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Mini-Fluff: Pathfinder #3 Preview

December 7, 2007 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 I got issue #3 of this amazing OGL compliant adventure series about 2 weeks ago. Time for another capsule review/preview. Issue number one was about Crazy Gobbo’s and an insane Assinar. Issue number #2 […]

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

DM Chronicles, Session 7: Of Performing Crunch and Norming Fluff, Part 2

December 6, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Blog lessons learned: Never post a ‘Part one’ on Wednesday night… it guarantees no comments on the highest traffic day! Next time’ 2 entries articles’ will posted on same day with a few hours in between. See here for part 1. When a Custom Scene Blows Up in Your Face So the players made their […]

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

DM Chronicles, Session 7: Of Performing Crunch and Norming Fluff, Part 1

December 5, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: Paizo’s Pathfinder, Lamia Matriarch, copyright 2007 Paizo publishing (under Fair Use). Please note that this post features spoilers of Paizo’s Pathfinder #2, more precisely the nature of it’s boss monster. Previously in Phil’s game: The heroes vanquished the last Child of Sehan, squared off against a Succubus (and won), dodged deadly traps and […]

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

A Fey's Journal: Under Ptolus' Necropolis (Second day, early morning)

December 4, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: Art from Song of Serenity (Magic the Gathering, Exodus, Wizards of the Coast), Copyright 2005 Tony DiTerlizzi (Check his site!), used with the artists’ permission. Here is another of Yan’s player log detailing last Friday’s continuing tomb crawling (I think he’s getting bored about it, but maybe that’s just me…. Tee Hee like […]

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

The Brooch of Hunting, Design Postmortem.

December 4, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Did you see Dungeonmastering’s Top 50 RPG sites yet? It’s a good roundup of many of the great RPG-related sites out there. Of course the fact that I’m in 4th place has absolutely nothing to do with me pimping it right now. No Siree. Absolutely not! It never crossed my mind! As mentioned before, I […]

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

Tabletops & Tropers: That would make such a…

December 2, 2007 by The Chatty DM

While looking at the TV Tropes Wiki for inspiration for my next trope post, a recurring idea kept coming back. You know that thing where a bunch of gamer geeks come out of the latest Superhero/Spy/ Action/Sci-Fi/Fantasy movie and they have this discussion: “Dude, this, like, totally rocked!” says the extroverted enthusiastic geek! “Yeah, ’twas […]

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

Mini-Links: Evil Editions and Vicious Superstar Scandinavian Clambake!

December 1, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Ahhh, the Echo Chamber: taking other people’s stuff and talking about it on your site. I haven’t done one of those in some time, so here’s a short post on stuff I found cool lately. Evil in Mythic Scandinavia Yeah, Beowulf is out and I must say that Grendel’s mom is quite the MILTFAW (…to […]

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

StumbleUpon broke my blog…well almost.

November 30, 2007 by The Chatty DM

As you may know, I usually get between 50 and 80 unique readers a day here. Once a week, usually either on Mondays or Thursdays, I go over the 100 readers mark and it’s all good. I also have been self-promoting my stuff on StumbleUpon, quite a bit. Well, enough to be gently chided about […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

Mini-Fluff: Chatty's Top Fluff sources!

November 29, 2007 by The Chatty DM

What better way to complete this week’s unofficial ‘become a DM’ theme and sandwich PM’s most excellent post with yet another Top 5 list? In order to balance my crunchy Ying with some fluffy Yang here’s a few words on my top Fluff books and boxed sets. Now since I’m not much of a fluff […]

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

PWW: The Apprentice Half-Orc DM

November 28, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Here’s the time for another Perspective on Weekend Wizards post by PM. This week our boy has started to contemplate something that may very well break his spirit and steal his soul. Enjoy! In my previous post, my inner closet half-orc was last seen running in the hills and howling at the moon after enjoying […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: DMing, The Closet Half Orc

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