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Thanks Gary… Peace be unto you.

March 4, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I just read from Dave that E. Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons died. Enworld is down, probably from traffic overload. But the story is creeping up on the net and CNN confirmed it. I owe my favorite hobby and way of life to this man. I would have wished to thank him in […]

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

Hot nerd girl! (Safe for work)

March 4, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I Found this video on Dane of War‘s blog by way of Jeff the Evil DM‘s blog. She’s got other stuff that she posted here. I don’t know if she has a blog… I like her style! Nerd/geek girls are the best for us guy geeks. I married one and I bless my luck every […]

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Slowing down… Spring break… and Akismet finally activated.

March 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

My kids are starting the primary school equivalent of spring break (i.e no school, but no partying in Florida either) so I decided to slow down a bit on the blog this week. Expect a one or two-part post on last Friday’s game tonight and maybe tomorrow but not much else this week. I could […]

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

Martial Arts + Chinese Bear + Jack Black = COOL!

February 22, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Yeah I’m in a YouTube mood… John, I want you to stat me up a Kung Fu Panda in Silvervine for Gen Con, not negociable!

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

The Guild, a WoW micro Sitcom.

February 22, 2008 by The Chatty DM

It’s probably old hat for a lot of you but a few weeks ago, friends of mine stumbled onto that… Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 You can find the next 7 here. I took a day off today (yay!) but the D&D game was cancelled because of lack of two players…. I guess I’ll […]

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The Echo Chamber: 10 worst reasons to blog, Part 2

February 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m dead tired, so I’ll tackle this instead on writing a sub-par Session report of our Pathfinder for newbies game (which went well for all except PM, he sucks at dice, period!) See part 1 here. The List is taken from Geeks are Sexy and posted by Piggybankpie‘s Patrick. Let’s continue, shall we? 6. Busted […]

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The Echo Chamber: 10 worst reasons to blog, Part 1

February 17, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Totally unrelated to RPGs, this is a pure Meta-blogging post. Still it will be of interest to RPG bloggers. Towards the end of the week, Graham sent me a cool link. It’s a guest post on Geeks are Sexy by Montreal-based blogger Patrick who runs the PiggyBankPie blog/project. This very funny and eerily accurate article […]

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Chatty’s Newly Renovated Abode!

February 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Welcome one and all to the newest incarnation of this here blog! With the tireless help of Graham, (well, more than that really, he hacked the whole theme!) I present you the newest theme, complete with the awesome banner done by artist Veronica Pare. Late last year when I was still writing over my Blogger-based […]

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

Chatty's Newly Renovated Abode!

February 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Welcome one and all to the newest incarnation of this here blog! With the tireless help of Graham, (well, more than that really, he hacked the whole theme!) I present you the newest theme, complete with the awesome banner done by artist Veronica Pare. Late last year when I was still writing over my Blogger-based […]

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

Finally a manual for the rest of them!

February 8, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: Stupid Ranger (did you know this pictures shows up on Google Image’s 1st page using ‘nerd’? I’m impressed!) My good friend Nicolas, an ex-player whose moved on to, shall we say, blonder pastures in Sweden sent me something while I was asleep. As a follow up to my musings on geekdom/nerdistry, here is […]

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