Dr. Reiner Knizia, one of the best known and most successful boardgame designers, was one of the Guests of Honor at Origins this year. I showed up to one of his panels, entitled “Creation of a Successful Game”, a few minutes late due to late night D&D the evening before. When I arrived, he had […]
What’s your disgustingly good local dish?
I’m smack dab in the middle of my Gen Con preparation week (which will likely bleed over into the next one). This means that whatever I post here is going to be very light in relevant content. Since I can’t shut up and I hate silence, I put up little texts just to let you […]
Mini-Post: Ascension of the Drow and 4e Fantastic Terrain
Gen Con Drow Insanity This morning I had an email by Nicholas Logue, adventure writer extraordinaire from both Paizo and his own Sinister Adventures. Here it is: Hi All! If you are on this list, it means you have volunteered to GM and or assist with the Ascension of the Drow mega-event at Gencon this […]
Random Thoughts: Story Telling Dungeon Crawling Kids in Diablo’s Caves to Crit Mearls
(Told you I would not last a week) I was supposed to be at work, getting ready for the arrival of a new colleague in my team but my 6 year old son has developed a case of Chicken Pox. I’m therefore at home, playing some Raving Rabbits 2 with him and drawing some Manga […]
Taking a break for some Gen Con Prep
All right, up to now, whenever I posted about posting less, I always ended up posting more. However, I now have to write quite a few pages worth of Trope and Player type GM tips and advice for the Gen Con seminar I’ll be co-hosting with DNAPhil and Vicki Potter. I also need to do […]
Chatty’s Wow Posse: So it starts
Image Credit: Heliopolis at Deviant art So I joined the Kirin Tor Server after reading that Shamus Young was trying it (and if you read between the lines of his recent posts) liking it. I was well received in the Pig & Whistle Society guild and have also had the pleasure of buggin Shamus with […]
Chatty’s Review: The D&D 4e Player’s Handbook
Last week, I reviewed the DMG and found it to be the best version of this long-lived book. It wasn’t without flaws, chiefly among those was how the writing of Skill Challenges was doing the mechanic near-criminal injustice. This week, I’ll tackle the 4th Edition Players Handbook, from the standpoint of its content and then […]
Chatty’s Debates: The Relative Merits of Action-Oriented RolePlaying
I know that this here site has been somewhat content-lighter lately. Summer has arrived and I start to feel the pull for other evening activities than blogging. Also, since I don’t have a game going anymore, gone are the periodic DM logs or Game Prep posts. There’s nothing to be worried about, just a more […]
Chatty’s Gen Con (and contest update)
It’s done, I just purchased my plane tickets for Gen Con Indianapolis 2008. I will be there mostly for one thing, and it’s meeting with fellow bloggers, readers and some industry people I’ve quipped and had fun with since I have been online (You better have those Electo-fluff cannons ready and buffed Mr. Baur). I […]
New Contest: The One Sentence NPC!
We’ve had a few contests, here at Musings of the Chatty DM. For instance, we recently had the very successful 10 word Adventure and very useful Characterization ones. Now it’s time for something bigger! I have teamed up with RPG e-Zine mogul Johnn Four (of roleplayingtips.comfame) to bring you the biggest independent RPG-themed contest to […]
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