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Inq. of the Week: Smashing Characters

March 10, 2008 by Dave

Last week, asking about your systems operation, 77% of you responded that you use Windows… somewhere. The Mighty Mac came in second with 29%, and Loquacious Linux running in third with 20%. There was one lone “Other” vote, which I’m hoping was something exciting like a robot running his own Asimov-based operating system who is […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Video Games

Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: This is the End, Friend

March 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

No no, I’m not ending this series, no worries. As mentioned here, I’m exploring “Endings” as applied to RPG campaigns… Many long-lasting Role playing campaigns based on power-gaining PCs hinge around a progressively increasing threat that almost invariably escalate to the World Destroying level. The threat usually takes the form of an impeding Cataclysm that […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games, Tropes Tagged With: Theme week:Endings, Tropes

Theme Week: Endings

March 8, 2008 by The Chatty DM

As I was planning my blogging week I realized that I had a running theme going on. So much so that I decided to make it official! Since I’m planning the end of my D&D 3.5 campaign in the next 3 months, I decided to spend the week dealing with endings of all kinds: Today’s […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Theme week:Endings, Tropes

D&D XP Interview: Andy Collins and Scott Rouse (Part 2)

March 8, 2008 by Dave

(be sure to check out part 1 first!) Critical Hits: How did the 4e preview books do? (Worlds and Monsters, Races and Classes) Scott Rouse: They’re a little tough since I don’t think we marketed them right. They’re a great look inside the heads of the designers and developers. We wanted to make it a […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Roleplaying Games

Pathfinder #6 preview and conclusion: The Lost City of Adventure’s End

March 8, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I just got the notification that issue #7 was shipped this week. That made me realize that I had to write a short blurb on the final issue of Paizo’s Rise of Runelords Adventure Path. Issue #6: Spires of Xin-Shalast brings the stories of ancient, evil Sin-magic and the old empires based on them to […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Uncategorized Tagged With: pathfinder

Chatty’s Out of the Box #004: Memories…

March 7, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Here’s my Webcomic tribute to a great man. As usual, click on the thumbnail (and possibly once again on the picture) to get the sharpest image. It’s funny how many memories one can keep of this game. All stories you see in the comic truly happened and featured, my friends Nicolas (panel 1, gone to […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Uncategorized Tagged With: Chatty's Out of the Box

GaryCon

March 6, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Borrowed from The Evil DM’s blog (and adapted): World-Wide GaryCon this weekend! By now everyone I’m sure has heard of the passing of Gary Gygax. One of the best suggestions so far for a fitting tribute is GaryCon. Basically GaryCon is about gaming. This weekend take some time and play a game. Run a game […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Gaming with Kids

Watchmen Characters Revealed

March 6, 2008 by Bartoneus

Today is exactly one year until the movie Watchmen is released, and now they’ve released a group of images of what many of the main characters look like.  Head over to the Watchmen site to see all of the glorious full-size shots. I have to say that I think these are perfect, especially the Comedian […]

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Movies, News Tagged With: Comics, movie, watchmen

YABM (Yet another Blog Milestone)

March 6, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This morning I hit 200 RSS subscribers for the 1st time! Yay! I am getting used to the fact that this Blog thing is for real, I’m still amazed that people follow my ramblings. As always, I thank you all! I’m keeping with my decision of doing few (or light) posts this week. I’ll be […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Community

D&D XP Interview: Sara Girard & Rob Heinsoo

March 5, 2008 by Bartoneus

We sat down first to talk with the Sara Girard the Associate Brand Manager at Wizards, who works a lot on the marketing for 4th Edition. We started by bringing up our experience with our first chance at playing 4th Edition in the Dungeon Delve, and Sara mentioned that she is currently playing a Dragonborn […]

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, d&d experience, Interviews, rob heinsoo, sara girard

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