In which Chatty DM rambles about the cool things brought on by blogging. On July 24th, 2007 after 2 failed attempts on MSN Space and Live Journal, I finally made a jump to blogging using Google’s Blogger. Having no clear idea what to actually talk about, I started rambling about my future campaign, online tools, […]
My D&D Flavour: House Rules for Badass Heroes.
Tommi made a post suggestion in my last Adventure Prep post: “How about a brief summary of the house rules you use for those who have not read everything you have ever posted”? I’m happy to comply…. except for the brief part. 😀 The core of the rules we use is D&D 3.5 with a […]
Holy Green Giant Clay Golem!
This is a short mini-post just to showcase my latest D&D Miniature acquisitions. As I usually do, I buy 2 boosters of each and every D&D mini series they make. The latest one, Desert of Desolation is full of goodies for my future game sessions. Look a Bone Devil, a Spined Devil, a Fire elemental, […]
Game Doctors: Tales of the Arabian Nights
A friend and member of my design group Jacob started a series of articles under the heading of “Game Doctors” to try and fix published games under our watchful eye. There are a few games that we’ve started playing quite often, but being the perfectionist game designers we are, have made a few changes. So […]
Adventure Prep: Of Planescaping and High Intensity Hacking, Part 1
Here I sit, mentally preparing myself for the next half of our D&D 07-08 season. As I promised my players almost 5 months ago, I’m sending them Plane-hoping in the Great Cosmic Wheel. I’m done reading Planescape and while I love the setting’s potential, I was rather irritated by the late 90’s “Storytelling is a […]
DM Chronicles, Session 8: Heroic Conclusions
Previously in Phil’s game: Our Heroes beat the leader of the Cult of Sehan and various other aberrations in an ancient tomb that predates modern Ptolus. After a short rest on Andach’s island, they returned, searching for a way to that pool of glowing green slime that may or may not contain Sehan. They had […]
A very Goblin X-mas
What would be X-mas morning without a Goblin Song…. (Taken from the Paizo Blog) (Sung to the tune of Jingle Bells) Sneaking through your yard, Going through your stuff, Hope you didn’t like your dog; we got a little rough! Tied him to a stump. Lit the stump on fire. Maybe you’ll wake up in […]
My Perfect Geeky Christmas list!
The Soap image comes from Sean K. Reynolds’ wife business. She makes Geeky soaps, have a look! Here’s my list: I want someone working at WotC to comment on my blog I want my wife to download the second season of Heroes I want D&D 4e to be as kickass as what the previews make […]
Mini-Trope: No, I won't let you tell me about your character…
A few weeks ago, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek post about tropish DMs. Tonight I felt like tackling the equivalent for players. Once again this is going to be a satirical post and not an actual critic on play style. As usual, if this offends you…. ah heck, it’s not like I’m shopping for new players… […]
Chatty's Review: Silvervine, Introduction
Shortly after I re-posted Greywulf’s ‘DM/GM requirements Specification’ for a RPG (called the Dungeonmaster’s Creed), I got an Email from John Arcadian who I knew as a longtime Treasure Tables Commenter. Well after having read the Creed, John told me that he and a few collaborators, were working on a new RPG system called Silvervine […]
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