Here I sit, mentally preparing myself for the next half of our D&D 07-08 season. As I promised my players almost 5 months ago, I’m sending them Plane-hoping in the Great Cosmic Wheel. I’m done reading Planescape and while I love the setting’s potential, I was rather irritated by the late 90’s “Storytelling is a […]
DM Chronicles, Session 8: Heroic Conclusions
Previously in Phil’s game: Our Heroes beat the leader of the Cult of Sehan and various other aberrations in an ancient tomb that predates modern Ptolus. After a short rest on Andach’s island, they returned, searching for a way to that pool of glowing green slime that may or may not contain Sehan. They had […]
A very Goblin X-mas
What would be X-mas morning without a Goblin Song…. (Taken from the Paizo Blog) (Sung to the tune of Jingle Bells) Sneaking through your yard, Going through your stuff, Hope you didn’t like your dog; we got a little rough! Tied him to a stump. Lit the stump on fire. Maybe you’ll wake up in […]
My Perfect Geeky Christmas list!
The Soap image comes from Sean K. Reynolds’ wife business. She makes Geeky soaps, have a look! Here’s my list: I want someone working at WotC to comment on my blog I want my wife to download the second season of Heroes I want D&D 4e to be as kickass as what the previews make […]
Mini-Trope: No, I won't let you tell me about your character…
A few weeks ago, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek post about tropish DMs. Tonight I felt like tackling the equivalent for players. Once again this is going to be a satirical post and not an actual critic on play style. As usual, if this offends you…. ah heck, it’s not like I’m shopping for new players… […]
Chatty's Review: Silvervine, Introduction
Shortly after I re-posted Greywulf’s ‘DM/GM requirements Specification’ for a RPG (called the Dungeonmaster’s Creed), I got an Email from John Arcadian who I knew as a longtime Treasure Tables Commenter. Well after having read the Creed, John told me that he and a few collaborators, were working on a new RPG system called Silvervine […]
No post tonight… Wifey's Birthday!
Yeah my beautiful Half-Celestial wife Alexandra turns ## today (Yeah like I’d say that on the Web and expect to live). The whole family is going to the restaurant tonight and I don’t think that going online to blog after the kids are in bed is going to make me a popular guy in the […]
Adventure Prep: Finishing a Campaign Arc
This Friday is the year’s last game session. It also coincides with the last session of the Seed of Sehan campaign arc I adapted from Dungeon Magazine to Ptolus. See here for the whole Campaign so far… As mentioned before, the game has been prepared for quite some time now and I’ve had time to […]
Holiday Blog schedule, some Stats and Season's Wishes!
Yup, Christmas vacations are coming. I’m lucky to get a full week off work and I will enjoy it. On the blog side, I’ve adopted a temporary daily Mini-post (500 words or less) strategy since last weekend and I plan to maintain it up until January 2nd or so. Of course, I’ll drop by with […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: Ice Ice Baby!
This morning, I posted about my Winter adventures on the forums here. That’s my car if you were wondering… after I dug it out! Shortly after, Omnius, who’s allergic to snow I’m told, wrote a good weather-themed post. Well all that snow and ice also inspired me to go dig in the TV tropes site […]
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