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Adventure Prep: Pirate Dragons, Ninja Apes and Hot Fighter-Librarian Chick

October 15, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This is part of a very long running series where I share how I go at prepping my D&D games a few days before our bi-monthly game night. I might not have a game Friday, my roll call so far confirms 2 missing players (Cleric and Wizard) and unless all remaining four confirm, the game […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM

DM Chronicles: Session 1, That’s how you start a Campaign! Part 2

September 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. The Banquet We started with all PCs participating in a seemingly endless Banquet hosted by the local Merchant Baron, Brandobaris the Fat. Late into the scene’s night, after some interesting Roleplaying, Brandobaris opened a casket of Drow Wine, reputed to turn into a deadly poison 5 minutes after being exposed to […]

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

Campaign/Adventure Prep: 4th Edition Treasure Hunters!

August 27, 2008 by The Chatty DM

My gaming group usually takes off for the summer. We put our campaign on hiatus because of vacations, family quality time and yard work. While we gamed some (Magic:The Addiction, one shot RPG games, etc) this summer was rather dry. Next Friday is the long awaited start of our new gaming season and both my […]

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

The Unauthorized Ascension of the Drow Spy Report

August 24, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This is my play report of Nicolas Logue’s Ascension of the Drow prequel Mega-Adventure. It was a free-for all, storytelling-intensive D&D 3.5 game featuring 126 players (21 tables of 6) and more than 33 GMs. Everyone was sharing the same game at the same time! It was held at Gen Con and ran from 7h00 […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: gen con 2008, pathfinder

New Contest: The One Sentence NPC!

June 22, 2008 by The Chatty DM

We’ve had a few contests, here at Musings of the Chatty DM. For instance, we recently had the very successful 10 word Adventure and very useful Characterization ones. Now it’s time for something bigger! I have teamed up with RPG e-Zine mogul Johnn Four (of roleplayingtips.comfame) to bring you the biggest independent RPG-themed contest to […]

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

Chatty on 4e: Exploration vs Competence / Fun vs Satisfaction!

June 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’ve mentioned in older posts that D&D 4e seemed to go back to the roots of the game for simplicity of Game Prep and monster stats. So far this has been true. At worse, game stats for level 30 creatures take one full column of the Monster Manual. Such baddies are usually limited to 4-5 […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e

Adventure Prep: Grand Finale, World Saved? Roll Credits!

May 7, 2008 by The Chatty DM

There we are, this is going to be the last Adventure Prep post of the current campaign. A lot of things were said since that September 6th night where I pondered how to salvage a campaign that started on the wrong foot. Now I’m planning how to end it. Last game, the PCs met with […]

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Adventure Prep: To Analyze and to Fluff

April 23, 2008 by The Chatty DM

As I write this I realize that it’s a very clinical assessment and analysis of my current campaign. I’ll post it to show you how I go at it, but it might be a bit heavier than my usual fare. As mentioned in my last few Adventure Prep or Campaign log posts, I’ve stopped systematically […]

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Adventure Prep: Hide in Shadows

April 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

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 […]

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

Adventure Prep: My Rewind button

March 26, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This week, my actual prepping work is rather light. Since all 6 players are available (What are the odds?) we have to move the game out of my place. I can only accommodate 5 in my gaming den. That means I’ll have to pack my stuff to go to Math’s on Friday evening. It also […]

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

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