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Chatty’s Question: Your duality as a DM/GM

November 5, 2008 by The Chatty DM

As discussed last week, GMs are often really hard on themselves. Yet we can’t all be doing a bad job now can’t we? So I thought to myself, how about we talk some more about that. I want to know that one thing you know you are good at as a GM.  Tell us what […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Are you ready to ROCK?

November 4, 2008 by Dave

Thoughts on the official 4e D&D Bard, comparisons to the other 4e Bards recently released, and a look back on old 4e speculation.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, bard, classes

Supers Carnival Roundup!

November 4, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Hello, I’m Chatty DM, your host for last month’s RPG Blog Carnival.  It was quite a month for Super Heroic RPG blog goodness let me tell you. So here’s my digest! Things started out with my good friend Greywulf where he picked some Supers Tropes (Alternate Origins, Costumes, Group names, Base of Operations, etc) and […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Chatty’s Finds: Kids, Castle and Caves

November 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

During my daily luminotherapy sessions, I travel the net for some blog goodies. Through Jeff’s Gameblog and through James’s Lamentation of the Flame Princess, I found a link to an outfit called Brave Halfling Production that currently supports some of the Retro-Clone games out there (i.e. New RPGs inspired by the rulesets of the Original […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: gaming with children, Gaming with Kids

Chatty’s Inter-Review: Yan on Forgotten Heroes

November 1, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I decided a few weeks ago that weekend posts would be experimental in nature.  This is where I would test out new concepts or potential series, a writing workbench so to speak. This week, I’m posting a review of a product a friend of mine read and I interviewed him on it. I’m calling this […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, goodman games

Mean Things I Have Done in Horror RPGs

October 31, 2008 by Dave

Had a PC’s longtime girlfriend seduced by a butt-ugly vampire. Replaced a resurrected PC with his evil twin… permanently. (As a result of this) Force said evil twin into working with the PCs after he was disowned by the rest of his doppelganger crew. Killed a PC’s roommate, brought him back as a Frankenstein’s Monster. […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: call of cthulhu, gm advice, horror

Afterschool Trope Special: Fill Up the Nighmare Mobile

October 31, 2008 by The Chatty DM

What, two Trope posts in the same week? Why not? It’s been ages since I wrote any of them, and this is Halloween after all. With a satisfying ‘thunk’ Tragak the barbarian sheared the Orc Shaman’s head, sending it flying in the room’s dank, dark corner. As he was looting the body, he failed to […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games, Tropes Tagged With: halloween, horror, Tropes, Tropes Season 2

Give Feedback to your GM… and live! Part 2.

October 29, 2008 by The Chatty DM

In part 1, I discussed about players giving feedback (both good and bad) to DMs in such a way to make it more useful and to limit the damage of criticism. Today I want to talk directly to the GMs who, while craving feedback, aren’t always that ready to get it. Having to prep, run […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Feedback

Kobold Love Playtesting Posted

October 29, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Last night I posted the last part of Kobold Love’s playtesting report from the Draconis gaming con. (For those not in the know, Kobold Love is a long winded project where I tackle writing a D&D 4e adventure directly on a website, open to comments and feedback.  Other readers are also invited to tackle this […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Afterschool Trope Post: Holy Super Heroic Fantasy Batman!

October 27, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This month, I am the custodian of the RPGbloggers Monthly Carnival which is about Super Heroes. I thought it would be a perfect occasion to do a new Trope post about mixing some Super Heroes in my D&D Kool Aid! Trope: A narrative shortcut taken in a story that the audience will recognize and have […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games, Tropes Tagged With: 4e, Super Heroes, Tropes, Tropes Season 2

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