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Kobold Love: Intro, Background and Summary, Part 1

September 6, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m the type of person who needs to understand a process before tackling it head on. That’s why this post is more about context and theory than actually writing Kobold Love’s first part. Bear with me, it will be worth it. First Impressions are capital When a DM opens up a D&D adventure booklet, the […]

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

Drunken D&D: Funny Quotes

September 4, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m too exhausted to write a real post. But I have something funny to share it with you. At Gen Con, I played 2 sessions of Drunken D&D (designed by Dave the Game, DMed by yours truly) with my fellow bloggers friends. I wrote a 5 scene adventure for it and Graham created the PCs. […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Drunken D&D, Humour

4th Edition: Playtest a Barbarian

September 4, 2008 by Bartoneus

Second Edit: See here for the Barbarian release, no fooling! Edit: It appears Wizards has removed this snippet from the Table of Contents, sorry everyone! The table of contents for Dragon #367 is up, and it looks like we’ll be getting an early look at the Barbarian class from the PHB 2 that won’t be […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, barbarian, D&D, dnd, dnd 4e, dragon magazine, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons

DM Chronicles: Session 1, That’s how you start a Campaign! Part 2

September 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. The Banquet We started with all PCs participating in a seemingly endless Banquet hosted by the local Merchant Baron, Brandobaris the Fat. Late into the scene’s night, after some interesting Roleplaying, Brandobaris opened a casket of Drow Wine, reputed to turn into a deadly poison 5 minutes after being exposed to […]

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

Epic Laundry Basket: Arrogance vs Cockiness

September 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

One of the things that I associate with success is giving the appearance of fearlessness, of being Gung Ho about one’s abilities. It does not have to resonate true inside but it sure needs to be outside if you want to be taken seriously. When fame does arrive, people start having reasons to hate you.  […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

A Closer Look at 4th Edition Multi-Classing

September 3, 2008 by Bartoneus

I’ve heard over and over again, from various people, that they feel multi-classing in 4th Edition just isn’t worth it.  I even got to the point of asking several of the Wizards staffers if their current games (each staffer seems to be playing in several games of 4e) had any higher level multi-classed characters that […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, dnd 4e, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, multi-classing, multiclass

YouTube of the Week: Don’t Feed the Batman after Midnight Edition

September 2, 2008 by Dave

A fan redone version of a segment from Gremlins. Be sure to check out the making of video too.

Filed Under: Movies, YouTube Tuesday Tagged With: batman, gremlins, indiana jones

Kobold Love: Interlude 2, Reflections and the Half-Kobold Template revealed

September 2, 2008 by The Chatty DM

The Cliff is higher than I thought. Over the weekend the immensity of what I have tackled with Kobold Love crashed on me. As comments, mostly positive, and some (well deserved) reservations started pouring in, what initially felt to me like a public adventure prep exercise took a new dimension. This is the real deal […]

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

Review: “Treasure of Talon Pass”

September 2, 2008 by Dave

Synopsis: “Treasure of Talon Pass” is a an adventure for 4e D&D designed to take 2nd level characters to 3rd level. It is a fairly typical dungeon crawl that works well enough but also does not take advantage of environments and non-combat elements enough to make it more interesting than a string of combats. Production: […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, 4E d&d, fourth edition, free rpg day, treasure of talon pass

DM Chronicles: Session 1, That’s how you start a Campaign! Part 1

September 1, 2008 by The Chatty DM

DM Chronicles, along my Adventure Prep posts are my longest running series on the Blog.  The Chronicles are a DM’s report of my D&D game that I run twice a month from September to June every year.  This year marks our 9th straight year playing with the same core group and my 1st D&D 4e […]

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

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