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No post tonight, Reading Silvervine!

January 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Tonight, I’m going to spend the time I usually write these post to do some intense reading of John Arcadian’s Silvervine game rules. my free time/available energy ratio is pretty low right now so I have to prioritize even my hobbies… And I really want to tackle the review of the crunchy bits of John’s […]

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

Mini-Fluff'N'Crunch: Requiem for my Bronze Friend

January 15, 2008 by The Chatty DM

That perfidious and oh so diabolical Yax has been reading all those “WotC presents” books and, through his Red Dragon comic-relief Minion Expy, has announced that our cherished Wizards on the Coast are revamping the dragons. One thing that broke my heart a bit (the cynics will say that WotC has ripped out theirs long […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Uncategorized Tagged With: Crunch, fluff, mini-post, Tropes

Mining Tropes for RPG Goodness: Fighting Depression with some Deep Pression!

January 14, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This is the blog’s 200th post! I’ve written a lot of stuff in the last few months, and I’ve enjoyed it immensely. Thank you one and all for giving me the continued gratification of reading these many lines! Now instead of making this a stats-laden article, I thought I’d write another post from my most […]

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

DM Chronicles, Session 9: Troubled re-beginnings

January 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This is a continuing series on my current D&D campaign with my buddies. I had no illusions that this week’s game was going to be stellar. My 1st goal of the evening was to get with my pals for the 1st the of the new year and celebrate my 35th Birthday (which was yesterday) and […]

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

My tools of the trade, Part 2

January 11, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Back in October I posted about the tools and props I used in my D&D games. Well since my game is ready and good to go, I took a few more pictures of how I organize my things to have the smoothest of Crunchy game sessions. My DMing Corner: I have a recently renovated room […]

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

The 4e OGL: Joining forces with my Nemesis

January 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

A lot of digital ink has flowed on the subject of the changes to the way the 4e OGL will be handled. I’ve chimed in on Critical Hits and Omnius’ blog about it. The debate rages on and will for some time and I don’t want to spend any more on this than needed (It’s […]

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

What Awaits my Players…

January 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I finished my game prep early enough to drop by here and make another mini-post. This time it’s a preview of what awaits my players and is also a showcase of what you can do with the D&D battlemaps, tiles and miniatures. First we have our heroes leaving the Styx’ Oarsman, a newly opened inn […]

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

Mini-Link: Iron Heroes Total Fanboi cop-out from an actual post

January 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

That title reminds me that I still haven’t received my Pathfinder #4 yet… I need to drop Paizo a line… The US Postal Service is, shall we say, not the swiftest there is. I already mentioned there might not be a post tonight, well this one is, sort of. It’s just not as meaty as […]

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

New Search feature being playtested

January 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Following Greywulf’s glowing review, I signed up for Lijit’s search service which offers full blog search as well as for those of my blogroll and other feeds I added to it. Fell free to play with it and comment on how it turns out. If you prefer the original WordPress one, just tell me (and […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

(Not so)Mini-Crunch: Magic loot by any other name.

January 8, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m fresh back from the Gym, proud in my willpower to have resisted the pull of World of Warcraft and the Blog to take care of me first…. I’m also quite aware of the WotC announcement about the way they plan to handle the next version of the OGL and it’s associated brand license (the […]

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

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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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