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The Rule of Cool takes flak

January 1, 2009 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Tropes

Chatty’s Goals for 2009

January 1, 2009 by The Chatty DM

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, […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

A year gone by…

December 31, 2008 by The Chatty DM

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. […]

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Last Day for December ’08 Blog Carnival

December 31, 2008 by Dave

Today is the last day for the latest RPG Blog Carnival about “Transitions and Transformations” before UncleBear takes over . So if you want to get an entry into this month’s carnival, you want to do it today and leave a comment on the post. And even if you have written an entry for the carnival, […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: blog carnival, transformations, transitions

YouTube Tuesday: Epic Speech Overload Edition

December 30, 2008 by Dave

If you’re not inspired by some part of this, there’s just no getting through to you. Extra points given for using one of my all-time favorite geek epic speeches that is underquoted: Picard’s “The line must be drawn here!” speech from First Contact. 

Filed Under: Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Web Meme, YouTube Tuesday

DM Chronicles: Session 6: When Fun Trumps Story, Part 2

December 30, 2008 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

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

Dice Contest Contest Winners!

December 29, 2008 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Inq. of the Week: Resolution?

December 29, 2008 by Bartoneus

This week New Years is on Thursday, and no doubt many people will be taking part in the renewing tradition of setting New Years Resolutions. I’ve set very few of them in my life, and of those I don’t think I’ve ever fulfilled one but at least I set my goals high, right? Okay, maybe not. Whether you set them or not, and if you live up to them or not, the fact that you’re reading this means there is one important resolution that you DO have set.

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week

DM Chronicles: Session 6, When Fun Trumps Story, Part 1

December 29, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Heya all, I more or less expected to stop playing from late November until mid January. However, by a strange coincidence, we all (i.e. the 6 players and myself) managed to be free on December 19th! Joy! Warming up with  the Band! Some of the group made it to Math’s early enough so we could […]

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

Playing Online Part 3: Wrapping-Up

December 26, 2008 by Wyatt Salazar

Chatty DM: Here’s Part 3 of Wyatt’s wordilicious series on playing RPG through text interfaces online.  I wish to thank him warmly for stepping in when I needed the break! Hey there, this is Wyatt Salazar, your DJ for the night, and as we have done before (and before) we will talk online gaming! Now […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

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