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The Ultimate Retro-Stupid CRPG gets a facelift!

April 14, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I got the info from RPG pundit’s blog (Read the man’s colorful prose at your own risk). The grand daddy of free geek CRPGs(Computer RPG), Nethack, has had a recent facelift. I’ve been playing NetHack on and off for more than 10 years, much to the amusement of my buddies who can’t fathom how I […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

La Ville est Hockey (The City is Hockey)

April 14, 2008 by The Chatty DM

After 15 years without a Stanley Cup win, Montreal is going bonkers over its own team. I’m no big Hockey fan but I too am succumbing to the fever. I’m therefore throwing a challenge to the geek blogsphere. Any Boston Bruins fan Bloggers reading this? If you are, I bet that the Habs will win […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Hockey Bet, Sports

CommentLuv Plugin Activated

April 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’ve seen it on a few blogs and I must say I liked it a lot. I just installed the CommentLuv plugin that basically checks the URL of a commenter and tries to recover a link to the latest blog post of that commenter to add it at the end of a comment. I think […]

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

Mobile Phones in Cars

April 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I only have one blog and I need to rant about something totally unrelated to RPGs… but somewhat geeky… so feel free to move on or add some oil on the fire. On April 1st, a new law (for real, not as an April Fool’s) passed in Quebec that strictly forbids the use of hand-held […]

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

It’s time to move on…

April 1, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I think many of you saw the signs in the last few days… longer periods between posts, a few personal posts about blogging vs real life and general funkyness. Well after thinking about it long and hard, I’ve decided that it’s time I moved on to more productive things. So I’m going to start writing […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Have you looked at the date?

Found a name for my gaming group!

March 29, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Yesterday, before we started our bi-monthly D&D game, I had to step outside to go and get the last player from the Subway station nearby. As I got out, I noticed that out of the seven people that play in our group, 4 own a Ford Focus Station Wagon (So Ronin, I may have to […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

Of Exercise Videogames and Musical Rumours

March 23, 2008 by The Chatty DM

No RPG content here… but a few geeky lifestyle comments and a video game scoop. All right, my stress is under control. Exercise helps a lot, but end of weeks are always easier. My big test for my new stress-control strategies is going to be tomorrow morning (i.e. returning to work). Friday morning, before I […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Geek Health, rock band, Video Games

YABM: Welcome new commenters, almost 2000 comments!

March 21, 2008 by The Chatty DM

YABM: Yet another Blog Milestone Having been a bit out of it in the last few weeks and having finally tackled the very passion inducing subject of 4e (and Paizo’s 3.5 strategy) I haven’t been able to personally welcome each new commenter on the blog as I tried to do before. So I’m taking a […]

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

GaryCon

March 6, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Borrowed from The Evil DM’s blog (and adapted): World-Wide GaryCon this weekend! By now everyone I’m sure has heard of the passing of Gary Gygax. One of the best suggestions so far for a fitting tribute is GaryCon. Basically GaryCon is about gaming. This weekend take some time and play a game. Run a game […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Gaming with Kids

YABM (Yet another Blog Milestone)

March 6, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This morning I hit 200 RSS subscribers for the 1st time! Yay! I am getting used to the fact that this Blog thing is for real, I’m still amazed that people follow my ramblings. As always, I thank you all! I’m keeping with my decision of doing few (or light) posts this week. I’ll be […]

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

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