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Moderates have fun too!

July 17, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Okay so 2 days ago I posted a rant against the mere concept of the Tyranny of Fun. Now not only was I surprised to get some feedback from Mike Mearls (giving yours truly a fanboi moment) but I was absolutely astounded at the civil, dynamic exchange of point of views.  Out of the post […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

D&D 4E: First Major Round of Errata

July 17, 2008 by Bartoneus

Wizards has posted errata and updates to the 4th Edition D&D core rulebooks, and there are quite a bit of changes / fixes.  Head over to the Wizard’s site and check out the text pdf’s, I’ve printed them out and am wondering how exactly I am going to efficiently going to use them. Some highlights […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, 4th Edition, D&D, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons

Stop Having Fun: My Game is Better than your Game

July 17, 2008 by Dave

Spinning out of Chatty’s discussion on the “Tyranny of Fun“, we see that what a lot of the argument boils down to is that people have different playstyles and tastes, and different games meet those playstyles and tastes. However, many of the “Edition Warriors” out there attempt to frame it as a matter of one […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Editorial, Roleplaying Games

I’m finally done!

July 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

After nearly 3 weeks of procrastination, World of Warcrafting and some serious intense writing, I’m finally done with preparing my half of the GM-Fu Gen Con Seminar. I wrote about 12-14 pages of tips and tricks on Tropes and Player types motivations. A lot of it is original stuff (as I felt bad recycling too […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

The Tyranny of Fun…is a Load of Pure Unbridled BS!

July 15, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m starting to get annoyed at all the hate being spewed about the Tyranny of Fun, whatever the fuck that expression means. I won’t link to any of them as I find that a rational discourse on this is nigh impossible seeing how emotionnaly charged the atmosphere around that screwed up concept is. Google it […]

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

Email issues: Deactivating Subscriptions

July 14, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’ve e-mailing issues with the blog lately. There are a some comments that I’m not getting notification for since I activated the “Subscribe to this post” plugin. Have others been having issues with emails from the blog? I might not re-instate the plugin.  I encourage you to follow comment on the following feed: http://chattydm.net/comments/feed/ Sorry […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Chatty’s Questions: What’s your Dice Fetish?

July 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m almost done with my Gen Con Seminar prep, I should be done by Tuesday and come back with meatier fare soon after.  Here’s another content light post! I started reading a pretty good webcomic called Weregeek (thanks Sandrinnad!). In one strip, the author addresses the Dice Fetish trope were one player freaks out when […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: Season 1 Boxed Set

July 12, 2008 by The Chatty DM

One of the lessons I learned from the Ennies Nominations is that my Site could gain from better navigation tools. This post is a step in this direction as I’ll put a link to it in my sidebar. Director’s Intro: I discovered the TVTropes wiki on the ‘Okay…Your Turn‘ gaming forum early in September 2007 […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

The Perfect DM

July 11, 2008 by Dave

According to players, the Perfect DM should be able to… Create an evocative world with every tiny detail thought out for whatever the players decide to investigate or whichever NPC they decide to converse with. Be able to improvise an entire adventure based on the whim of the players, in case they decide they don’t […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: D&D, DM, DMing, dungeon master

Forget OD&D and AD&D: Play DD&D

July 11, 2008 by Dave

For Drinking Dungeons & Dragons. As the planning for Gen Con goes ahead (mostly involving me panicking about not having signed up for anything), I continue my quest to trick some of the RPG bloggers into entertaining me at the convention by running games for my benefit. Well, I think I’ve finally tricked the Chatty […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games

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