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Don’t Touch That! A Winter Solstice Tale

December 17, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Last week, Wizards of the Coast posted a contest on their community site (which many of us call Wizbook). The contest is still open for a few days (until December 21st actually) and so far only 2 entries were sent in, mine and my friend Dave: The Game of Critical Hits fame. Entrants can win […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, holiday encounter contest, traps

Tales of the City Within: a 5X5 Sandbox experiment.

June 23, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Summer is upon us and that usually means that our bi-monthly D&D become less formal.  Attendance tends to fluctuate wildly and our play sessions are usually shorter. In past years, we’ve used the summer period to test out new games or new PCs. This year, most of my players have manifested an interest to keep […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: 4e, Chatty's 2009 Summer Campaign, Primal/Within, Tropes

Adventure Prep: The City Adventure

May 6, 2009 by The Chatty DM

For my next D&D session (which is on Friday next week), I’ve decided to go for a city-based adventure. We’ve played 3 sessions into our new Primal/Within campaign and all those were focused on the Dungeon part of the setting and very little on the city (except to interact with Quest giving NPCs). I think […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: City Adventures, Primal/Within, Tropes, world building

The Primal/Within Campaign: The Dungeon as a NPC

April 8, 2009 by The Chatty DM

As someone told me earlier today, back to our original programming! With my last mini-campaign done and completed, I’m getting ready to start playing my new homebrewed campaign centered around the Primal Dungeon and The City Within. One of the key challenges that I’ve found with campaigns with an overarching story arc is that I […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: 4e, Chatty's 2008-2009 campaign, Megadungeon, Primal/Within, Tropes, world building

Adventure Prep: Hacking the Written Word

March 14, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Some time ago, I used to blog about how I prepared my bi-monthly games and posted them before my actual game sessions.  It was a writing challenge because I was trying to write something significant for my readers while limiting spoilers for my players (most of whom are readers of this here blog). I stopped […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Chatty's 2008-2009 campaign

Chatty’s Mailbox: Writing an Adventure

January 13, 2009 by The Chatty DM

As some of you may know, I just finished writing a draft for a D&D 4e adventure to be possibly published by Goodman Games (if the editor likes it).  I’ve been posting vague updates on Twitter and Facebook  and such for the last few weeks and some have been following it, being very supportive. So […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Tropes

Adventure Prep: Online D&D game trial

November 20, 2008 by The Chatty DM

As discussed here, I’ve gotten a group of geeks together to experiment with playing D&D online. The first game (Friday night) is mostly about meeting with the players online, getting our various software working and maybe try playing a short D&D 4e Scenario. For the first game we settled for Gametable as the Virtual tabletop […]

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Adventure Prep: Keeping it Simple and Stupid

November 12, 2008 by The Chatty DM

All right so last night I sat down to prep for my game as I planned it here and here.  My goal of the night was to be done with the first half of the adventure: Getting on the Fey Airship and reaching the player’s destination. I got out all the battle maps (I have […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Adventure Prep: Fitting everything in one evening

November 11, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Since I’m running a D&D 4e home brewed adventure for my gaming group this week, a lot of my creative energies will be focused there for the next few days. A guy needs his priorities straight and my D&D game is pretty much at the top of my ‘use of free time’ list. This means […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: 4e, Chatty's 2008-2009 campaign

Adventure Prep: Of Airships, Feys and Player Input

November 6, 2008 by The Chatty DM

After a poisoned pillow fight, Slave apes and a librarian warrior chainmail bikini fetish, I promised my players that I’d write the last part of our 1st D&D 4e campaign and bring it to an apex of coolness. Since our next session is next week and the adventure is actually going to be a homebrewed […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: 4e, Chatty's 2008-2009 campaign

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