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Email issues: Deactivating Subscriptions

July 14, 2008 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Chatty’s Questions: What’s your Dice Fetish?

July 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

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

Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: Season 1 Boxed Set

July 12, 2008 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Warhammer 40k 5th Edition Released Today

July 11, 2008 by originalsultan

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. […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, News, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

The Perfect DM

July 11, 2008 by Dave

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 […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: D&D, DM, DMing, dungeon master

Forget OD&D and AD&D: Play DD&D

July 11, 2008 by Dave

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 […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games

Random Thoughts: Atomic Pod Treasure Trove Reveal Stolen Pixels

July 11, 2008 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

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

Gaming Now on the iPhone

July 10, 2008 by Bartoneus

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 […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Video Games Tagged With: app store, cellphone games, cellphone gaming, gaming, iphone, iphone games, Video Games, videogames

The 2008 Ennies: Chatty Walks Away, Disappointed.

July 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

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

Musings on Musings of the Chatty DM

July 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Hey there. I know no one believes me when I say I stop/slow down my posts.  I won’t say it anymore.  Suffice it to say that I’ve stopped writing posts that take me more than 45 minutes to write since the last 2 weeks (including the Open Letter) as I’m preparing my Gen Con presentation. […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM

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