About a year ago, I wrote about player types and motivations. It’s a subject that’s very near my DMing heart because I believe that the recipe of a good campaign lies in understanding your players and catering to their specific needs as much as you cater to yours in your game. Lately, I’ve been musing […]
Lessons from the Heroic Tier
This March, I placed my game on hiatus so that I could graduate. At that time, some of the players were at 9th level and not too far from 10, so I decided to cheat a little and advance all the players to Paragon to begin the next chapter on the next tier. However, during the 9 levels of solid play we got in, I learned a few things about D&D 4e, at least as far as I could learn from the heroic tier. Here’s what I’ve learned about running 4e for close to 10 levels, in no particular order.
Contest is now Closed (for real)
The One-Page dungeon contest is now closed. We have passed the 100 entries point making this an awesomely successful endeavor. What started as a crazy idea to get the word our on the template has lead to a deluge of entries. Of course, we’ll need some time to look them over and judge them. There’s […]
Last Day for the One Page Dungeon Contest (for Real)!
As Chgowiz says on his website this morning: We have a plan and we have a clear, unambiguous, well thought out deadline! Today is the last day to send us your One page dungeons. Your entries need to hit our email box at onepage@chattydm.net BEFORE 8.00am – Eastern Time – US tomorrow (May 21st, 2009)! […]
Primal/Within Chronicles: Election Day, Part Two
See part 1 here. Morning Plenary The second scene of the evening was a plenary where the voters and candidates mingled during a luxurious breakfast set in a specially-built area of Delve #57. The PCs were there as all other security and support staff. For the next 45-60 minutes, I let my players play out […]
Chatty Bits: Deadlands Ideas
(This discussion actually happened, I have edited some part to make it into a better story) As I was planning my bi-monthly game, my IM chat windows pops up. RFJ: Question for you Ô chatty one. Chatty: I’ll try to answer Ô (name censored for security purposes) RFJ: Many thanks. If you are a voodoo […]
Inq. of the Week: Age of Roleplaying?
This week I’ve been thinking about something that I don’t believe we have touched on yet, and that’s at what age people start playing RPGs. I’ve heard from quite a few people that are new to D&D with 4th edition from various ages, but even just yesterday I ran my D&D game with a player who had not played since 2nd edition many years ago and is now trying it out again.
Primal/Within Chronicles: Election Day, Part One
Previously in Phil’s game: Our Heroes fought some undead captives charged with protecting the Font of Sorrows. Later, Spurt the Silvered Bulette found them and they managed to subdued it. Exploring the water temple chaos further, they discovered a passage to the High Priest’s crypt where they fought a giant undead tree and a pair […]
ChattyDM.net domain hacked
A few days ago, my domain (chattydm,net) was hacked. This attack injected hidden ads in the header of most of the websites I run/share on this domain, including Critical-hits and the RPG Bloggers Network’s forum. This was most likely done by a hostile script that Corrupted all our php scripts by inserting encrypted data in […]
Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #2
Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #1 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #2 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #3 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #4 Monster Manual 2 – In Depth #5 (coming soon) Demon – The demons get an excellent group of additions in this book. The Abyssal Eviscerator (lvl 14 […]
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