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Of Exercise Videogames and Musical Rumours

March 23, 2008 by The Chatty DM

No RPG content here… but a few geeky lifestyle comments and a video game scoop. All right, my stress is under control. Exercise helps a lot, but end of weeks are always easier. My big test for my new stress-control strategies is going to be tomorrow morning (i.e. returning to work). Friday morning, before I […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Geek Health, rock band, Video Games

YABM: Welcome new commenters, almost 2000 comments!

March 21, 2008 by The Chatty DM

YABM: Yet another Blog Milestone Having been a bit out of it in the last few weeks and having finally tackled the very passion inducing subject of 4e (and Paizo’s 3.5 strategy) I haven’t been able to personally welcome each new commenter on the blog as I tried to do before. So I’m taking a […]

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

DM Chronicles, Session 13: Of Moons and Xanathos Railroads, Part 2

March 20, 2008 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. After the fight and Eric’s Bare-assed performance we moved on the evening’s 3rd scene. Now I won’t get into details of the scene, because there’s no way I could describe it without spending hundreds of words in backstory. Let’s just say that this time I really managed to surpass my tendency […]

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

Chatty’s Out of the Box #005: Right Said Slaad!

March 19, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Here’s a new comic with my favorite Green Spawn of Chaos! As usual, click thumbnail. This time I’ve officially teamed up with PM who contributed to the writing and the Photoshoping. He deserves his share of the credit and here it is. I think we’re on to something here and we already have brainstormed a […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Uncategorized Tagged With: Chatty's Out of the Box, Tropes

This Just in… Pathfinder to remain 3.5

March 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

From the Paizo Newswire: Pathfinder™ to continue under the 3.5 rules. Tuesday, March 19th, 2008 Paizo Publishing today unveiled the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, a tabletop fantasy roleplaying game that will serve as the anchor for the company’s popular line of Pathfinder adventures, sourcebooks, and campaigns. Today marks the beginning of a year-long Open Playtest of […]

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

DM Chronicles, Session 13: Of Moons and Xanathos Railroads, Part 1

March 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This post is part of a series that chronicles our current D&D 3.5 campaign. To say that last Friday’s game wasn’t intense would be a bald faced lie… it just wasn’t intense for the reasons I planned for. This time around I won’t go into details of our actual story. First because it get so […]

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

Not Dead… but not all that well either…

March 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This post is going to get a bit personal feel free to skip… 🙂 As you may have noticed, the flow of posts has slowed down in the last few weeks. I’m dealing with a certain amount of stress-induced anxiety related to both my job and the blog (The family and my physical health are […]

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Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: The Crowning Moment of a Character

March 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

As I reading through the recent changes on TVtropes.org, I stumbled upon a Trope whose application to RPGs is as simple as it is brilliant: Crowning Moment Of Awesome The moment in a show when a character does something for which they will be remembered forever, winning for them the eternal loyalty of fans. While […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games, Tropes Tagged With: mini-post, Tropes

Ending a Campaign: a Few Tips

March 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

It’s no secret that with the advent of the next edition of D&D, I have endings on the mind. While I’ve still got to make my final decision to adopt 4e upon reading the new Core books over the summer, chances are we are going to go the 4e way. I know many others are […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Theme week:Endings

You want to end… D&D? White Wolf’s ready…

March 12, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m not dead… I’ve hit one of those deadly pockets of ‘work’ that drain all energy and creativity from your being. Plus my Friday game is not yet ready. If I finish early tonight, I’ll put up a short ‘ending your campaign’ post with tips. In the meantime, here’s something interesting that Tommi sent me. […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Theme week:Endings

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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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