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Real Ultimate Showdown Round 4

October 4, 2007 by Dave

[This round is over, go vote in the FINAL ROUND]  The final four combatants… or is that the fatal four? The fighting grows more intense in this penultimate round of the Real Ultimate Showdown. Venture on to vote for WHO YOU WANT TO WIN in both match ups to determine who will advance the final […]

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Movies, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Television, Video Games

The Stages of a RPG Team's Development, Part 5: Performing

October 3, 2007 by The Chatty DM

This series compares the development of a RPG gaming group with that of a workplace team through the concepts of the 4-stages of team development.  This installment talks about the blissful stage of a performing group. Your players spontaneously discuss, in-character no less, the approach to a problem you sprung on them… and the agree […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: The 4 stages

Amusing Words

October 3, 2007 by DarthCthulhu

Here are some amusing made-up words about corporate life I have discovered:

Filed Under: Critical Bits

Closed for audit purposes…

October 2, 2007 by The Chatty DM

I’m hosting a pair of scientists for a quality audit of my lab on Wednesday and Thursday (I’m a Quality Officer in a Genomics service lab). I’m more or less focused on this so I have little creative juices for this here blog. But never fear dear reader, let’s see what excellent stuff I browsed […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: DMing

New Milestone!!!

October 2, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: Mille Bornes! (What? You never played that game???) This here blog thingnie hit the 100 unique visitor’s in a day mark for the 1st time yesterday at midnight. And that was before Martin’s shout-out this morning (Thanks so much, it means a lot to me)! I might as well spend a few lines […]

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

Guess Post: A Fey's Journal, 2nd Entry. Part 2

October 2, 2007 by The Chatty DM

This is the final part of Yan’s second Player log. See the 1st part here. At the shop everything went smoothly. Our shadier-looking members went in, pretending to be from another town and explaining they wanted to extend the market of this drug called Green Welcome. They gave the shop keeper a large bribe and […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Player Log

YouTube of the Week: No Rolling Required Edition

October 2, 2007 by Dave

Just a neat dice stacking video, of which there are many on YouTube. This particular one recommended by Boingboing.

Filed Under: YouTube Tuesday

Big Fluff, Small Crunch

October 1, 2007 by The Chatty DM

I’m still working on the Big Eyes, Small Mouth-Pokemon game for my 5 year-old son. I also read Dante’s and Martin’s excellent post on Improvising. I’m taking notes here! I bought 2 starters of The Pokemon Trading figure Game. My son whips my butt on a consistent basis and he loves those spinning figurines. I […]

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

Sadly missing the Brotherhood of Dada

October 1, 2007 by Dave

Comics Should Be Good’s Top 50 DC and Top 50 Marvel characters list is up at last, the summation of over 500 entrant’s top 10 lists among each publisher. My man Green Arrow made it in at #7, and The Question made it in at #13. And as is no surprise, my #1 Marvel character […]

Filed Under: Comics, Critical Bits

Inq. of the Week: Classic Game Trilogies

October 1, 2007 by Dave

So, how about that Halo 3, huh?… ::crickets:: Over 80% of you don’t own an Xbox 360, and won’t be picking one up to see what happens to the intrepid Master Chief and his supply of Mountain Dew. (No wonder Super-Soldiers were eliminated right away in the Real Ultimate Showdown.) At least 3 of you […]

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

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