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Chatty’s World Tour 2008: Zurich, Basel and Penzberg

September 22, 2008 by The Chatty DM

A few weeks ago, I made a joke about feeling like a Rock Star right after Gen Con. It was a quaint joke and I ran with it here and on Twitter for some time.  Pretending to be a Rock Star is probably no worse than an evil Overlord. Well, here’s an occasion to to […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Chatty's World Tour

Kobold Love: Interlude 4: Kicking the Little Buggers Out!

September 22, 2008 by The Chatty DM

No I’m not quitting Kobold Love. However, seeing that there is recurring confusion about what the project is about, what I expect of people hacking the adventure, my publication plans and so forth, I think a fresh start is in order. Add to the fact that I’m finding that the project is robbing the blog […]

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

Chatty’s Question: Reactions to your RPG hobby?

September 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

1985: I’m in 6th grade and the phone rings at home. My mom picks up and another stay-at-home mom says that she heard her son talk about this new D&D game I’m playing.  She warns my mother that kids who play that game have committed suicide. My mother answers that she trusts my judgment and […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games

The Top 10 Songs that Should Never be in Rock Band

September 17, 2008 by Bartoneus

I’m sure it’s happened to many of you, listening to the radio either in the car or at work and hearing a particular song and thinking, “Damn, this song really should be in Rock Band!”  Apparently this happened so much that our friend DrScotto began to reply with simply, “EVERY song should be in Rock […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Music, Video Games Tagged With: guitar hero, Music, rockband, rockband 2, songs, top 10, Video Games, videogames

Kobold Love: Dungeon Diplomacy! Part 1

September 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Ready to dive into the adventure? As posted in the adventure plan, Scene 1 is about the PCs getting a prophecy and facing opposition against ultra conservative elements of the dungeon before venturing forth on the surface world. When the adventure will be published in its final form, there will be a few paragraph that […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: 4e, Project Kobold Love

Thanks to some Gnomes, I have custom sounds

September 16, 2008 by Dave

So remember that contest I told you all to enter, where the prizes were custom RPG sounds from World of Twilights Studio? Turns out I won the grand prize. Funny, huh? (I also won a prize in the one-sentence NPC contest, so I guess pimping other people’s contests works.) Well, I’ve been emailing back and […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games

Random Thoughts Table: Magic NPCs!

September 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

So yeah, as I was chugging along Kobold Love’s 1st scene, I hit a snag with the skill challenge and I needed help ‘debugging it’.  Graham ran to the rescue but when we were done, I had 1/2 a post and very little time left for sleep. So I thought I’d share a pair of […]

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

Kobold Love: Interlude 3, Changing gears

September 15, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Yeah, at the rate I’m going Kobold Love will be finished by the time Wizards of the Coast publishes 5th edition. More seriously, I have already committed to run play tests of KL at Draconis (Montreal’s gaming Con) in 3 weeks from now. I have to move a bit faster, without killing myself. So I […]

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

Inq. of the Week: 4th Edition Classes?

September 15, 2008 by Bartoneus

We’re finally back on a regular schedule, and temperatures are beginning to drop into that lovely cool – comfortable range (for about a week, that’s how long fall lasts in Maryland), it’s becoming clear that summer is drawing to a close.  Last week Dave asked how many of you partake in the monk-like practice of […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, classes, D&D, dnd, dnd4e, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, roleplaying, Roleplaying Games, roleplaying games

The Life of a Suburban Overlord

September 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Update: I went ahead and created a website for the webcomic.  You can find it here.  I will update it M-W-F until I grow tired of it or something… My friend Pierre bought himself a iPhone 3G, installed a Comic Book app on it and started posting possibly the first Twitter Webcomic.  (He’s going to […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Evil Overlord, TLSO, Tropes

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