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Robin’s Laws Revisited: Part 4, Creating your Campaign

March 28, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This post is part of a series that revisits Robin Laws’ classic work on Gamemastering, called simply enough Robin’s Laws of Good Game Mastering. I tackle each chapter in order. It’s not so much a review of the book but more my views on the subjects Robin touched then. If you want to get better […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: DMing, Robin Laws, world building

Adventure Prep: My Rewind button

March 26, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This week, my actual prepping work is rather light. Since all 6 players are available (What are the odds?) we have to move the game out of my place. I can only accommodate 5 in my gaming den. That means I’ll have to pack my stuff to go to Math’s on Friday evening. It also […]

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

Linky love from a papercut DM!

March 24, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Hey there, I’m taking it cool today, Gym was tiring, and while I am working on a Robin Laws post, I realized that I need to spend a little bit more time reading up on stuff to do a good post on it. Plus, I got a paper cut on my ring finger today and […]

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

DM Chronicles, Session 13: Of Moons and Xanathos Railroads, Part 2

March 20, 2008 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. After the fight and Eric’s Bare-assed performance we moved on the evening’s 3rd scene. Now I won’t get into details of the scene, because there’s no way I could describe it without spending hundreds of words in backstory. Let’s just say that this time I really managed to surpass my tendency […]

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

Paizo’s 3.75

March 19, 2008 by Dave

Paizo announced yesterday that they will be sticking with their own re-branded version of Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 for their popular (and well made) Pathfinder series. The Pathfinder RPG will serve as the core book, which will update the 3.5 D&D Rules. You can even download the nice-looking Alpha document from Paizo’s site now. After […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Music, Roleplaying Games

This Just in… Pathfinder to remain 3.5

March 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

From the Paizo Newswire: Pathfinder™ to continue under the 3.5 rules. Tuesday, March 19th, 2008 Paizo Publishing today unveiled the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, a tabletop fantasy roleplaying game that will serve as the anchor for the company’s popular line of Pathfinder adventures, sourcebooks, and campaigns. Today marks the beginning of a year-long Open Playtest of […]

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

DM Chronicles, Session 13: Of Moons and Xanathos Railroads, Part 1

March 18, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This post is part of a series that chronicles our current D&D 3.5 campaign. To say that last Friday’s game wasn’t intense would be a bald faced lie… it just wasn’t intense for the reasons I planned for. This time around I won’t go into details of our actual story. First because it get so […]

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

FL1: Panhandle of the Lost

March 18, 2008 by Dave

DM: Alright, so tonight’s module is a solo thing, but you’ll meet up with other characters later. What are you playing? Player: I’ve got this Grad Student/Game Designer. Oh, and he just took a level of Web Designer for the extra income score. DM: That’ll come in handy for this one. OK, so: “You’ve been […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Roleplaying Games

Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: The Crowning Moment of a Character

March 16, 2008 by The Chatty DM

As I reading through the recent changes on TVtropes.org, I stumbled upon a Trope whose application to RPGs is as simple as it is brilliant: Crowning Moment Of Awesome The moment in a show when a character does something for which they will be remembered forever, winning for them the eternal loyalty of fans. While […]

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

Ending a Campaign: a Few Tips

March 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

It’s no secret that with the advent of the next edition of D&D, I have endings on the mind. While I’ve still got to make my final decision to adopt 4e upon reading the new Core books over the summer, chances are we are going to go the 4e way. I know many others are […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Theme week:Endings

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