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Adventure Prep: Of Planescaping and High Intensity Hacking, Part 1

December 27, 2007 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

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

DM Chronicles, Session 8: Heroic Conclusions

December 26, 2007 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

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

A very Goblin X-mas

December 25, 2007 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

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

My Perfect Geeky Christmas list!

December 24, 2007 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

Mini-Trope: No, I won't let you tell me about your character…

December 22, 2007 by The Chatty DM

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… […]

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

Chatty's Review: Silvervine, Introduction

December 21, 2007 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

No post tonight… Wifey's Birthday!

December 20, 2007 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

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Adventure Prep: Finishing a Campaign Arc

December 19, 2007 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

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

Holiday Blog schedule, some Stats and Season's Wishes!

December 18, 2007 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

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

Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: Ice Ice Baby!

December 17, 2007 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

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

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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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