In the game session 2 weeks ago, I concluded the party’s foray in the Demonwebs layer of the Abyss with the wretching of Ptolus (the campaign’s home base) out of the material world and plopping it up in another layer of the Abyss ruled by the Demon Prince Gratzz. Last Friday’s game wasn’t stellar nor […]
Sick! :(
With my game in Friday night (went well), my family sick with Gastro on Saturday and me coming with the same ailment today, my web presence has been severely limited. Some great comments were posted over the weekend, especially by Micheal Philips who’s finished a run through my 290-some posts (woot I can lay claim […]
Devastating, Heartbreaking, Terrible News
Friends, brace yourselves. I did not win the Loopin’ Louie World Championship this year either. In fact, I did not score a single win. (But did manage to rack up an impressive number of second place finishes.) Other than that, I’ve had some neat game design career stuff happen, though no big announcements to make […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: The Quest Improbable
It’s been too long I know. After having done more that 20 Trope related posts, it becomes kind of daunting to try to produce one that won’t be a re-hash of a previous one (or, you know, bad!). As I was losing time on the TV Tropes wiki looking for some more character specific trope […]
CommentLuv Plugin Activated
I’ve seen it on a few blogs and I must say I liked it a lot. I just installed the CommentLuv plugin that basically checks the URL of a commenter and tries to recover a link to the latest blog post of that commenter to add it at the end of a comment. I think […]
Game Review: Army of Two
I had apprehensions about getting this game for awhile, mostly because EA required anyone who wanted to play the game online to have an Xbox Gold Account to do so. After letting the hype from the game cool a little I found a demo on Xbox Live and played that to wet my whistle. I enjoyed […]
Adventure Prep: Hide in Shadows
I sat down yesterday to prep and I’m a bit out of ideas for custom scenes and hacking ideas for the adventure we’re playing (Expedition to the Demonweb Pits). I therefore decided to play the next session almost directly from the adventure and I set out to read it once again to familiarize myself with […]
Disney Announces New Projects
Yesterday in New York City Disney / Pixar Animation announced a handful of new projects that are in the works over the next 4 years, as well as screening 30 minutes of footage from the soon-to-be-released Pixar film Wall-E. Here’s a list of the projects that Disney announced: Up will follow WALL-E for Pixar, featuring […]
Chatty’s Mailbox: Of Terrain, Random Generation and Villains
A few weeks ago, I got a nice email from a reader, full of praise and constructive feedback (I love those!) and in the mail there were a few questions. I thought I’d respond to it in post form and maybe encourage people to send more questions at chattydm@chattydm.net. If it catches on, it may […]
House Cleaning
I’m enjoying my time off by mostly lounging around and taking it easy. I am also tinkering with the blog a bit to make it more useful for readers. That’s why I moved the Recent Comments to the top of the primary sidebar. I’m also finding that my blogroll is stretching beyond what I’d like […]
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