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Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: What a Coincidence!

November 12, 2007 by The Chatty DM

It’s been some time since I last posted an article in the Tropes series. What can I say? It’s been a busy 2 weeks! This post will tie in directly with tomorrow’s Adventure Prep post for this week’s game. There you are, sitting wherever it is you sit when preparing your next adventure. You want […]

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

I dig my new digs! Thanks everyone!

November 12, 2007 by The Chatty DM

The move is done and the furniture is in place. A few things will stay wonky for some time but all critical things are in place. The Fortress of Crunch is open for business! (Try fluffing me out of this dear Mr. Baur! Mwa Ha ha ha!!!) I’d like to thanks the following people who […]

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

The (annotated) case reports of Agent James (Kevin) Smith: First Assignment

November 11, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Decrypted from a genital enhancement spam on alt.conspiracy.inconnu on November 11, 2007. Author: KnowthetruthS911. Case report #20071110-JKS-A Location: Chicago Regional HQ On November 9, 2007, we were assigned to an investigation case pertaining to the death and dismemberment of a John Doe, discovered by local Law Enforcement forces in one of Chicago’s industrial centers (See […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Chatty as a Player, McWoD

Services functional but still wonky…

November 11, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Okay… I’ve spent way too much time on this… As ve4grm said, it’s obvious there isn’t a theme that will work perfectly for what I have in mind, ans I just may very well have one done custom… I’ll stick to the current Sci-Fi one for the moment as it looks good and allows the […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

1st coat of paint finished… looks good

November 10, 2007 by The Chatty DM

I finally found a theme I like. Easy on the eyes, modern look. You might have also noticed that all the posts and comments were imported successfully here… Joy! It’s not very RPG though… but I guess if I change the header I can go somewhere. Now next step is to add my own widgets!

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

The big Move starts today!

November 10, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Sketch by Veronica Pare (She’s awesome!!!!) I just secured my very own domain name (Thanks Ve4!) and opened me an honest to God Web site! I installed WordPress on it… you can see it in all it’s empty splendor at: chattydm.net (simple, elegant, refined… so totally unlike me!) It will have its own email (chattydm(at)chattydm(dot)(net). […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

Chatty DM's Move: Signed the lease and started the painting…

November 10, 2007 by The Chatty DM

So far so good. I like the themes I’ve installed so far.Now I’m going through the tutorial so things are butt ugly…. Since I’m going to lose my 19 levels of Technorati rating soon, I might has well cheat a bit… My original blog is here. It bugs me that image posting is not as […]

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

Generating a PC's personality on the fly

November 9, 2007 by The Chatty DM

A few days ago, my good friend Stupid Ranger posted on inspiration about playing the game and writing about it in the blog. In that post I added a comment about an interesting experience I had with my friend Math. I’m reposting an expanded version of the comment here… not very original I agree, but […]

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

Chatty Player's Corner: Character Genesis

November 9, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Well it was only a matter of time. Franky went completely bonkers over Monte’s World of Darkness d20 game and he’s bought d20 Modern, the Menace Manual and other books of the genre… I can’t say I blame him… I mean look at my library… and those are mostly 3.5 books! Anyhoo, while we were […]

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

DM Chronicles, Session 5: Graveyard Shift, Part 2

November 8, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Part 1 can be found here. The players decided to go explore the Necropolis to find where the seven plant-creatures that survived the streets of Ptolus were headed for. They met once again with the leaders of the Keepers of the Veil who gave them another healing package (a 5 charge wand of Restoration and […]

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