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Project Kobold Love is re-launched!

September 24, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Head on over my newest Website to witness the newly re-launched Kobold Love project. I think it’s a lot clearer for all. I also like to think that the project is now more interesting to would be participants. I’d like to know who’s still in, so please tell me over there.  I made commenting less […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

DM Chronicles: Session 2, Indiana Gnomes and the Technicolor Snake, Part 1

September 24, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Previously in Chatty’s game (Part 1 and Part 2): A group of young adventurers gets invited to the Harvest festivities by the region’s biggest Halfling Robber Baron after saving one of his numerous Coastal Venture Forts from the hated Human pirates. Late after the day’s festivities, they get attacked by an Ape Man assassin whose […]

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

This s**t is EPIC!

September 23, 2008 by Dave

The Dragon magazine update for today (hurry, grab them as they come out before you have to pay or pirate!) is all about epic destinies for Forgotten Realms. It includes 3 new epic desitines: Elf High Mage, Harper of Legend, and Mythic Sovereign. Elf High Mage starts to become one with magic itself, granting all […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, dragon, faerun, forgotten realms

Chatty’s Question: Reactions to your RPG hobby?

September 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

1985: I’m in 6th grade and the phone rings at home. My mom picks up and another stay-at-home mom says that she heard her son talk about this new D&D game I’m playing.  She warns my mother that kids who play that game have committed suicide. My mother answers that she trusts my judgment and […]

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

Thanks to some Gnomes, I have custom sounds

September 16, 2008 by Dave

So remember that contest I told you all to enter, where the prizes were custom RPG sounds from World of Twilights Studio? Turns out I won the grand prize. Funny, huh? (I also won a prize in the one-sentence NPC contest, so I guess pimping other people’s contests works.) Well, I’ve been emailing back and […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games

Random Thoughts Table: Magic NPCs!

September 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

So yeah, as I was chugging along Kobold Love’s 1st scene, I hit a snag with the skill challenge and I needed help ‘debugging it’.  Graham ran to the rescue but when we were done, I had 1/2 a post and very little time left for sleep. So I thought I’d share a pair of […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Link Love

Inq. of the Week: 4th Edition Classes?

September 15, 2008 by Bartoneus

We’re finally back on a regular schedule, and temperatures are beginning to drop into that lovely cool – comfortable range (for about a week, that’s how long fall lasts in Maryland), it’s becoming clear that summer is drawing to a close.  Last week Dave asked how many of you partake in the monk-like practice of […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, classes, D&D, dnd, dnd4e, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, roleplaying, Roleplaying Games, roleplaying games

Gaming at the Speed of Nostalgia

September 12, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Wil Wheaton is probably about my age (35) because when I read his recent post about going through his gaming library, I couldn’t help thinking that we loved  the same freaking games! (I checked, he’s 36). As I read his stuff online, I see he’d have made a great gaming buddy. We could have ribbed […]

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

Kobold Love: Intro, Background and Summary, Part 2

September 11, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Part 1 is here. Introduction. For nearly 40 years, adventurers have been investigating dungeons, killing their inhabitants and making off with their possessions.  To this day, for many, this remains a respectable life.  Others found that it got old and moved on to other forms of adventuring. But what about the dungeon denizens?  Some would […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Epic Laundry Basket: Buried. Happy, but buried.

September 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Projects are exploding.  I’m solicited from multiple sides.  My sideline “job” as a RPG writer is promising. All good! I’m writing the next Kobold Love post slowly and carefully so that I give you a good 1st draft.  I hope to post it this week. Still good. TwittRPG is a success, but I won’t keep […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

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