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Chatty's Out of the Box #000.1

January 25, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m currently fooling around with the idea of creating a Photo webcomic… not seriously, I have no time for that… but the idea is slowly eating whatever’s left of my brain. So I downloaded the Comic Book Creator demo and started playing with it. Here’s what I came up with… I had to go through […]

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Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat…

January 24, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Sooooo, a few days ago Vanir puts up a post about what his Epic Level Heavy-Metal Bard called Bat Loaf did when he was riding the Tarrasque with his pals. My brain broke down somewhere down the line but now that my memory matrix has been reconstructed, it seems that Bat Loaf got his metal […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: DMing

Robin's Laws Revisited: Part 2, Player Types and Traits

January 23, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This post is part of a new series that explores Robin Laws’ seminal work on GMing. This time I tackle the book’s fundamental subject of player types and what they seek in RPGs. Part one can be found here. The second chapter of Robin’s Laws of Good Game Mastering brings up the subject that knowing […]

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

Character Genesis: New characters for Pathfinder #1.

January 22, 2008 by The Chatty DM

A few months ago, I prepared a demo D&D game for PM, his friend Vince, and Franky’s brother Mike, all newbies to RPGs or D&D 3.5 in general. Franky had joined to even out the group and act as the expert on the players side. Our game session, based on Paizo’s excellent Pathfinder #1 adventure, […]

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

Adventure Prep: Strapping it all together to get it going good!

January 21, 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. Our next D&D game is Friday night. Weeee! This time we’ll be missing our Archer as Franky will be working during the evening (he’s […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: DMing, Tropes

Welcome new Readers!

January 21, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Post Publication Edit: As today’s traffic is already rising sharply, My good friend, and sometime blog contributor, PM reminded me that I should tell you that it’s not impossible the site goes down a few times, each for a few minutes, during the day. The Blog’s template is a bit buggy and some php scripts […]

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I might be in the wrong buisness here…

January 20, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Yup… as predictable as a specialist role player’s choice of character, this trimester’s Magic the Gathering Pre-release tournament was upon us this weekend. I originally started writing this at 7h00 am this morning before going to the tournament, but my wife ran out of coffee. I therefore put on my husband Superhero suit and went […]

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

Chatty’s Review: Silvervine, Character Generation

January 19, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This post is part of a series that tackles the reading review of a yet unpublished RPG called Silvervine. Please note that this game is still in development, my review is part of the pre-playtest feedback. Last time I tackled the games 1st chapter and the mixed feelings I got as a first impression. Now […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Getting back in the game!

January 17, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Along with other RPG GMing bloggers, I was contacted by Role-playing Tips guru, Johnn Four this week to contribute to his next Newsletter. Not wanting to miss the exposition of being read by so many people, I happily accepted. Heck he even offered to let us use our submission as a post for our blog! […]

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

Feeding the Geek

January 17, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Short micro non-RPG geek post. Many of the people who read blogs do so through Feed readers (there are a ton out there, I use Google Reader myself, plugged in my iGoogle page). When this blog gets accessed by this feed here it’s considered to have 1 subscriber. (BTW I’m aware that image are weirdly […]

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

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