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Chatty's Newly Renovated Abode!

February 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Welcome one and all to the newest incarnation of this here blog! With the tireless help of Graham, (well, more than that really, he hacked the whole theme!) I present you the newest theme, complete with the awesome banner done by artist Veronica Pare. Late last year when I was still writing over my Blogger-based […]

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

Chatty’s Newly Renovated Abode!

February 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Welcome one and all to the newest incarnation of this here blog! With the tireless help of Graham, (well, more than that really, he hacked the whole theme!) I present you the newest theme, complete with the awesome banner done by artist Veronica Pare. Late last year when I was still writing over my Blogger-based […]

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

Finally a manual for the rest of them!

February 8, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: Stupid Ranger (did you know this pictures shows up on Google Image’s 1st page using ‘nerd’? I’m impressed!) My good friend Nicolas, an ex-player whose moved on to, shall we say, blonder pastures in Sweden sent me something while I was asleep. As a follow up to my musings on geekdom/nerdistry, here is […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

Saying goodbye to a PC: Lillee’s letter to Cruguer.

February 7, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Lillee, Yan’s Pixie Arcane Caster is leaving the group this week to be replaced by a new character. While our group hasn’t developed strong ties or built any spectacular interrelations, there was something building between Lillee’s concern for Cruger’s well being and Cruguer’s pained tolerance of that somewhat annoying little ball of energy. For those […]

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

Saying goodbye to a PC: Lillee's letter to Cruguer.

February 7, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Lillee, Yan’s Pixie Arcane Caster is leaving the group this week to be replaced by a new character. While our group hasn’t developed strong ties or built any spectacular interrelations, there was something building between Lillee’s concern for Cruger’s well being and Cruguer’s pained tolerance of that somewhat annoying little ball of energy. For those […]

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

Tweaking Classes for Cooler Characters: The Shaper postmortem

February 6, 2008 by The Chatty DM

A while back, Yan and I designed a new D&D core class based on the Monster Manual’s Pixie and Monte Cook’s variant Sorcerer (from the Complete book of Eldritch Might, or CBoEM) called the Shaper. Yan has been using/playtesting it for the last 6 or 7 sessions in our game.  For reasons I explained yesterday, […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Adventure Prep: When the end of an era draws near

February 5, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This post is part of a series that covers the preparations I do for my current D&D campaign. You can follow it here and the various DM logs I wrote here. Yup it’s another game week for Chatty’s gang as I pick up and read through Expeditions to the Demonweb pits and try to hack […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM

Registered for Gen Con!

February 4, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Well it’s done. I registered for Gen Con and I booked the Hotel. I’ll be staying at the swanky Omni Severin hotel which, apparently, sits about 0,2 miles from the Convention Center. Wee! It’s going to be my 1st stay in Indianapolis and my 1st Gen Con experience. I’ll stock up on sleep beforehand! Here’s […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: gen con 2008

Pathfinder #4 preview: Wolfgang Baur must really hate me

February 4, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This is a continuing series of short posts on Paizo’s Pathfinder adventure path magazine. The image is Copyright 2007 Paizo Publishings. Yeah I haven’t done one of those in quite some time (Dec 7 to be more precise) for a very good reason, I never got my #4 issue of Pathfinder (written by none other […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: fluff, pathfinder, Rant

Chatty’s Review: Alex Robinson Lower Region's

February 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

A few weeks ago, I got an email from a Leigh Walton from Top shelf productions saying they were sending me a copy of a Sword & Sorcery Graphic Novel by artist Alex Robinson ‘for my consideration’. I assume this is a nice way to say “feel free to review it on your blog”. Once […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Uncategorized Tagged With: Comic Book, Lower Regions

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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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