Blogging is a strange beast. There are literally tens of millions of blogs on the internet. I’m sure most are inactive or are nothing more than Bot-driven post-stealing Google Ads strewn smears but it’s still a very impressive number. Even in the restricted niche of RPG blogs there seems to be scores of blogs (my […]
Moderates have fun too!
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 […]
D&D 4E: First Major Round of Errata
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 […]
Stop Having Fun: My Game is Better than your Game
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 […]
I’m finally done!
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 […]
The Tyranny of Fun…is a Load of Pure Unbridled BS!
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 […]
Email issues: Deactivating Subscriptions
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 […]
Chatty’s Questions: What’s your Dice Fetish?
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 […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: Season 1 Boxed Set
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 […]
The Perfect DM
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 […]
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