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Monte Cook Un-Retires and Joins Pathfinder RPG team.

May 12, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Well not so much out of retirement as he’s becoming a rules consultant for the Pathfinder RPG. What was it you said about Paizo NOT being a Google-emulate? 🙂 Monte Cook Joins the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game™ Team Co-creator of 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons® to act as Rules Consultant Paizo Publishing®, LLC today announced that […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: News, pathfinder

Review: “Piratz Tavern” in Silver Spring, MD

May 12, 2008 by Dave

Yesterday, for mother’s day, my mom had only one request for the traditional dinner: she wanted to go to the Piratz Tavern, a pirate-themed restaurant in downtown Silver Spring. Scratch that, she had two requests: she wanted her family to dress as ninjas and go there. The compromise was made that we would wear all-black, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews

Ding! The Stew is Ready. Hope You Like Gnomes.

May 12, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Have a look at the newest GM-focused blog. It’s Gnome Stew and it just launched. I really liked the Short Sessions: How to Cope by Walt Icantspellhislastnamejustnow as it plays directly in our gaming challenges. I wish a great big welcome to the GnomeGMs: Martin Ralya John Arcadian (yay!) Patrick Benson Walt Ciechanowski (I was […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

DM Chronicles 17: This is the end, Fiend

May 11, 2008 by The Chatty DM

It’s done, our D&D campaign is over and so is my playing D&D 3.5. Sigh*… The game went exceedingly well, better than I had hoped.The players were clever enough to navigate the minefield that was a hall full of Demon Lord avatars and ambassadors and live! It went so well that we actually managed to […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: 3.5e, Chatty's 2007-2008 campaign

More than meets the i

May 9, 2008 by Dave

Optimus Prime iPod Speaker. Need I say more?

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Television

Review: The Classic Dungeon

May 9, 2008 by originalsultan

The Big Picture: The Classic Dungeon is a board game with a simple premise: venture into a dungeon, kill the monsters, take their treasure, and escape. The game is based on a D&D style fantasy theme, and the players take the role of adventurers. But unlike in D&D, where the adventurers work together, in this […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games

Catch-Up Mechanics and that Damn Blue Shell

May 9, 2008 by Dave

I think we can all agree that it sucks to be losing. In most games, it’s inevitable that someone will be losing. However, good games will try to convince every player that he has a chance of winning up to the very end (while still rewarding those who did well throughout the course of the […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Critical Threats, Video Games

Of Judging and Other Stuff

May 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

No planned posts today as I’ll be spending the free time before tonight’s D&D game continuing the judging of the 10 word adventure contest. I got some news from Paizo and we may get more prizes as the request got sent to the marketing department (no pressure here guys!). Keep your fingers crossed. I added […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM

Adventure Prep: Grand Finale, World Saved? Roll Credits!

May 7, 2008 by The Chatty DM

There we are, this is going to be the last Adventure Prep post of the current campaign. A lot of things were said since that September 6th night where I pondered how to salvage a campaign that started on the wrong foot. Now I’m planning how to end it. Last game, the PCs met with […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM

D&D 4e: A Whole New World

May 7, 2008 by Bartoneus

Within the core books for the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons, a base world is being set up which is intended to give new players and especially new Dungeon Masters a much easier time getting into their first game. The setting is called “Points of Light” and is summed up on their site as: […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, Dungeons and Dragons, fantasy, world building

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