Previously in Chatty’s Game: Our Heroes battled a pirate Scholar and her Dragon Pet only to see her escape at the last second before defeat. Alone against a city of angry Ape Men, they almost managed to turn them to their cause only to be defeated by a crazed zealot and his retinue of elite […]
RPG Bloggers Digest and Creative Overdrive Output
For those who missed it, Dave and I started posting weekly highlights of the RPG posts that appeared on the RPG Blogger network. You can see my first post here, and Dave’s picks here. It basically highlights whatever got our attention during our alternating weeks as Editors of the network. Have a look its well […]
Chatty’s Online D&D 4e Game: Genesis of the Project
As many of you know, I made a lot of friends and contacts around the time of Gen Con 2008. Among those friends was Don, one of the members of the Wizards of the Coast Development team working on D&D insider. Don was one of the Seattle Wizards who read my Open Letter to WotC […]
The long Journey, 500th post!
Musings of the Chatty DM started a little over 1 year ago, with a bad colour scheme and a 34 year old nerd with limited editorial and web design skills. The first 200 posts were about finding my voice, the next 200 were those that established me as a credible blogger and building an incredible […]
Robin Laws’ Revisited: Part 6, Being Spontaneous!
This post is part of a series where I discuss Robin D Laws’ seminal work on GMing: Robin Laws’ of Good Game Mastering, written at the end of the 90’s . I compare it to my personal experience and opinions and I check how well the guide has ‘aged’. The other posts of this series […]
Adventure Prep: Keeping it Simple and Stupid
All right so last night I sat down to prep for my game as I planned it here and here. My goal of the night was to be done with the first half of the adventure: Getting on the Fey Airship and reaching the player’s destination. I got out all the battle maps (I have […]
Adventure Prep: Fitting everything in one evening
Since I’m running a D&D 4e home brewed adventure for my gaming group this week, a lot of my creative energies will be focused there for the next few days. A guy needs his priorities straight and my D&D game is pretty much at the top of my ‘use of free time’ list. This means […]
The voice of Chattyness
If you ever wondered what this French Canadian Blogger sounds like after 3 days with little sleep and way too much geek energy, go and have a listen at Pulp Gamer. They just put up the RPGbloggers unite panel from Gen Con. Along with Dave and Bartoneus of Critical Hits, Yax of Dungeonmastering.com, The Stupid […]
Consultant GM Case #1: The Wrecked Ship of Horror
Its the weekend, time to try something new! In the last few months, I’ve taken a role of GM consulting through Gmail with readers and friends. One of the things I excel at is brainstorming and throwing ideas out. When I started getting great feedback for the ideas I gave out I started thinking maybe […]
Adventure Prep: Of Airships, Feys and Player Input
After a poisoned pillow fight, Slave apes and a librarian warrior chainmail bikini fetish, I promised my players that I’d write the last part of our 1st D&D 4e campaign and bring it to an apex of coolness. Since our next session is next week and the adventure is actually going to be a homebrewed […]
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