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Con-Versations: Highlights of The Grand Roludothon

June 14, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty recounts his gaming day at a local con, describing the highlights of his Dungeon Reality Show and Old School Job sessions.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, convention report, conventions, Cortex Plus, D&D, d&d 4e, Dungeon Reality Show, Dungeons and Dragons, Leverage RPG, Old School Job, Roludo, Roludothon

The Old School Job, Part 2: The Lich-Sorceress’ Release

May 19, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty recounts the story generated by his new Leverage RPG fantasy hack, much to the consternation of catholic nuns and easily offended souls.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Freelance Writing, Game Hacks & Content, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

The Old School Job, Part 1: The Temple-Brothel of Monte-Cookus

May 18, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty finally reveals what new RPG hack he’s been working on for so long and starts telling the story of his latest play test game in a mythical fantasy city.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Freelance Writing, Game Hacks & Content, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games, Uncategorized Tagged With: Cortex Plus, Hack, Leverage RPG, Old School Job

Chatty in Washington: Highlights of DC Gameday

May 17, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty exits his blog silence to share the best tidbits of his Washington DC trip to attend a gaming con.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Blowback, dc gameday, Mouse Guard, Washington

The Dungeon Reality Show, D&D Essentials Edition, Part 1

February 1, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty starts relating how his recent Dungeon Reality Show was such a huge success and starts his reconciliation with D&D 4e.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits Tagged With: d&d 4e, Demos, Dungeon Reality Show, one-shot, Say Yes, Teaching RPGs

Chatty Plays: Freemarket Part 3, Ghost’N’Breakin’

January 27, 2011 by The Chatty DM

This post chronicles the second half of our Freemarket game.  You can follow my post on character creation here and my recounting of the first half here.  Let’s conclude our David vs Goliath story of stolen sex toys designs, covetous enlightened blanks and subtle revenge. Quick dramatis personae reminder: Jack Knife (Yan): Jack of many […]

Filed Under: Actual Play, Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: Chatty's 2010-2011 campaigns, facebook, Flow, Freemarket, Project Donut, sci-fi, Singularity, social networks, The Donut

Chatty Play’s: Freemarket Part 2, The Steam Stallion

January 24, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty shamefully tells the tale of how his players used a brand new, state-of-the-Art Role Playing Game and tested it’s revolutionary task resolution mechanic… to make a wall and a sex toy. True Story, but hell did everyone have fun.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: Chatty's 2010-2011 campaigns, facebook, Flow, Freemarket, Project Donut, sci-fi, Singularity, social networks, The Donut

Chatty Plays: Freemarket Part 1, Character Generation

January 22, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty writes about his Freemarket game, starting with character generation. Expect some gushing about the game system and a walk through of Char Gen

Filed Under: Actual Play, Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: Chatty's 2010-2011 campaigns, facebook, Freemarket, Project Donut, sci-fi, Singularity, social networks, The Donut

Fiasco Friday: Chatty’s Tale of Suburbia, Act 2 and Aftermath

December 6, 2010 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty concludes his tale of drugs, meaningless sex and violence in an unnamed American suburb. Reader discretion is advised.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Drugs, fiasco, Revenge, sex, tales from suburbia

Fiasco Friday: Chatty’s Tale of Suburbia, Act 1

December 3, 2010 by The Chatty DM

In my quest to play as many different RPGs as I could before settling on new campaigns after the holidays, I finally got to play Fiasco last Friday. Here be the game report, part 1!

Filed Under: Actual Play, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Drugs, fiasco, Revenge, sex, tales from suburbia

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