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Rogue’s Gallery

February 24, 2008 by The Chatty DM

For those who missed it. Wizards if the Coast previewed the 4e Rogue’s abilities. Sticking to my low 4e hype mission, I invite you to drop by Dave and Bart’s Critical hits for the discussion. I’ll only add that what really sparks my interest is the Attacks vs Wis, Dex or Fort mechanics thatare a […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Updating the social contract

February 23, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Last night we spent the evening playing Magic the Gathering because 2 of our players were missing. Our current social contract stipulates that if one player is missing, we play but if two aren’t there, we postpone the game. We’ve had this “clause” for about 5 years and it’s worked pretty well. However, we’ve had […]

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

Martial Arts + Chinese Bear + Jack Black = COOL!

February 22, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Yeah I’m in a YouTube mood… John, I want you to stat me up a Kung Fu Panda in Silvervine for Gen Con, not negociable!

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

The Guild, a WoW micro Sitcom.

February 22, 2008 by The Chatty DM

It’s probably old hat for a lot of you but a few weeks ago, friends of mine stumbled onto that… Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 You can find the next 7 here. I took a day off today (yay!) but the D&D game was cancelled because of lack of two players…. I guess I’ll […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

Robin’s Laws Revisited: Part 3, Picking up your set of rules

February 21, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This post is part of a series that explores Robin Laws’ seminal work on GMing, Robin’s Laws of Good Gamemastering and adds my thoughts on the same subject. This time, we tackle choosing a Rule set which is very actual since we’re at the butt end of D&D’s current edition. Part 1 can be found […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: DMing, Robin Laws

Guest Post over at Dungeonmastering.com

February 21, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Good morning. If you aren’t already a regular reader of Yax’ Dungeonmastering blog, I invite you to head over there for a guest post I wrote about the OGL license. The DNDreview blog already added a few comments on it that are very interesting. So feel free to comment over there as I get the […]

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DM Chronicles: The legend of the Broken Dice, Session 2, Part 2

February 20, 2008 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. Before getting into the actual dungeon crawl, as pointed out by Yan in the comments yesterday, I realized that PM was the only PC moving at a speed of 4 squares (20′). He was wearing Scale Mail, which has the same AC bonus as a Chain Shirt, only cheaper and bulkier. […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: D&D for Newbies, pathfinder, Teaching RPGs

DM Chronicles: The legend of the Broken Dice, Session 2, Part 1

February 19, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Way back in October, I played a one shot adventure using Paizo’s Pathfinder #1, Burnt Offering. I wrote the session’s log here. We reconvened last Sunday for another session in a day long geekfest of Dim Sum, Anime and D&D. So on Sunday Morning we arrived at PM’s palace of Cats (he has 2) in […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: D&D for Newbies, pathfinder, Teaching RPGs

The Echo Chamber: 10 worst reasons to blog, Part 2

February 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m dead tired, so I’ll tackle this instead on writing a sub-par Session report of our Pathfinder for newbies game (which went well for all except PM, he sucks at dice, period!) See part 1 here. The List is taken from Geeks are Sexy and posted by Piggybankpie‘s Patrick. Let’s continue, shall we? 6. Busted […]

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Happy B’ Day Mr. Washington

February 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

As I can see from the vertiginous drop in readership, this be a long weekend for my American readers. Wikipedia graciously informed me that this holiday is actually to commemorate George Washington’s B’day (do note that American History is not taught up here in Canuck land). Well, enjoy your day off one and all. I’m […]

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