Phil the Chatty DM is holding a contest to get adventure synopses/hooks. The only catch? They have to be exactly 10 words. Yours truly will be helping to judge, so head over there now and give me tons of good stuff to look at! (And steal ideas from!)
Stealing a good idea: The 10 words adventure synopsis
In order to make up for my militant rant of last night, I thought I’d steal Penny Arcade’s excellent concept and give out a little brainstorming writing assignment for your RPG campaign and then share it Here’s the assignment, write an adventure concept (any genre) in exactly 10 words and post it in the comments. […]
Chatty’s Review: Broadsword or Let Me Break that Sword on Your Head!
A few months ago, I promised fellow RPG blogger Jeff Mejia (infamously known as ‘The Evil Dm‘) that I’d review Broadsword, the indy RPG game he co-wrote with James Stubbs, as well as his recently published companion book World of Broadsword. As mentioned yesterday, instead of asking Jeff for free review copies (he offered to […]
Mini-Link: The Stew, the Rant and the Barbarian!
Super casual weekend post here, I’ve got my 90 minute Lasagna to prepare (Anyone want’s my recipe?) because tonight I have a special visitor! Extradited Montrealer and DMing blogger extraordinaire Yax is in town on vacation and I’ve invited him over for dinner. Now either expect us to seal our power sharing deal for world […]
The Teardown
Let’s start with an analogy. Let’s say you’ve just written a short story for class in college. You hand it in to your professor, and get a B. There are plenty of editor’s marks on it: spelling, grammar, some minor organizational stuff. Then there are the overall comments, like “doesn’t flow well” or “theme isn’t […]
Chatty on 4e: I heart Grapple!
(Click on the images to be able to read the word bubbles) Last week I dropped by my Favorite Local Game Store (FLGS) to buy myself a few boxes of the 1st official 4e product available: the Dungeons of Dread D&D miniature game. I purchased the Starter and 2 booster boxes. Before I dig in […]
When You Have GMs as Players
In the last few weeks, I’ve been discussing with Johnn Four of Roleplayingtips.com (you should subscribe!) about setting up some sort of monthly guest feature on his very popular GMing newsletter for me to share GMing tips (Notice the use of the more generic GM). Earlier today, my first column was posted here. I’m reprinting […]
Adventure Prep: To Analyze and to Fluff
As I write this I realize that it’s a very clinical assessment and analysis of my current campaign. I’ll post it to show you how I go at it, but it might be a bit heavier than my usual fare. As mentioned in my last few Adventure Prep or Campaign log posts, I’ve stopped systematically […]
When Funny Becomes Story
As I look at my schedule (I have visit coming over, a game to prepare and the job has started being a bit heavier again), I’m not sure how much I can post this week. So I thought I’d share with you a short but funny memory brought up by a Gtalk chat I had […]
Chatty’s Mailbox: The Magnificent Villain
While I was writing my 300th milestone post, I got a very interesting email from a reader. Here’s what he wrote: Good afternoon! I’ve been a long time reader of and commenter on your blog, and I was looking for some brainstorming help. Specifically, what kind of holds could a magnificent bastard have over a […]
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