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Chatty Plays, Part 2: Burning Wheel, Compromising Canucks

November 17, 2010 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty starts relating a play-by-play account of the Burning Wheel scenario “The Sword” as played by his long-standing gaming group.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Adventure Prep, Burning Wheel, Monster Burner, The Sword

Fable 3 Half-Review Part 2 – Freedom: The Final Betrayal

November 16, 2010 by Vanir

In the name of all that is good and holy in this world, you MUST to read the last half of my review of Fable 3. To protect yourself. To protect your family. For AMERICA. (If you do not live in America, I am sorry. Your reading this review will still be counted as being for America.)

Filed Under: Columns, Dire Flailings, Humor, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Video Games Tagged With: disliked, Fable, fable 3, hate, horrible, lionhead, lionhead studios, molyneux, poorly-thought-out, puke, rage, sucks, unhappy

Do As I Say, Not As I Did

November 15, 2010 by Shawn Merwin

They say that there is no better teacher than failure. Let me show you how good a teacher I am.

Filed Under: Editorial, Know Your Roll, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, encounter design, lfr, rpga

Chatty Plays, Part 1: Burning Wheel, Getting into the Game

November 15, 2010 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty explains what brought him to finally try Burning Wheel with his players and how he prepared for running the game’s introductory adventure, a short Dungeon Crawl scenario called ‘The Sword”

Filed Under: Actual Play, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Adventure Prep, Burning Wheel, Monster Burner, The Sword

The Littlest Con

November 11, 2010 by Chris Sims

Nanocon’s magic is in its intimacy. It presents a great opportunity to meet players and play games. As a guest, I also had the chance to mingle with all the other guests, as well as the faculty and organizers. That type of interaction with others who love games is hard to overvalue. Perhaps needless to say, I’m glad I went.

Filed Under: Analysis Paralysis, Columns, Editorial, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: convention, game design, gamma world, nanocon

Fable 3 Half-Review: It Is A Giant Waste Of Time

November 9, 2010 by Vanir

Dear Fable 3: I hate you. Actually, I love most of you. But you have to treat me right, or I won’t be here forever. Actually, I will, but I will be here hating you. Forever.

Filed Under: Dire Flailings, Humor, Reviews, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Video Games Tagged With: expressions, Fable, fable 3, intense hatred, lionhead studios, peter molyneux

Chatty Plays: “Last Night on Earth”

November 9, 2010 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty shambles with the recently dead and delivers a putrid review of the best Zombies board game around… but be ready to lose to those zombies, often!

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Musings of the Chatty DM, Reviews Tagged With: Last Night on Earth, Tropes, Zombie Apocalypse, zombies

Orgrimmar Politics As Usual

November 2, 2010 by Vanir

It’s the end of a brutal election season, and the race for key positions in the Horde have never been closer. No one could have expected Thrall to step down from his position as Warchief, but it was no surprise to anyone just how heated the battle to ensue would become. Hit the jump for expanded election coverage!

Filed Under: Dire Flailings, Featured, Humor, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Video Games Tagged With: biden, bush, cheney, clinton, faith based initiatives, garrosh hellscream, gore, grom hellscream, healthcare, high overlord saurfang, Humor, kerry, mary o'donnell, masturbation, mccain, no child left behind, obama, saurfang the elder, saurfang the younger, shamans, shamans rule, tax cuts, thrall, universal healthcare, varok saurfang, warcraft, world of warcraft, WoW

Ghoulish Mailbag: Handling PC Death

October 31, 2010 by The Chatty DM

Fighting Ghouls and Goblins, Chatty picks a letter from his mailbox and tackles the classic “but what’s a GM to do when a PC dies?”

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Character Death, D&D, d&d 4e, halloween

When the Bad Guys Win: Chatty’s Gamma World One Shot

October 29, 2010 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty breaks out his brand new Gamma World game and tries a different kind of post-apocalyptic game with his buddies. It’s all fun and games until someone gets shredded by a Porcupine Bush on Speeds.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: gamma world, one-shot, Post-Apocalypse

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