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Review: The Magus

March 24, 2022 by The Chatty DM

The Magus

I decided to dig into my PDF library of RPGs and look at “The Magus”. I had bought it last year during a Twitter-driven “Sell me an amazing Indie RPG” thread but I hadn’t gotten to reading it yet. All I remembered was that it looked gorgeous.

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: journal rpg, Journaling RPG, Solo Roleplaying, solo rpg

Hope in the Dark Heart of Evil is Not a Plan

January 24, 2022 by multiplexer

Hope is Not a Plan

Playing my typical day-to-day as a game didn’t feel like much fun. But, I thought, if I made Hope is Not a Plan a Dungeonomics story, maybe something darkly funny would emerge.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Dungeonomics, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Actual Play, Dungeons and Dragons, hope is not a plan, journal game, solo rpg

Chatty on Games #1: Dorf Romantik

August 10, 2021 by The Chatty DM

Dorf Romantik on Steam

“It’s like they put a high scoring mechanism on a Rainy-Day-Jigsaw-Puzzle session and realized it was (redacted) addictive.” -me on Twitter.

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Reviews, Video Games Tagged With: dorf romantik

The Infinity Current: Adventure 0

August 24, 2020 by The Main Event

Space

As a bonafide grownup for more than a decade after finishing law school, I’ve had the good fortune of a weekly gaming group that entire time. That is, until the Coronavirus.

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Featured, Pain of Publication, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: SCRPG, Sentinel Comics RPG

“The Eversink Post Office” – An Unofficial Supplement for Swords of the Serpentine

August 11, 2020 by multiplexer

Eversink Post Man

The insatiable need for commerce drives an insatiable need for the news. From Eversink back alley gossip circles to the rarified circle of the Triskadane, everyone needs to know what’s going on everywhere, all the time. Often, whoever lays hands on the news first, wins.

Filed Under: Dungeonomics, Featured, Game Hacks & Content, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: gumshoe, swords of the serpentine

13th Age: Indexing Truths

June 8, 2020 by The Chatty DM

The Diabolist

Whenever I have a short pause in in what I’m doing at my desk, I reach out for the little pile of index cards called “The Horizon Consipracy” and add new cards to it.

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 13th Age, campaign design, campaign planning, chatty's 13th age, index card prep

The Horizon Conspiracy

May 19, 2020 by The Chatty DM

The Diabolist

Then a question came to me: “Which icon is going to run interference in this scheme?” and asked for a final d12 roll and came up with “The Diabolist”

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Campaign Logs, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 13th Age, campaign design, chatty's 13th age, d20 Fantasy, d20 system, index card prep

They Might Be (Two-Headed) Giants Episode 3: Ikoria Premier Draft

May 13, 2020 by Dave

Umori the Collector

Dennis and Dave take another spin through an Ikoria draft on Magic Arena, both of whom have had their win percentages drop a bit in the format. Can they cycle through up against the best deck in the format to ooze their way to victory?

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, They Might Be (Two-Headed) Giants Tagged With: ikoria, ikoria: lair of behemoths, Magic Arena

They Might Be (Two-Headed) Giants Episode 2: Ikoria Premier Draft

April 27, 2020 by Dave

Gyruda Doom of Depths

Dennis and Dave are back with their quarantine looks to try out one of the best companion creatures in Limited. Can they EVEN make Gyruda work? Or are the ODDS against them?

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, They Might Be (Two-Headed) Giants Tagged With: ikoria, ikoria: lair of behemoths, Magic Arena, Magic: the Gathering

They Might Be (Two-Headed) Giants Episode 1: Ikoria Premier Draft

April 21, 2020 by Dave

Mythos of Snapdax

The new set Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths is out, and draftable against other people on Magic Arena. But they are all still but one head, whereas Dennis and Dave are two.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, They Might Be (Two-Headed) Giants Tagged With: ikoria, ikoria: lair of behemoths, Magic Arena, magic the gathering

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