In which Chatty exits his blog silence to share the best tidbits of his Washington DC trip to attend a gaming con.
Chatty’s Adventure Scaffold #1 : Words with Fiends
Where Chatty makes his triumphant return by being all cryptic about what he did these last few weeks. At least, you’ll get a cool adventure plan for your reading troubles.
The World of Exercising Experiment: The Mantearing
This is a post about being a geek parent, losing weight and making a game out of it all… it’s closer to Jane MacGonical’s gaming theory than anything RPG related. But if you are a gamer parent and face (potential) obesity problems, this may be of interest to you. Last fall I was faced with a […]
Chatty’s PaxEast Highlights: 3 days of Fun Among Friends
In which Chatty miraculously fits his highlights of a spectacular convention in only one 1500 words post. A record some will say!
Mouseburning It: Hacking a Skill System, Small Press Style
In which Chatty finally shares part of what his small press pilgrimage taught him and describes his new method for dealing with skill checks in classic RPGs like D&D (easily adaptable to most other classic games too)
The Dungeon Reality Show, D&D Essentials Edition, Part 2
In which Chatty concludes his play report of the Dungeon Reality Show: Sunderpeak Temple. Includes lizard-skin clothes, trashy priestesses, one-roll skill challenges and Beads of Awesomeness ’nuff said. Come and read!
The Dungeon Reality Show, D&D Essentials Edition, Part 1
In which Chatty starts relating how his recent Dungeon Reality Show was such a huge success and starts his reconciliation with D&D 4e.
Chatty’s Mailbag: Launching your own RPG
Earlier this week I got an email question that made me ponder the realities of publishing one’s own RPG in this already flooded niche market. Here’s our friend’s question: Hey Phil, I’m finishing up development of my first RPG system, and plan to publish it on RPGnow.com in a couple month’s time. I have been […]
Chatty Plays: Freemarket Part 3, Ghost’N’Breakin’
This post chronicles the second half of our Freemarket game. You can follow my post on character creation here and my recounting of the first half here. Let’s conclude our David vs Goliath story of stolen sex toys designs, covetous enlightened blanks and subtle revenge. Quick dramatis personae reminder: Jack Knife (Yan): Jack of many […]
Chatty Play’s: Freemarket Part 2, The Steam Stallion
In which Chatty shamefully tells the tale of how his players used a brand new, state-of-the-Art Role Playing Game and tested it’s revolutionary task resolution mechanic… to make a wall and a sex toy. True Story, but hell did everyone have fun.
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