Wrath of Zombies is a recent Blogger. You can follow his RPG antics over at his blog. Wow. I feel all sorts of special getting to fill in for Chatty today! Honestly, for a new blogger like me, these are big shoes to fill but I’ll try not to disappoint! I, ironically at the same […]
Guest Posters Wanted: Gen Con Hiatus
As I said in my last post, the work needed to finish the One-Page Dungeon Codex and the preparation leading to Gen Con are going to take most of my free time over the next 2 weeks. Like last year, I’d like to keep Musings active with new content. So that’s why I’m sending a […]
Tales of the City Within, Session 3: The Final Chapter
Disclamer: I take several narrative liberties in my game reports. While I write what actually happens, I often adapt dialog elements or change some details to make for a better narrative… also, beer tends to fog things up a little. Keeping up Appearances This session was to be the last of our gaming ‘season’. This […]
Drunken D&D Adventure Design
In a few weeks I’ll land in Indianapolis where 6 friends will be waiting to start our annual Drunken D&D game, a happy mix of D&D and collegiate drinking games. I’ll be the DM of this event and that means that I need to write an adventure for it. I’ll be spending a few nights […]
Chatty’s Pick for the Best Website Ennies
As many of you know, today marks the first day that you can vote at the Ennies. As some of you many also know, I entered Musings of the Chatty DM for the second time this year and I didn’t get nominated. In fact, last year, I entered the contest as a dare with a […]
Robin Laws Revisited: The Complete Series
This post bring together all the articles I wrote about Robin Laws of Good Game Mastering from January 2008 to July 2009. For those who haven’t heard or seen it, this book, published in 1999, gives advice on being a Game Master (irrespective of game systems). The series was aimed at revisiting it in the […]
Robin Laws Revisited, Part 9: Conclusions (His and Mine)
Back in January 2008, I purchased a PDF called Robin Laws’ of Good Game Mastering over at the Steve Jackson Games’ PDF store. I had heard of that book from many GMs and I had seen it at my favorite game store. More importantly however, I had recently read (and been blown away by) his […]
It’s a Circus out here!
To say that I’m busy would be a gross understatement. I’m slowly getting accustomed to working full time after 5 months of sick-leave. However, my freelance to do list starts here and ends up somewhere behind Saturn… or so it seems to me. Here’s a little sample: Build the One Page Dungeon PDF with Chgowhiz. […]
Robin Laws’ Revisited, Part 8: Improvising
After 5 days of starting a post and then trashing it, I decided to look at my unfinished projects to see what I could focus on to kill my latest white page syndrome. When I picked up my very creased stapled copy of Robin Laws’ book, I noticed that it was opened at the last […]
Tales of the City Within, Session 2, Part 2
See part 1 here. A History Lesson from Beyond the Grave The PCs got their info-dump dose from the Dwarf Lich. The city’s founder explained that the recent discovery of the techniques to manipulate the energies of the Dungeon and the Nexus would enable the PCs to take the fight directly to the Dungeon and […]
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