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Kobold Love Update: Scene 2 is up

November 6, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I posted a new Kobold Love article today (my D&D 4e Reverse Dungeon Adventure I’m working on) . In it, I tackle Scene 2, where the Half-Kobold PCs, travelling to the City to seek out and kill the quest giver,  meet a group of inexperienced adventurers traveling in the reverse direction to their dungeon home. […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

How a Wiki can Excite Players

November 6, 2008 by Bartoneus

You can find all kinds of advice on how to use a wiki to help out your roleplaying campaign, but there is one aspect I discovered during the last game I played in which I don’t think I’ve seen mentioned by anyone.  Sure wiki can be great for keeping track of loot, NPC’s, and plot […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: D&D, Dungeons & Dragons, game, obsidian portal, roleplaying, Roleplaying Games, wiki

Chatty’s Question: Your duality as a DM/GM

November 5, 2008 by The Chatty DM

As discussed last week, GMs are often really hard on themselves. Yet we can’t all be doing a bad job now can’t we? So I thought to myself, how about we talk some more about that. I want to know that one thing you know you are good at as a GM.  Tell us what […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

On Fighting the Blues… and Winning!

November 5, 2008 by The Chatty DM

No, honest to god, this is NOT yet another post about how miserable I feel!  Quite the contrary. I occasionally talk about my mental health here for 2 reasons.  One, it is therapeutic to put it out there for others to see… it forces me to deal with it actively.  Two, I know many other […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM

Review: The Witcher – Enhanced Edition

November 4, 2008 by Bartoneus

I’d heard about The Witcher over the last couple of years, but never really paid much attention to it until I got my hands on a review copy of the Enhanced Edition.  What happened is that the polish company game company CD Projekt spent a lot of money developing the game, and when it was […]

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Video Games Tagged With: pc, witcher, xbox 360

YouTube Tuesday: Vote for Lando Edition

November 4, 2008 by Dave

See more funny videos at Funny or Die Currently only available at Funny or Die, some campaign ads you need to see before voting. And remember, if the Emperor doesn’t win, he might have to get another job.

Filed Under: Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, YouTube Tuesday

Are you ready to ROCK?

November 4, 2008 by Dave

Thoughts on the official 4e D&D Bard, comparisons to the other 4e Bards recently released, and a look back on old 4e speculation.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, bard, classes

Supers Carnival Roundup!

November 4, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Hello, I’m Chatty DM, your host for last month’s RPG Blog Carnival.  It was quite a month for Super Heroic RPG blog goodness let me tell you. So here’s my digest! Things started out with my good friend Greywulf where he picked some Supers Tropes (Alternate Origins, Costumes, Group names, Base of Operations, etc) and […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Inq. of the Week: Presidential Election

November 3, 2008 by Dave

Last week, we wanted to find out which of the wonderful pile of games that have just come out you’re planning on buying. The big winner, and I have to agree that it’s a must-buy, is Fallout 3 with 65% of the voters. Second place is Fable 2, recently reviewed here. In third, since our […]

Filed Under: Comics, Inquisition of the Week, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

Chatty’s Finds: Kids, Castle and Caves

November 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

During my daily luminotherapy sessions, I travel the net for some blog goodies. Through Jeff’s Gameblog and through James’s Lamentation of the Flame Princess, I found a link to an outfit called Brave Halfling Production that currently supports some of the Retro-Clone games out there (i.e. New RPGs inspired by the rulesets of the Original […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: gaming with children, Gaming with Kids

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