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Chatty’s Mailbox: The Magnificent Villain

April 20, 2008 by The Chatty DM

While I was writing my 300th milestone post, I got a very interesting email from a reader. Here’s what he wrote: Good afternoon! I’ve been a long time reader of and commenter on your blog, and I was looking for some brainstorming help. Specifically, what kind of holds could a magnificent bastard have over a […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games, Tropes

Hit by a (consultative) Drive-by Shooting

April 20, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This morning I woke up covered in (figurative) blood. I had just been the target of James and Harry (of Men with Pens‘s fame) Drive-by Shooting Sundays. The rather colorful and fluffed-up setup is actually a lookover consultation of the blog from the eyes of trained online buisness men. While I knew that the Blog […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Blogging about Blogging

Chatty’s Random Thoughts: Potions

April 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Chatty steps on the stage and walks up to the mike, looking nervous. He clears his throat, takes a deep breath and starts. How ya doin? Nice to see y’all here. All right, what’s the deal with potions? I mean it’s a spell that you drink. You chug that little bottle of power and it […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Lame jokes

300th Post!

April 17, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Hell, I’ve been trying to say something about my 300th post and everything sounds either clinically boring or monstrously egocentric. This is my 3rd stab at it… Bottom line, I can’t believe I made it that far and I owe it all to you that take a few minutes to read my ramblings!  It means […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

The Stages of a RPG Team’s Development, Part 6: Stagnation

April 17, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Somewhere between September and October of 2007, I wrote a series about comparing a RPG gaming group to a workplace project team. The analogy was rather solid and I got a lot of  good feedback on it. Since then, I was pointed toward Kyle Aaron’s similar work over here. There, he pointed out a key […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: The, The 4 stages

A RPG Truism

April 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Over at Twenty-Sided, Shamus posted about The Sims and how some people enjoy this far longer than others. In one of his argument, he mentions his prolonged interests in Shooter type games. When challenged by a hypothetical person of a different demographics (man I love how he dodged so many mines in that post*) he […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Steampunk Star Wars RPG… How cool would it be?

April 15, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I love the concept of Steampunk Star Wars, I really do. It blends two styles that I really love: Space Opera and Jules Vernes’ Victorian setting. As I already talked about, blending two cool things together can result in an explosion of cool. I mean, just look at the Spork! (Credit: Graham) For instance, look […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: rule of cool, Steampunk Star Wars, Tropes

The Ultimate Retro-Stupid CRPG gets a facelift!

April 14, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I got the info from RPG pundit’s blog (Read the man’s colorful prose at your own risk). The grand daddy of free geek CRPGs(Computer RPG), Nethack, has had a recent facelift. I’ve been playing NetHack on and off for more than 10 years, much to the amusement of my buddies who can’t fathom how I […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

La Ville est Hockey (The City is Hockey)

April 14, 2008 by The Chatty DM

After 15 years without a Stanley Cup win, Montreal is going bonkers over its own team. I’m no big Hockey fan but I too am succumbing to the fever. I’m therefore throwing a challenge to the geek blogsphere. Any Boston Bruins fan Bloggers reading this? If you are, I bet that the Habs will win […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Hockey Bet, Sports

DM Chronicles 15: Weathering the Apocalyspe with your Poker Buddies

April 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

In the game session 2 weeks ago, I concluded the party’s foray in the Demonwebs layer of the Abyss with the wretching of Ptolus (the campaign’s home base) out of the material world and plopping it up in another layer of the Abyss ruled by the Demon Prince Gratzz. Last Friday’s game wasn’t stellar nor […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: 3.5e, Chatty's 2007-2008 campaign

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    The Chatty DM is the "nom de plume" of gamer geek Philippe-Antoine Menard. He has been a GM for over 40 years. An award-winning RPG blogger, game designer, and scriptwriter at Ubisoft. He squats a corner of Critical Hits he affectionately calls "Musings of the Chatty DM." (Email Phil or follow him on Twitter.)

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