Chatty DM: I’m currently on blogging Hiatus until the Week of December 20th. In the meantime, I post old articles of mine or bring you guest posts from my readers. Today, prepare for a treat from my friend Eric Maziade. Hi there! Don’t be fooled by the familiar decor: I’m not ChattyDM – most people […]
Chatty’s Reruns: Making Memorable NPCs
I’m on Blogging break until the week of December 20. In the meantime, I’m re-posting some of my old texts. In this one (August 29th 2007), you can see me start linking out to fellow bloggers where I write my take on a subject they recently talked about. Not too long after, I started getting […]
Chatty’s Reruns: My craziness and DMing….
Until the week of December 20th, I’ll be posting reruns of older blog posts. One of my earliest Blog posts (August 21st 2007). I wrote this while I was planning last year’s D&D campaign. Its still very actual and defines me as a person in all my life spheres. Its a bit rough around the […]
Inq. of the Week: Settings for Adventure
Results of the last question about what setting you want to see next, and we ask what settings you’ve actually played in.
Adventure Design: The Importance of Choices
Last night, while lying wide awake and watching the excellent Avatar cartoon series, I started pondering on how important it is for a characters to be shown as having an effect on a story. Avatar is filled to the brims with this. In each show, characters make choices, wrong and right. This ends up affecting […]
Bioshock’s Lead Designer on the Triumph of the Nerd
PAX 08 'Ken Levine Keynote' Ken Levine’s keynote speech from the latest Penny Arcade Expo is fantastic, so I’ve embedded it here. He talks extensively about what it was like growing up as a nerd in the 70’s, and talks extensively about finding a gaming group. Not only does he share much of how I […]
When in doubt, have them grow wings
I’ve written before about the many mean things I’ve done in horror RPGs. There’s another technique that I enjoy in any games that I run that ties into that, but doesn’t have to be mean. I enjoy transforming people’s characters.
Mutants and Mastermind: Hacking it so I can play it
Philippe – Always use your powers for Good. Steve Kenson Gen Con 2008 That’s what’s written in the inner cover of my copy of Mutants and Masterminds 2nd ED. I bought it at the Green Ronin booth on the last day at Gen Con last summer and when I saw that the author was behind […]
Contest: Give the Gift of D&D
We are giving away a prize pack that will give any new D&D player everything they need to get started.
RPG Blog Carnival: “Transitions and Transformations”
We have decided that, given that this is the end of the year and a time for change from one year to the next, that this month’s theme will be “Transitions and Transformations.” Tackle anything in RPGs about transitions from one thing to the next, or any kind of transformation that occurs in RPGs.
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