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Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: The Quest Improbable

April 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

It’s been too long I know. After having done more that 20 Trope related posts, it becomes kind of daunting to try to produce one that won’t be a re-hash of a previous one (or, you know, bad!). As I was losing time on the TV Tropes wiki looking for some more character specific trope […]

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

Adventure Prep: Hide in Shadows

April 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I sat down yesterday to prep and I’m a bit out of ideas for custom scenes and hacking ideas for the adventure we’re playing (Expedition to the Demonweb Pits). I therefore decided to play the next session almost directly from the adventure and I set out to read it once again to familiarize myself with […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Tropes

Chatty’s Mailbox: Of Terrain, Random Generation and Villains

April 8, 2008 by The Chatty DM

A few weeks ago, I got a nice email from a reader, full of praise and constructive feedback (I love those!) and in the mail there were a few questions. I thought I’d respond to it in post form and maybe encourage people to send more questions at chattydm@chattydm.net. If it catches on, it may […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Chatty's Mailbox, Tropes

(Really)Mini-Post: A GM’s Authority

April 7, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I took two days off from work today and tomorrow and that somewhat includes blogging (unless I get an inspiration like I just did now). I’m currently writing a guest post for another RPG site and while I was editing my work, I added this small sentence: It’s one thing to have a rule book […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: mini-post

Chatty on 4e: Retro-Stupid vs… well Retro-Stupid

April 6, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This is the second in an series of articles where I tackle 2 short subjects on 4e from a DM’s perspective and ask for your thoughts. The 1st one can be found here. While I was reading stuff on D&D 4e on the various blogs, news sites and the Worlds and Monsters book (which I […]

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

Pathfinder #7 Preview: Curse of the Crimson Throne #1

April 4, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m having issues with uploading images to the blog’s server. That’s why this one actually points to Paizo’s site… I’m going to take a different approach with this series of review. While I’ll still list what’s in the adventure, I’ll add more of a review element to it. Paizo started publishing their own 3.5 OGL […]

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

Pathfinder Preview: Curse of the Crimsom Throne Player’s Guide

April 2, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I got a nice, very red, surprise in the mail yesterday. It was Paizo’s Pathfinder #7, the 1st adventure of the series’ second Adventure Path, along with a copy of the player’s guide. Since I got the guide this time, I thought I’d preview it first and then tackle the adventure tomorrow. The Curse of […]

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

Lies, All Lies (and a Mindflayer)

April 2, 2008 by Dave

Obviously, I don’t give a crap about Celebrity Gossip and Canadian Politics (as should be evidenced by my difficulty writing about it.) Nor are we filthy rich, especially not as a result of the site. (Though we did get a new advertiser today… coincidence?) In the midst of all the brilliant gags posted by Wizards, […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games

DM Chronicles, Session 14: You Wanted Planescape? You Got It!

April 1, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This is part of a long running series that chronicles my current D&D campaign set in an adapted version of Ptolus. Oh yeah… I’m not actually quitting.. While it is a lot of work, I’m still having fun here. Last game I played a rather badly designed plot exposition scene that left our enjoyment of […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: 3.5e, Chatty's 2007-2008 campaign

A New Direction

April 1, 2008 by Dave

Obviously, if Chatty has found a new source of income, we can too. For that reason, we’ve decided to change our coverage a bit here in order to deliver the news that you have been requesting for a long time. Besides, as of today, this industry just isn’t the same. ENWorld now exclusively covers OD&D. […]

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