See part 1 here. Setting up the Fight This is going to be a weird game report because the fight that I will get into shortly, is pretty much all that happened in the game, with some dream sequence before and a bit of story and scary stuff after. So I’ll spend a few minutes […]
Primal/Within Chronicles: Say it with Tentacles, Part 1
If you are entirely new to my game posts, hi! Thanks for stopping by. Have a look here to retrace what happened up to now. Scare us Ô Dungeonmaster It will have been our shortest Summer break ever. After having skipped one game while I was gone camping with my lovely wife and kids, I […]
Gen Con 2009: Highlights, Part 2
I just listened to the ‘Not-going to Gen Con’ edition of the RPG Haven Podcast, and now I feel bad of not liveblogging the whole thing… since one of the host pointed toward my blog as a Gen Con source… It was a lot harder this year! Ohhh I forgot My good friend Wil kindly […]
Gen Con 2009: Highlights, Part 1
Because of several reasons whose roots coincide with my health issues of last spring, this year’s Gen Con trip lacked a clear mission. Part Networking, part press, part gaming with my friends and part work as a tournament DM, I ended up with a an overfull schedule that robbed me, in part, of the magic […]
The Order of the Chatty DMs: Gen Con Guest Posters 2009
Yes, I’m back from Gen Con. I’m still recuperating from it all, but it was as phenomenal as last year’s. That also means that the Gen Con hiatus is finished. Yay! Over the next few days, I’ll be writing posts about my Indianapolis adventures but this posts isn’t about that. Today I want to sing […]
Gen Con: ‘Puter troubles
Yesterday morning, I wrote a 775 word article on my 1st day of the Con. The post got eaten by WordPress (I can’t even recover autosaves it seems) and I only noticed last night. So I’ve decided that I will not post daily updates of my activities and will do a ‘Highlights and Lessons Learned’ […]
I Didn’t Know You Could Do That in 4e – Social Combat -or- Making Charisma the Overpowered Attribute for Once
So. You’ve seen movies or comic books where people can use their words as a tangible means to fight. You’ve been impressed by witty insults in swordfights, fierce battle cries, and people who use words to defend themselves with more than a snippy comeback.And you’ve thought to yourself, “Self, wouldn’t it be badass to be able to do that in a role-playing game?”.
Well, I believe it not only to be possible – but easily done in a variety of handily house-rulable forms. And not just the charismatic few who use as verbal buffs in combat to help allies or intimidate enemies – but that any characters can use a well-placed jibe to throw an opponent. Elan would be proud.
Gen Con Briefs: Wednesday
I don’t know how much I’ll be able to blog this year at Gen Con. I promised myself that I would not skip sleep to write so my posts will be Sporadic. Here’s a few highlight of Yesterday. I met Robin Laws at the O’Hare Chicago airport. We chatted about player types and motivation some […]
Adventurers Anonymous
Storyteller is the author of the RPG blog Beneath the Screen, and a content developer for Nevermet Press. He is proud to be back at ChattyDM’s blog for the one-year anniversary of his first guest post ever on the blogosphere, which he wrote for ChattyDM last year. Without further ado, onward with the guest post! […]
Contest: Yes! Please tell me about your PC…on Twitter
Regular readers will know that I have a thing for Twitter. If you’ve never heard of it, it allows you to post micro posts of maximum 140 characters in length. It also allows you to follow specific twitter accounts, like mine here, to see what people you care about are saying. Well a few weeks […]
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