My son was the ultimate trooper. He spent more than 3 hours in surgery because the Eye-Nose-Throat surgeon had to repair the more extensive than expected damage that the thing growing in his inner ear had done. The Good news, the growth is gone. The Bad News, the whole middle ear has been mostly destroyed. […]
Precariously Balancing on the Edge of Game Design
Inspired by the discussion in one of my recent posts, I was surprised to hear that there are advocates AGAINST balance. The discussion was about RPGs, which have their own caveats as far as game design goes (which are crucial to the argument about why some feel it’s not important), but let’s start by talking […]
Maybe they can get Michael Bay to direct
Joystiq notes that the Castlevania movie is now back on track (and is Uwe Boll free.) But that’s not the only video game adaptation coming from the same studio. No, they also have the PAC MAN license! Yes, the hottest video game license from the early 80’s could be coming to a screen near you. […]
Wizards Lets Loose The Cool
Wired has posted an exclusive preview of the 4th Edition Character Sheet, which I have to say I’m happy to see. Since playing Keep on the Shadowfell, all of us were very concerned because the pre-generated character’s stats were hidden way down at the bottom of the back of the page. We assumed this was […]
Review: Penny Arcade Adventures (On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness)
After stopping by a few stores and calling a few more, it seemed clear to me that I wasn’t going to pick up a copy of Wii Fit. (And that means I won’t be buying it any time soon… sigh.) I was able to find solace by downloading the demo for Penny Arcade Adventures: On […]
Raimi’s First Rule
Terry Goodkind’s book series turned television show finds its leads.
Chatty’s Debates: Black Box vs Process-Response design
While pondering the darker reaches of a parent’s anxiety and trying to think of something else, I came upon a post by user Blackeagle on EnWorld’s board. It’s so good and it touches so many things I was thinking about 4e that I decided to repost it here. Instead of making a Chatty on 4e […]
Gen Con & Origins are a GO
I have received official word that my press passes for Gen Con and Origins (and one for my assistant at Origins) have been processed. So I shall be at both, barring some catastrophic event (either in me or my car.) I’ll try to do a bit more indepth coverage than I have in previous years, […]
False Spam Alerts
I just noticed that some comments get caught by my multi-leveled Spam filtering system (Mostly those with links)… Namely Felonius and Shadow145 lately. Just a quick note to tell you that should your comment be eaten up by my anti-spam system, just notify me on Gtalk (phil(dot)menard(at)gmail.com) or at chattydm@chattydm.net and I’ll bring it back. […]
Taking a few days off.
My 6 year old son has a somewhat major surgery scheduled for this Friday. Nothing life threatening, but they have to take something in the bone behind his ear that’s not supposed to be there and that’s slowly making it deaf as it grows. Any parents reading this will understand that as excited as I […]
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