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Guest Post: Perspective on Weekend Wizards from a closet Half-Orc…

October 23, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: PM himself with a little help with a South Park creator, I would guess. Chatty DM: Welcome to the first of what I hope will become a series of posts by PM. PM is a friend of ours who has yet to succumb to the sweet call of RPGs, but the Evil Overlord […]

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

Yet another Milestone

October 22, 2007 by The Chatty DM

This is just a short meta-blogging message to mark my 100th post in this here blog. I can’t believe that in only 10 weeks I wrote between 70 000 and 100 000 words already! Isn’t that like a novel or something? While I originally was doing this for myself and some of my players (and […]

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

A Fey’s Journal, 3rd entry. Part 1

October 22, 2007 by The Chatty DM

What a day! Well just as I finished writing my last entry Cruguer complained that I did not pay enough attention to his martial exploits. Well this is something I surely intend to pay attention to from now on. So let’s get down to business. We are in this cave, discussing our next course of […]

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

DM Chronicles, Session 4: The Storytellers' Ball, part 2

October 22, 2007 by The Chatty DM

See here for the 1st part of this DM log.So the characters, victorious over the Big Bad and his sidekick, were battered, bruised and the players were showing the 1st signs of being tired (it was getting close to 9 pm). I still had 9 Spriggan mooks and a lab to go through. That’s when […]

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

New look!

October 21, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: Me, Simpsonize me and The Gimp Hot on the heels of Dr Rotwang’s sexy robotic revamp and similar makeovers over at Critical-Hits, Dungeonmastering and Treasure Tables, I decided to leave behind Blogger’s default header and go with a more personal touch. With a mug shot, the Simpsonize me site and a lot of […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

DM Chronicles, Session 4: The Storytellers' Ball, part 1

October 21, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: Wizards of the Coast. Previously in Chatty DM’s game:The Characters were investigating the source of a new drug called ‘Green Welcome’ that appeared in the Warrens of Ptolus. This drug has a tendency to transforms its users in horrible Plant-like creatures. Following a tip by a shady dealer, our heroes have started exploring […]

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

Gone for the weekend…

October 19, 2007 by The Chatty DM

I just came back from one of the best Gaming evening I’ve had in quite some time. I think our gaming group might be close to returning to the performing stage! However, I don’t have time to write about it just yet. It’s very late, I’m tired and I have a Halloween party to prepare […]

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Cry Crunch and lets slit the Fluff off War!

October 18, 2007 by The Chatty DM

I see that after a bit less than 24 hours of polling, my pain-med induced Overlord Crunch of Madness posts aren’t that popular. I still need to see this one to the end though. I’m therefore giving this post a double mandate: Finish off what I started against my Nemesis and giving you a few […]

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

Save Keys to open doors…

October 17, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Unrelated Preface: I had dinner with Yax of Dungeonmastering.com on Monday night. He’s in Montreal for a few months and I’m glad I got to meet a fellow blogger. Yax sure is passionate about what he does and he has a plan… (which makes him a Cylon, obviously. Don’t be fooled by his boyish Dr. […]

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

Mining Tropes for RPG nuggets: The Blessed Cursed.

October 16, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: WotC’s Ravenloft baby! This is part of a continuing series of articles that tackles the concepts of tropes and how they can be applied by a DM/GM to improve their favorite Role-Playing game adventures. It is heavily inspired by the sheer goodness of the TV Tropes Wiki.This afternoon, while Gtalking with PM, my […]

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