Yes, I’m back from Gen Con. I’m still recuperating from it all, but it was as phenomenal as last year’s. That also means that the Gen Con hiatus is finished. Yay! Over the next few days, I’ll be writing posts about my Indianapolis adventures but this posts isn’t about that. Today I want to sing […]
Gen Con: ‘Puter troubles
Yesterday morning, I wrote a 775 word article on my 1st day of the Con. The post got eaten by WordPress (I can’t even recover autosaves it seems) and I only noticed last night. So I’ve decided that I will not post daily updates of my activities and will do a ‘Highlights and Lessons Learned’ […]
I Didn’t Know You Could Do That in 4e – Social Combat -or- Making Charisma the Overpowered Attribute for Once
So. You’ve seen movies or comic books where people can use their words as a tangible means to fight. You’ve been impressed by witty insults in swordfights, fierce battle cries, and people who use words to defend themselves with more than a snippy comeback.And you’ve thought to yourself, “Self, wouldn’t it be badass to be able to do that in a role-playing game?”.
Well, I believe it not only to be possible – but easily done in a variety of handily house-rulable forms. And not just the charismatic few who use as verbal buffs in combat to help allies or intimidate enemies – but that any characters can use a well-placed jibe to throw an opponent. Elan would be proud.
Gen Con Briefs: Wednesday
I don’t know how much I’ll be able to blog this year at Gen Con. I promised myself that I would not skip sleep to write so my posts will be Sporadic. Here’s a few highlight of Yesterday. I met Robin Laws at the O’Hare Chicago airport. We chatted about player types and motivation some […]
Adventurers Anonymous
Storyteller is the author of the RPG blog Beneath the Screen, and a content developer for Nevermet Press. He is proud to be back at ChattyDM’s blog for the one-year anniversary of his first guest post ever on the blogosphere, which he wrote for ChattyDM last year. Without further ado, onward with the guest post! […]
Contest: Yes! Please tell me about your PC…on Twitter
Regular readers will know that I have a thing for Twitter. If you’ve never heard of it, it allows you to post micro posts of maximum 140 characters in length. It also allows you to follow specific twitter accounts, like mine here, to see what people you care about are saying. Well a few weeks […]
Minimum Session Prep: Listen
Hi, I’m Brent P. Newhall, and I feel bad about this post. I originally promised Chatty a post aimed at newbie DMs, describing the absolute minimum prep needed for a D&D 4th Edition session. And while I’ll cover that, I realized there’s a bigger issue that needs to be addressed. The amount of preparation required […]
Dude, You Gotta Try Mutant Future!
WalkerP is the co-host and producer of The RPG Haven Podcast. Check out the latest episode on how to enjoy GenCon when you can’t actually go. I would like to thank ChattyDM for giving me this opportunity to share my love for Mutant Future with you. I think it’s great that he is having guest posters […]
Chatty’s Gen Con Plans
There’s an unexpected hole in my Guest post schedule, my Gen Con prep is finally done and I miss talking to you all, so I thought I’d share my convention plans. This is going to be my second attendance in as many years. Last time I came to the Con thinking I was a nobody […]
Silly DM, minor quests are for players
About a year ago, I read a post about sharing narrative control with players over on Gnome Stew that just blew my mind. After my initial reaction of “Are you kidding me? The DM is the narrator, end of story,” I realized that I already did some narrative sharing because I encouraged the players to […]
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