We had fun last night playing card games and board games. I needed the distraction and it was really enjoyable. See here for a description of the games we played. We played two shifts of Lord of the Fries and its a fun Card game… Although when played with several players (we were 6 for […]
Chatty’s Break: Board/Card Game Night
Hot on the heels of me declaring myself a burnt out DM, some of the gang has agreed to secretly meet in the depth of the Northern Suburban Jungle of Montreal tonight. As the title subtly hints at, we’re going to play some card games and Board games. Anything but D&D and Magic the Gathering! […]
Chatty’s Question: Rekindling the flame
I think all GMs inevitably go through this, but I’m currently undergoing GM burnout. I just don’t feel like being at the head of the table anymore. Don’t worry, I’m still very much a Chatty DM… This is not the first time it happened to me. Its just that I need to recharge my batteries. […]
Happy Turkeyday!
Last year I had written a huge post about something and then I was wondering why no one was commenting. Then it dawned on me that a huge chunk of my readers were away from thier computer screens. As many posts point out already on the RPG blogsphere today, the US celebrates Thanksgiving today. Even […]
Bedtime Campaign: The Sword of Dreams
This post is part of a series where I made the going to bed story of my son into a free form roleplaying game. See the first post here and the whole series here. While I’ve been doing Interactive stories with my son since I came back from Gen Con, not all of them were […]
Chatty’s D&D Online Game: Trial game report
I took a day off from work and blogging today to relax a bit and fiddle with an actual computer game called Portal. I’m way behind in the ‘dude you must play that game’ thing and while my buddies are out playing Fallout 3 I finally shelled out for that awesome game. As I was […]
Adventure Prep: Online D&D game trial
As discussed here, I’ve gotten a group of geeks together to experiment with playing D&D online. The first game (Friday night) is mostly about meeting with the players online, getting our various software working and maybe try playing a short D&D 4e Scenario. For the first game we settled for Gametable as the Virtual tabletop […]
Chatty’s First Freelance project
Its official. I just signed a freelance writing contract with Goodman Games. After a few flip-flops on my part, I (helped by a few people hitting me on the head with a frying pan) decided to plunge forward come what may. I shall be spending the next few weeks writing (with the help of a […]
Work less, Partner with People and Make it! (RPG Blog Edition)
Jonhathan, a fellow RPG Blogger network member sent us an impassioned message on the network’s mailing list earlier this week. He was exhorting the virtues of making partnerships to increase our success as bloggers and RPG enthusiasts. He was sharing with us what he got from this Copyblogger article about how all the work we […]
DM Chronicle: Session 5, Alien Feys & Whiskered Pirates, Part 2
See part 1 here. Scene 3: White Rage! After a night where the PCs slept warily on the bridge of the ship the PCs spotted a winged creature flying toward them. It was a large White Dragon with a human pirate riding it. Screaming in draconic about ‘finally getting a prize worth taking’ the dragon […]
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