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Adventure Prep: Planning Ahead for the End

March 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This series covers the thoughts that go behind my Adventure Preps. I don’t go into details as my players read this blog, but I try to showcase the key challenges and choices I face every time I sit down in the days before we play. Game week again! For those who don’t know, our group […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Theme week:Endings

Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: This is the End, Friend

March 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

No no, I’m not ending this series, no worries. As mentioned here, I’m exploring “Endings” as applied to RPG campaigns… Many long-lasting Role playing campaigns based on power-gaining PCs hinge around a progressively increasing threat that almost invariably escalate to the World Destroying level. The threat usually takes the form of an impeding Cataclysm that […]

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

Theme Week: Endings

March 8, 2008 by The Chatty DM

As I was planning my blogging week I realized that I had a running theme going on. So much so that I decided to make it official! Since I’m planning the end of my D&D 3.5 campaign in the next 3 months, I decided to spend the week dealing with endings of all kinds: Today’s […]

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

Pathfinder #6 preview and conclusion: The Lost City of Adventure’s End

March 8, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I just got the notification that issue #7 was shipped this week. That made me realize that I had to write a short blurb on the final issue of Paizo’s Rise of Runelords Adventure Path. Issue #6: Spires of Xin-Shalast brings the stories of ancient, evil Sin-magic and the old empires based on them to […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Uncategorized Tagged With: pathfinder

Chatty’s Out of the Box #004: Memories…

March 7, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Here’s my Webcomic tribute to a great man. As usual, click on the thumbnail (and possibly once again on the picture) to get the sharpest image. It’s funny how many memories one can keep of this game. All stories you see in the comic truly happened and featured, my friends Nicolas (panel 1, gone to […]

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

GaryCon

March 6, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Borrowed from The Evil DM’s blog (and adapted): World-Wide GaryCon this weekend! By now everyone I’m sure has heard of the passing of Gary Gygax. One of the best suggestions so far for a fitting tribute is GaryCon. Basically GaryCon is about gaming. This weekend take some time and play a game. Run a game […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Gaming with Kids

YABM (Yet another Blog Milestone)

March 6, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This morning I hit 200 RSS subscribers for the 1st time! Yay! I am getting used to the fact that this Blog thing is for real, I’m still amazed that people follow my ramblings. As always, I thank you all! I’m keeping with my decision of doing few (or light) posts this week. I’ll be […]

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

DM Chronicles, Session 12: The Great Game! Part 2

March 5, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Life goes on… See part 1 here. So when I left off in part 1, Nogard had been accosted in his Dragon Temple by Plantagonox, the Juvenile Bronze Dragon errand boy of House Dallimothan (i.e. The Dragon-friendly Noble House of Ptolus). When ‘Gonox asked Nogard if he know about Xorvindaal, Nogard responded that he did […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: dragon

Thanks Gary… Peace be unto you.

March 4, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I just read from Dave that E. Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons died. Enworld is down, probably from traffic overload. But the story is creeping up on the net and CNN confirmed it. I owe my favorite hobby and way of life to this man. I would have wished to thank him in […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Hot nerd girl! (Safe for work)

March 4, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I Found this video on Dane of War‘s blog by way of Jeff the Evil DM‘s blog. She’s got other stuff that she posted here. I don’t know if she has a blog… I like her style! Nerd/geek girls are the best for us guy geeks. I married one and I bless my luck every […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

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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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