Two weeks ago, we asked what your favorite version of D&D is. Among those who have come to our site and voted, 44% chose the brand-spanking new 4th edition. Following behind is 3.5 (and associated branches) at 30%. 2e was third at 9%, with 3.0 being last (behind the non-D&D players.) Very interesting stuff- while […]
New Contest: The One Sentence NPC!
We’ve had a few contests, here at Musings of the Chatty DM. For instance, we recently had the very successful 10 word Adventure and very useful Characterization ones. Now it’s time for something bigger! I have teamed up with RPG e-Zine mogul Johnn Four (of roleplayingtips.comfame) to bring you the biggest independent RPG-themed contest to […]
Chatty Slides back in WoW, Follows Shamus Young
So after 4 years, Shamus Young gave in to MMO. First it was Guild Wars. It lasted a few days. Now he’s joining World of Warcrack… We all know this will not last just one week. He joined the Kirin Tor RP server and joined the Pig & Whistle Society (A Rpg.net guild run by […]
Pain of Campaigning V: Suitable Villains
So, let’s see, you have pre-planned your campaign, started it out with a bang, managed to balance a bunch of squabbling players interests in the game and even dared to put politics into it. Sounds like a great game, huh? Job’s over? Wrong. A recurring villain is one of the simplest ways to increase the […]
Venture Brothers: Watch It
I’m very happy to say that the third season of the cartoon the Venture Brothers started three weeks ago on Cartoon Network. You don’t know what Venture Brothers is, you say? Well that’s exactly why I’m posting this, to let everyone who just happens to come here but still doesn’t know about this excellent show […]
Free RPG Day is Tomorrow
Continuing our usual public service for “Free _____ Days”, Free RPG Day is tomorrow. See if there’s any participating store near you, mentally rank the offerings, and head out on Saturday in search of free RPG goodness. You may recall that I was fairly unhappy last year because of the restrictions placed on it by […]
Afterschool Tropes Special: What’s That Fridge Doing at the Table?
I’ve decided to rename my trope series because the posts feel like I’m writing a new season. I’m also experimenting with slightly different formats of trope posts. It remains to be seen if I’ll be jumping the shark or making the series grow a beard. Have you ever had the experience, at school, in your […]
Random Thought Table: Of Subs, Quotes and Anecdotes
I took a few days off and I have the kids with me. So online time is limited (I’ll be back later this afternoon when they all go to the Optometrist with my lovely wife). I know that Thursdays is the day where the call of the net is strongest, so let me point you […]
4e D&D SRD is up
The long-awaited SRD is up, and it doesn’t contain a lot of surprises, but it’s somewhat disappointing (especially by those of us spoiled by the openness of the 3e SRD.) Probably the only improvement for 3rd party product makers and fans is that they can finally put something with the D&D logo on the packaging, […]
The Game System Licence and SRD are out
Via The Gamerdome Here’s the GSL and the SRD As promised, the SRD is only a 65 page long list of references defined in the Core book whose names you can use freely (baring that you abide to the GSL) but that you can’t redefine or print the text of. So you can put Kobold […]
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