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March 12, 2009 by The Chatty DM

My son Nico will be undergoing ear surgery tomorrow. As things stand, I’ll likely be at the hospital for most, if not all of tomorrow (and the following night). I have a Players Handbook 2 preview planned for tomorrow but there’s good chances I won’t be there to respond to comments until late Friday night […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM

Interview: Monte Cook about Dungeonaday.com

March 11, 2009 by Dave

Monte Cook just announced his ambitious new project: Dungeonaday.com. Of course, as primarily a 4e DM and player, my first question was “would I be able to use it in my campaign?” So I went to the source, and asked Mr. Cook himself that very question, along with a few others.

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 3e, 4e, dungeonaday, monte cook, OGL

Open Game Table: Anthology

March 11, 2009 by Bartoneus

Our friend Jonathan over at The Core Mechanic has announced the release date for his first Open Game Table project, The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs. This anthology is a great collection of RPG blog posts, chosen by members of the community, that represent some of the best in roleplaying game information on the internet.

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: anthology, open game table, roleplaying, Roleplaying Games

Chatty’s Megadungeon: Foundations

March 10, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Aptly enough, Monte launched his new Megadungeon project, have a look here. Like lightning, inspiration struck me over the weekend.  Last Friday’s musings on Megadungeons has left my brain splattered all over the place with a ton of ideas for adapting the old concept to my current way of playing the game. I’ve got so […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Megadungeon, Tropes, world building

DM Chronicles: Session 11, Foray into the Well of Demons, part 2

March 10, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. With all that shared narrative and roleplaying out of the way (just kidding…mostly), the players were ready to start exploring the Well of Demons. I must say that I really like this part of the adventure.  It was the first one that reads like a true dungeon crawl. It’s made up […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Inq. of the Week: Who Watched the Watchmen?

March 9, 2009 by Dave

My sense when it was being advertised, and especially after seeing it, is that the movie is something of a tough sell. It’s long, it’s R rated, and it’s fairly high concept as far as movies with this kind of advertising budget go. Early box office receipts are panning that out, and I’m not confident in its word of mouth to those who aren’t fans of the original.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Comics, Editorial, Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: watchmen

DM Chronicles: Session 11, Foray into the Well of Demons, part 1

March 9, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Previously in Chatty’s game: Our heroes, with a treacherous doppelganger in their ranks, faced the Duergar leader in his abode.  When failure seemed imminent, the wounded grey dwarf leader sought help from his minions stationed in a nearby room and like a horde they poured in and surrounded our wounded, tired heroes. Against all odds, […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Chatty's 2008-2009 campaign

Watchmen…

March 8, 2009 by spankleberry

…is to become Saturday morning cartoon… !? Watchmen is a serious, serious bit of graphic novel, even with meta-powered individuals populating its story. Written by psychedelically charged soul-delver Alan Moore, it is a seminal piece of literature, and I might almost be excited to see them release a movie of it this week. But I […]

Filed Under: Comics, Humor, Movies, Television, YouTube Tuesday Tagged With: adaptation, comic, movie, watchmen

Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-03-07

March 7, 2009 by Gato the News Robot

Fiery Dragon’s 4e Battlebox released A Design History of Pac-Man This month’s RPG blog carnival is WAR! Answer the question, “what is it good for?”

Filed Under: Critical Bits Tagged With: twitter

Catch that Wagon: Return to the Mega-Dungeon

March 6, 2009 by The Chatty DM

I’ve been trying to write that post all day long and I keep getting distracted… I can feel it coming.. one of my dreaded/beloved consciousness-devouring, depression-killing creative surges… I have dungeons on my mind.  More precisely, I think about Mega-Dungeons, a lot.  Those huge, multi-leveled sprawling complex that were at the core of the first […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Megadungeon, new school, old school

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