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Registered for Gen Con!

February 4, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Well it’s done. I registered for Gen Con and I booked the Hotel. I’ll be staying at the swanky Omni Severin hotel which, apparently, sits about 0,2 miles from the Convention Center. Wee! It’s going to be my 1st stay in Indianapolis and my 1st Gen Con experience. I’ll stock up on sleep beforehand! Here’s […]

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

I cast Magic Missile!

February 2, 2008 by The Chatty DM

There used to be that old animated video on the web about a group of dweebs playing D&D, I just found a ‘new’ version done with Final Fantasy sprites… Hey that Video plugin does work!

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

A geek by any other name…

January 27, 2008 by The Chatty DM

It’s no secret that a minor theme of this blog is all things geeky… RPGs and Dming being the main subject of my Geeky blogging. Last Friday, Math arrived home and showed his new iPod Touch to my wife Alex. Of course, she went bonkers over it and Math, laughing, came downstrais to join us, […]

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Feeding the Geek

January 17, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Short micro non-RPG geek post. Many of the people who read blogs do so through Feed readers (there are a ton out there, I use Google Reader myself, plugged in my iGoogle page). When this blog gets accessed by this feed here it’s considered to have 1 subscriber. (BTW I’m aware that image are weirdly […]

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

My tools of the trade, Part 2

January 11, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Back in October I posted about the tools and props I used in my D&D games. Well since my game is ready and good to go, I took a few more pictures of how I organize my things to have the smoothest of Crunchy game sessions. My DMing Corner: I have a recently renovated room […]

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

What Awaits my Players…

January 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I finished my game prep early enough to drop by here and make another mini-post. This time it’s a preview of what awaits my players and is also a showcase of what you can do with the D&D battlemaps, tiles and miniatures. First we have our heroes leaving the Styx’ Oarsman, a newly opened inn […]

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

New Search feature being playtested

January 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Following Greywulf’s glowing review, I signed up for Lijit’s search service which offers full blog search as well as for those of my blogroll and other feeds I added to it. Fell free to play with it and comment on how it turns out. If you prefer the original WordPress one, just tell me (and […]

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Mini-Link: Non-RPG geekiness

January 7, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Since I actually posted today’s article yesterday morning, here’s a very short something about my non-RPG interests. Like a lot of tabletop RPG aficionados, I like geeky stuff. My favorites are about technology, vintage video games, movies, cool TV series and doing stuff with kids. So far my blog list for those is rather limited. […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Gaming with Kids, mini-post

Holy Green Giant Clay Golem!

December 29, 2007 by The Chatty DM

This is a short mini-post just to showcase my latest D&D Miniature acquisitions. As I usually do, I buy 2 boosters of each and every D&D mini series they make. The latest one, Desert of Desolation is full of goodies for my future game sessions. Look a Bone Devil, a Spined Devil, a Fire elemental, […]

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

A very Goblin X-mas

December 25, 2007 by The Chatty DM

What would be X-mas morning without a Goblin Song…. (Taken from the Paizo Blog) (Sung to the tune of Jingle Bells) Sneaking through your yard, Going through your stuff, Hope you didn’t like your dog; we got a little rough! Tied him to a stump. Lit the stump on fire. Maybe you’ll wake up in […]

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

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