Blogging is a strange beast. There are literally tens of millions of blogs on the internet. I’m sure most are inactive or are nothing more than Bot-driven post-stealing Google Ads strewn smears but it’s still a very impressive number. Even in the restricted niche of RPG blogs there seems to be scores of blogs (my […]
Moderates have fun too!
Okay so 2 days ago I posted a rant against the mere concept of the Tyranny of Fun. Now not only was I surprised to get some feedback from Mike Mearls (giving yours truly a fanboi moment) but I was absolutely astounded at the civil, dynamic exchange of point of views. Out of the post […]
I’m finally done!
After nearly 3 weeks of procrastination, World of Warcrafting and some serious intense writing, I’m finally done with preparing my half of the GM-Fu Gen Con Seminar. I wrote about 12-14 pages of tips and tricks on Tropes and Player types motivations. A lot of it is original stuff (as I felt bad recycling too […]
The Tyranny of Fun…is a Load of Pure Unbridled BS!
I’m starting to get annoyed at all the hate being spewed about the Tyranny of Fun, whatever the fuck that expression means. I won’t link to any of them as I find that a rational discourse on this is nigh impossible seeing how emotionnaly charged the atmosphere around that screwed up concept is. Google it […]
Email issues: Deactivating Subscriptions
I’ve e-mailing issues with the blog lately. There are a some comments that I’m not getting notification for since I activated the “Subscribe to this post” plugin. Have others been having issues with emails from the blog? I might not re-instate the plugin. I encourage you to follow comment on the following feed: http://chattydm.net/comments/feed/ Sorry […]
Chatty’s Questions: What’s your Dice Fetish?
I’m almost done with my Gen Con Seminar prep, I should be done by Tuesday and come back with meatier fare soon after. Here’s another content light post! I started reading a pretty good webcomic called Weregeek (thanks Sandrinnad!). In one strip, the author addresses the Dice Fetish trope were one player freaks out when […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: Season 1 Boxed Set
One of the lessons I learned from the Ennies Nominations is that my Site could gain from better navigation tools. This post is a step in this direction as I’ll put a link to it in my sidebar. Director’s Intro: I discovered the TVTropes wiki on the ‘Okay…Your Turn‘ gaming forum early in September 2007 […]
Random Thoughts: Atomic Pod Treasure Trove Reveal Stolen Pixels
Before I forget! Only 2 more days to send an entry in the One Sentence NPC contest! Soooo, Gen Con prep is slowly nearing completion, it’s taking longer than expected but I believe that the GM-Fu Workshop book we’re doing is going to be awesome. So awesome in fact that we plan on making it […]
The 2008 Ennies: Chatty Walks Away, Disappointed.
Well Yax made it and I didn’t. See here for nominations. Congrats Yax, you created and developed quite an accessible, and interesting quality RPG site! I’m disappointed, for sure, but not bitter. I gave it the good old college try and will likely enter again next year. By submitting the site so early in it’s […]
Musings on Musings of the Chatty DM
Hey there. I know no one believes me when I say I stop/slow down my posts. I won’t say it anymore. Suffice it to say that I’ve stopped writing posts that take me more than 45 minutes to write since the last 2 weeks (including the Open Letter) as I’m preparing my Gen Con presentation. […]
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