See part 1 here Okay so after having played Lunch Money a couple of times, we were ready for something meatier. So we got out my copy of Settlers of Catan, the classic German game of, well, settling an Island. What I really like about that game is how fast paced it is. A turn […]
Board/Card Games Report #2, Part 1: Anime Zombie School Fight!
Now that’s a Chatty title. Last Friday, while I was enjoying the last few days of the holidays, my good friend and expert mastermind PM invited me and my buddy Franky for a full day of card games, Anime and general geekiness. As usual, these days are a blast. Spending from late mornings to late […]
Chatty’s Reviews: Wolfgang Baur on Playtesting
This post is part of a multi-blog review of Open Designs’ Kobold Guide to Game Design: Volume II, see the Hub page of the reviews here. A few days ago, my good friend Ben McFarland approached me and a few more bloggers to help him get the word out about Wolfgang Baur’s (you know, that […]
Review: The Hero of Ages
Sanderson’s finale manages to both showcases the favorites in the series, shine light on characters that had previous escaped the limelight, and end the series with a enormous finale that both surprises but stays completely within the rules that Sanderson has set for himself in his wonderful world.
Raiding the Library : Neal Stephenson’s worlds, Part 1
Man, I haven’t felt like that in months! I feel like spending the whole damn day at the keyboard and churn out thousands upon thousands of words just for the sake of it. That’s always a good sign. I’m one avid reader. I read novels by the buckets when I have the time to do […]
The Rule of Cool takes flak
Its interesting to note that several bloggers, especially of the old School variety (here and here) are taking a stance against the Rule of Cool as applied to Role Playing Games. Being one of the proponents of it, having written about it and made part of my success as a blogger around it, I feel […]
Chatty’s Goals for 2009
Happy new year everyone! I’m sitting at home on the evening of the 31st, getting ready to churn out another multi-hundred words post. Last year I did a list of objectives of the things I wanted from my blog, my personal life and my DMing. Like I said back then, I don’t believe in resolutions, […]
A year gone by…
Wow… that’s been quite a year. 2008 marked my first full year as a RPG blogger. It was also a year filled with amazing achievements and some humbling realizations. I intially wanted to review last year’s objectives but after agonizing over that post for 2 days I decided to drop it and take another tack. […]
DM Chronicles: Session 6: When Fun Trumps Story, Part 2
See part one here. After some discussions, the party set out for Thunderspire Mountain. I described what Fizban (eleven Wizard) knew about it since we established that he had visited it before in his researches. That’s when I gave the players a rundown on the setting’s background: Old Minotaur city now called the Labyrinth, denizens […]
Dice Contest Contest Winners!
Man its been quiet around here lately… Of course, I also stopped writing a new post every day for some time now and, well, we’re still smack dab into the holidays. So I kinda know why! All right, for those who remember, we had a contest last week about Dice! I’m happy to announce the […]
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