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Impressions: Baltimore Comic-Con 2008

September 30, 2008 by Bartoneus

I’ve been to a fair number of conventions, but this past Sunday was my first time going to a strictly comic convention and I have to say the experience was pretty extraordinary.  Several of the other conventions I’ve been to have also been in the Baltimore Convention Center, and as we walked in my first […]

Filed Under: Comics, Editorial, Featured Tagged With: baltimore, baltimore comic con, BCC, comic con, Comics, darwyn cooke, mike mignola, Movies, scott kurtz, webcomics

Critical Hits Podcast #12: Interview with Scott Kurtz of PvP

September 30, 2008 by Dave

At Baltimore Comic-Con 2008, we caught up with Scott Kurtz of PvP fame. We talk about the D&D Podcasts, ask him about his D&D character, and get a little advice about starting your own gaming webcomic. Critical Hits Podcast #12: Interview with Scott Kurtz of PvP (5 minutes long, 3 MB) Two minor scoops within: […]

Filed Under: Comics, Critical Hits Podcast, Interviews, Roleplaying Games

New Kobold Love post

September 30, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I posted the last half of Scene one of the Kobold Love project adventure over www.chattystudios.com. In it you’ll see a fully stated Gnoll Ranger, complete with awesome Stat Bloc look, thanks to Asmor‘s 4e.css packaged with his Monster Maker application. You’ll also see the attempt by Graham and I to create a D&D 4e […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Project Kobold Love

Heroes Season 3 Premiere: Both Awesome and Horrible

September 29, 2008 by Dave

The following rant/review contains spoilers. It assumes you have watched the two part season premiere. I finally got a chance over the weekend to watch the TiVoed season 3 premeire of Heroes. In Season 1, I had found myself watching the first few episodes, giving it a pass for most of the season, then picking […]

Filed Under: Comics, Editorial, Reviews, Television Tagged With: heroes, season 3, Television, TV, tv show, villains

Inq. of the Week: Who Reads Comics?

September 29, 2008 by Bartoneus

We should have provided an over/under on last week’s poll, I’d be curious to see who would have guessed that 52% of our voting readers are married gamers.  Coming in at second is 28% of you who are gamers and single, 16% are gamers and in relationships, with only 5 votes (3%) in the gamer […]

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Inquisition of the Week Tagged With: baltimore, comic con, Comics, Inquisition of the Week, newspaper funnies, webcomics

Keeping up with the Hyperactive & Chatty DM.

September 29, 2008 by The Chatty DM

If you want to keep up with my numerous projects, without having to jump all over my no less numerous websites, I invite you to subscribe to my most excellent (cough) content on your windows bookmarks or your favorite RSS reader (I like Google Reader myself). Please follow these awesome links: Chatty Studios: My new […]

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

Chatty’s Question: Losing it, RPG style!

September 29, 2008 by The Chatty DM

There’s been a ‘nostalgic’ revival of anti-D&D material on several blogs lately (Sorry if I don’t link, I don’t have the time right now). I saw the movie Mazes and Monsters about 20 years ago and like all 15 year old teenager geeks, I scoffed at the plot and snickered at all the ways the […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Kobold Love’s Website Updated

September 27, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I just updated all the Kobold Love posts over Chatty Studios’ website to better together.  I also created a Project main page where you can navigate to all other related posts. You can find the project’s main page here and check on those who manifested interest in tackling the community part of of this project. […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

I am a Writer…

September 26, 2008 by The Chatty DM

On the way back from Gen Con, my mind shifted into a seldom before attained creative overdrive (I’m going through another one today it seems). During my flights back I created Chatty Studios, Kobold Love and I wrote a post about being a writer in the RPG industry. I submitted that text to Bob Younce, […]

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Guest Post, Writing

Bedtime Campaign: Nico outsmarts Smaug the Dragon!

September 25, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This post is part of a series where I explore freeform roleplaying as a bedtime story for my 6 year old son, Nico. Chatty: So what do you want me to read tonight? Nico: Can we play the story game again?  It’s been a long time and I’m sure your friends on the computer miss […]

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

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