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Inq. of the Week: Dungeon Crawls?

August 4, 2008 by Bartoneus

I’d begun to notice a distinct lack of D&D posts here lately, which was partially orchestrated and partially just because a lot of other news and thoughts came up here, so last week I ventured to ask who would win in a super big monster brawl.  It looks like we have a tie!!! The one […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, Board, Card, and Miniature Games, D&D, dungeon crawl, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, roleplaying, Roleplaying Games, tabletop RPG

Mini Crunch: Fun with D&D 4e Action Points

August 4, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I get ideas sometimes. Ideas that, if I don’t use them, will leave me for another, younger, more prolific writer.  Being a slave to nubile, half-dressed ideas, I take them and put them on electronic paper. One such idea struck me while reading UncleBear’s latest post about using Hero Points in Hollow Earth Expedition (through […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, mini-post

Announcing: The RPG Bloggers Network

August 3, 2008 by Dave

I’ve been working hard the past week or so on a brand new project, but one that has been formulating for a long, long time. It’s the RPG Bloggers Network, located at rpgbloggers.com! A bunch of us (especially those located in the Featured Site section) wanted a way to network together closer, so that members […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Roleplaying Games

RPG Bloggers Unite!

August 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Last year, Dave the Game and Bartoneus of Critical-Hits approached me with an idea to create a sort of hub where the RSS feeds of various RPG bloggers could be found on one site. The idea was not to create competition but rather create a combined stop for RPG blog readers where they could glance […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

The World Ends With You

August 3, 2008 by spankleberry

OR: Final Fantasy DJ The World Ends With You proves yet another great game from monolithical Square Enix, who bring us the Final Fantasy games, quintessential playing for role-playing games (RPG). TWE brings a hip-hop attitude to a group of dead kids who need to pass a series of trials in some alternate universe in […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Video Games Tagged With: ds, final fantasy, nintendo, Reviews, Video Games

Chatty’s Vacations

August 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Depending on how long you have been a reader here, you know that the biggest inside joke here is that whenever I say I’ll stop posting for some time (for whatever reason), it’s usually the best sign that I’m on the verge of starting a posting storm.  No wonder I wrote 400 posts in one year. […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: gen con 2008

Vote for the Ennies

August 1, 2008 by The Chatty DM

(Image Source: The Ennies Website) The Ennies is the Roleplaying equivalent of the Oscars. All fans can vote for their favorites.  I just voted and I encourage you to do so.  You have until August 6th. You can vote here. Yes I submitted this site and I didn’t get nominated, my friend Yax did… (for […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

So you wanna write a RPG blog? Part 5: Then What?

July 31, 2008 by The Chatty DM

In the last 2 weeks, I wrote a primer about starting a new RPG blog. While I knew it wasn’t going to be all that original, I thought that would-be RPG bloggers could benefit from it.  It turns out they did as I’m already seeing a few new RPG blogs cropping up (Here’s one and […]

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: RPG blog primer

3rd Party D&D GSL/OGL Publishers

July 31, 2008 by Dave

Since there have been two major updates in the past day, here’s the list of companies that I know of (and let me know if there’s any I’ve missed, I’ll try to add them) that have or specifically have not signed the GSL. I’ve also tried to source them in some way. Necromancer Games: Staying […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games

Rage, Song, and Shapeshift are all coming back

July 31, 2008 by Dave

ENWorld is reporting, via the WotC 2009 catalog sent to retailers, that you’ll see the return of some familiar faces in PHB2: the Players Handbook 2 will include Druid, Barbarian, Sorcerer, Bard, and Swordmage classes (eight in all). New races will include the gnome, the half-orc, and the goliath. Cynics can now engage their “only […]

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