Previously in Chatty’s game: Our heroes come out of a 2 year retirement period to tackle a slave ring operating from within an underground complex called Thunderspire Labyrinth. Shortly after making it into The Seven-Pillared Hall, the main civilized area of the Labyrinth, they located and wiped out one of the slavers’ cells . Using […]
“But that’s not how it went” Tokens
A few months ago, I was musing on other ways to use D&D 4e’s action points. Since, I’ve been pondering the unfamiliar elements of Narrative Control (i.e. who decides where the story goes). Being a somewhat rigid DM when it comes to storylines and how scenes are played out, the concept of sharing control with […]
New Feature: Character Class Reference
Just a quick announcement that I’ve put up another Feature: a reference guide for 4e classes. I didn’t have much luck finding fan-made classes, so do let me know if there are any I should add. Hopefully you find this useful when choosing your next character, or if you’re just curious about what all is out there.
Chatty’s Mailbox: Writing an Adventure
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 […]
YouTube Tuesday: Guinness Armor Edition
What happens when a beer-chugging rock band goes up against a group of LARPers? The results might surprise you. Warning: this video is metal. (via ENWorld)
Inq. of the Week: Oh Oh It’s Magic
While an interesting magic system is not enough to drive a fantasy setting, it does appear to be part of the main hook when getting readers. Likewise, in a fantasy RPG system, this provides an immediate appeal to playing the game if the magic is interesting enough.
Bedtime Campaign: Pilot Nico’s Battlebot!
This post is part of a growing series relating the role playing bedtime stories I make with my kids. I hope you still enjoy them. Over the holidays, I concluded Nico’s Sword of Dream story. I’m not going to write about it, mostly because I forgot to record them and I don’t remember much from […]
Critical Bits for the week ending 2009-01-10
New DDI Updates: “Prepare for the Resolution” http://is.gd/eMtl “Fist of Mourning” http://is.gd/eMtt “Don’t let the XP grind you down” http://is.gd/eMtD # Retweeting @thewanderingmen: Planescape: Torment fans might find this interesting: http://tinyurl.com/77cawc # WotC updates: Sylvan Cathedral http://is.gd/eRBL Whose Mug is That? http://is.gd/eRCj Digital Insider http://is.gd/eRCl #
CONTEST: Roll Into the New Year
We have two sets of dice to give away, courtesy of GM Dice. Our last contest had us choosing our contest winners, but as any GM can tell you, sometimes it’s just more fun to let the dice decide. To that end, we are making this contest entirely decided by the dice themselves.
The Michael Bay School of GMing: Say it with Rockets
This is a second guest post by reader Kitsune. With the recent debate surrounding the Rule of Cool and Critical Hits’ take on the Rule of C4, I thought this would be a good time to post Kitsune’s experimental essay on GMing. No doubt this will set some people’s teeth on edge while others may […]
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