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Interview: Monte Cook about Dungeonaday.com

March 11, 2009 by Dave

Monte Cook just announced his ambitious new project: Dungeonaday.com. Of course, as primarily a 4e DM and player, my first question was “would I be able to use it in my campaign?” So I went to the source, and asked Mr. Cook himself that very question, along with a few others.

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 3e, 4e, dungeonaday, monte cook, OGL

Open Game Table: Anthology

March 11, 2009 by Bartoneus

Our friend Jonathan over at The Core Mechanic has announced the release date for his first Open Game Table project, The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs. This anthology is a great collection of RPG blog posts, chosen by members of the community, that represent some of the best in roleplaying game information on the internet.

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: anthology, open game table, roleplaying, Roleplaying Games

Chatty’s Megadungeon: Foundations

March 10, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Aptly enough, Monte launched his new Megadungeon project, have a look here. Like lightning, inspiration struck me over the weekend.  Last Friday’s musings on Megadungeons has left my brain splattered all over the place with a ton of ideas for adapting the old concept to my current way of playing the game. I’ve got so […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Megadungeon, Tropes, world building

DM Chronicles: Session 11, Foray into the Well of Demons, part 2

March 10, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. With all that shared narrative and roleplaying out of the way (just kidding…mostly), the players were ready to start exploring the Well of Demons. I must say that I really like this part of the adventure.  It was the first one that reads like a true dungeon crawl. It’s made up […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

DM Chronicles: Session 11, Foray into the Well of Demons, part 1

March 9, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Previously in Chatty’s game: Our heroes, with a treacherous doppelganger in their ranks, faced the Duergar leader in his abode.  When failure seemed imminent, the wounded grey dwarf leader sought help from his minions stationed in a nearby room and like a horde they poured in and surrounded our wounded, tired heroes. Against all odds, […]

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

Catch that Wagon: Return to the Mega-Dungeon

March 6, 2009 by The Chatty DM

I’ve been trying to write that post all day long and I keep getting distracted… I can feel it coming.. one of my dreaded/beloved consciousness-devouring, depression-killing creative surges… I have dungeons on my mind.  More precisely, I think about Mega-Dungeons, a lot.  Those huge, multi-leveled sprawling complex that were at the core of the first […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Megadungeon, new school, old school

Yet another PHB2 post (Better get used to it)

March 5, 2009 by The Chatty DM

I join my voice to those who already have started bragging posting about having received pre-market copies of the Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook 2 from Wizards of the Coast. As I was leaving with my family today for some early season Sugar Shacking (it’s not as dirty as it sounds, unless you eat without […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: player's handbook 2

“Player’s Handbook 2”: I haz it

March 4, 2009 by Dave

Myself, along with a number of other excellent bloggers, have received preview copies of PHB2. We are all working together to put together a pretty big event around it starting March 13th, and hopefully a series of other supplementary articles about the release. In the meantime, however, I am allowed to answer questions. The ground […]

Filed Under: News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: PHB2, player's handbook 2

Remembering Gygax Through Friendship

March 4, 2009 by Dave

One year ago, shortly after posting about GM’s Day, I saw the news that shocked and saddened me: Gary Gygax had left us. Being the geeks that we are, we made all kinds of metaphors. (Gone to travel the outer planes is probably my favorite). Tributes began to roll in, not just from us RPG […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: gary gygax, personal, rememberance

A Special day and Family Time

March 4, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Happy GM day to all. I know that today marks both the annual day dedicated to Gamemasters all around the planet and it also happens to be the 1st anniversary of Gary Gygax departure. I owe him a lot and he is in my thoughts. I’m not online much this week because I decided to […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

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