the classic German game of, well, settling an Island. What I really like about that game is how fast paced it is.  A turn […]

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

Board/Card Games Report #2, Part 1: Anime Zombie School Fight!

January 7, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Now that’s a Chatty title. Last Friday, while  I was enjoying the last few days of the holidays, my good friend and expert mastermind PM invited me and my buddy Franky for a full day of card games, Anime and general geekiness. As usual, these days are a blast.  Spending from late mornings to late […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Anime, Card Games

Chatty’s Break: Game Night Report

November 29, 2008 by The Chatty DM

We had fun last night playing card games and board games.  I needed the distraction and it was really enjoyable. See here for a description of the games we played. We played two shifts of Lord of the Fries and its a fun Card game… Although when played with several players (we were 6 for […]

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

Chatty’s Break: Board/Card Game Night

November 28, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Hot on the heels of me declaring myself a burnt out DM, some of the gang has agreed to secretly meet in the depth of the Northern Suburban Jungle of Montreal tonight. As the title subtly hints at, we’re going to play some card games and Board games. Anything but D&D and Magic the Gathering! […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

Free GMing advice from the GM-FU masters!

September 25, 2008 by The Chatty DM

As of late last night, I’m officially a published RPG author! You can now download the Gen Con 2008 workshop booklet we created for our GM-Fu Seminar.  Along with my blogging and GM-for-Hire friend Phil Veccione and with the masterful editing of Vicki Potter, we offer you a free PDF filled with: Trope tips Tailoring […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: gen con 2008, GM-Fu

The Life of a Suburban Overlord

September 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Update: I went ahead and created a website for the webcomic.  You can find it here.  I will update it M-W-F until I grow tired of it or something… My friend Pierre bought himself a iPhone 3G, installed a Comic Book app on it and started posting possibly the first Twitter Webcomic.  (He’s going to […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Evil Overlord, TLSO, Tropes

Epic Laundry Basket: Console Music Games

August 21, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I finally Bought Rock Band for the PS2. Start playing Guitar Hero and Rockband at Medium. You’ll thank me later. 21 words.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

Random Thoughts: Gen Con, Job Posting for ZeStuff, Mearls joins network!

August 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m off to Gen Con. I just finished packing my suitcases and I’m done doing all the prep work for my games, seminars and other fun stuff. I don’t plan to live blog because I’m already so overbooked that I fear I won’t enjoy Gen Con as much as I should. Between DMing 13 hours […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: gen con 2008

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