This Friday is the day many of us have been waiting for since we saw the last 10 minutes of Batman Begins, back in 2005. At that point it had been exactly 10 years since any real effort was put towards bringing the caped crusader to the big screen, and even those results were questionable. […]
Email issues: Deactivating Subscriptions
I’ve e-mailing issues with the blog lately. There are a some comments that I’m not getting notification for since I activated the “Subscribe to this post” plugin. Have others been having issues with emails from the blog? I might not re-instate the plugin. I encourage you to follow comment on the following feed: http://chattydm.net/comments/feed/ Sorry […]
Chatty’s Questions: What’s your Dice Fetish?
I’m almost done with my Gen Con Seminar prep, I should be done by Tuesday and come back with meatier fare soon after. Here’s another content light post! I started reading a pretty good webcomic called Weregeek (thanks Sandrinnad!). In one strip, the author addresses the Dice Fetish trope were one player freaks out when […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: Season 1 Boxed Set
One of the lessons I learned from the Ennies Nominations is that my Site could gain from better navigation tools. This post is a step in this direction as I’ll put a link to it in my sidebar. Director’s Intro: I discovered the TVTropes wiki on the ‘Okay…Your Turn‘ gaming forum early in September 2007 […]
Warhammer 40k 5th Edition Released Today
The 5th edition of Warhammer 40k was officially released today, according to the Games Workshop website. I wrote a preview of 5th edition a while back, for those who are interested in my thoughts on the new system. As I haven’t bought the new rules yet, I will reserve judgement on it until a later date. […]
The Perfect DM
According to players, the Perfect DM should be able to… Create an evocative world with every tiny detail thought out for whatever the players decide to investigate or whichever NPC they decide to converse with. Be able to improvise an entire adventure based on the whim of the players, in case they decide they don’t […]
Forget OD&D and AD&D: Play DD&D
For Drinking Dungeons & Dragons. As the planning for Gen Con goes ahead (mostly involving me panicking about not having signed up for anything), I continue my quest to trick some of the RPG bloggers into entertaining me at the convention by running games for my benefit. Well, I think I’ve finally tricked the Chatty […]
Random Thoughts: Atomic Pod Treasure Trove Reveal Stolen Pixels
Before I forget! Only 2 more days to send an entry in the One Sentence NPC contest! Soooo, Gen Con prep is slowly nearing completion, it’s taking longer than expected but I believe that the GM-Fu Workshop book we’re doing is going to be awesome. So awesome in fact that we plan on making it […]
Gaming Now on the iPhone
It’s a good thing I was randomly floating around a few sites on the internet today, otherwise I might have easily missed the launch of Apple’s oh so appropriately named (haha!) App Store for the iPhone which allows you to download games for the glorious piece of sexy technology. I bought one back in september […]
The 2008 Ennies: Chatty Walks Away, Disappointed.
Well Yax made it and I didn’t. See here for nominations. Congrats Yax, you created and developed quite an accessible, and interesting quality RPG site! I’m disappointed, for sure, but not bitter. I gave it the good old college try and will likely enter again next year. By submitting the site so early in it’s […]
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