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Registered for Gen Con!

February 4, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Well it’s done. I registered for Gen Con and I booked the Hotel. I’ll be staying at the swanky Omni Severin hotel which, apparently, sits about 0,2 miles from the Convention Center. Wee! It’s going to be my 1st stay in Indianapolis and my 1st Gen Con experience. I’ll stock up on sleep beforehand! Here’s […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: gen con 2008

Pathfinder #4 preview: Wolfgang Baur must really hate me

February 4, 2008 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. Yeah I haven’t done one of those in quite some time (Dec 7 to be more precise) for a very good reason, I never got my #4 issue of Pathfinder (written by none other […]

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

Chatty’s Review: Alex Robinson Lower Region’s

February 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

A few weeks ago, I got an email from a Leigh Walton from Top shelf productions saying they were sending me a copy of a Sword & Sorcery Graphic Novel by artist Alex Robinson ‘for my consideration’. I assume this is a nice way to say “feel free to review it on your blog”. Once […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Uncategorized Tagged With: Comic Book, Lower Regions

Chatty’s Review: Alex Robinson Lower Region's

February 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

A few weeks ago, I got an email from a Leigh Walton from Top shelf productions saying they were sending me a copy of a Sword & Sorcery Graphic Novel by artist Alex Robinson ‘for my consideration’. I assume this is a nice way to say “feel free to review it on your blog”. Once […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Uncategorized Tagged With: Comic Book, Lower Regions

I cast Magic Missile!

February 2, 2008 by The Chatty DM

There used to be that old animated video on the web about a group of dweebs playing D&D, I just found a ‘new’ version done with Final Fantasy sprites… Hey that Video plugin does work!

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM

Mini-Links: Whole Wheat Bastard Boardgame Ninjas!

February 1, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Ahhh it’s Friday afternoon, a snowstorm rages on Montreal and my boss just gave us the day rest of the day off… Of course, on Fridays, our lab is drenched in fresh blood samples that we can’t leave on the bench for 3 days, so while I can relax and kickback a bit, I have […]

Filed Under: Game Hacks & Content, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Link Love, mini-post

Magic Online III Beta.

January 31, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m too tired to write a post tonight so I’m sharing a little Magic the Gathering goodness to those who would like to play for free (I think you need to have a Magic Online 2,5 account though). Magic Online players, We’re hoping that you, along with thousands of other MOL players across the globe […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Uncategorized Tagged With: magic the gathering

Mini-Blog: Recent and coming changes to Blog.

January 31, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m currently moving a few things around this blog and changing things as I grow more comfortable with it. In parallel, Graham is hacking me a new swanky theme and I’ll switch to it as soon as everything is done (and you’ll finally see the new banner). So while we wait here are a few […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: mini-post

Chatty’s Review: Silvervine, Basic Challenge Mechanics

January 30, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This post is part of a series that tackles the reading review of a yet unpublished RPG called Silvervine. Please note that this game is still in development, my review is part of the pre-playtest feedback. Last time I tackled Character Generation, now it’s time for the 1st (of 3) posts on the game’s Crunchy […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Mini-Post: Shamus' new game

January 29, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Yesterday, Shamus Young posted about concluding his D&D campaign and starting a new one. One of his key challenges was that everybody in his large group (8 players) wanted to play a different style/theme than the rest. D&D was chosen last time because it’s the default game that his group seems to have agreed to. […]

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

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