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My New Year's goals

January 1, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I don’t do resolutions. Personally, resolutions always imply that I need to change something. The “need to change” expression seems to be guilt-laden (yeah, I was raised a catholic) and implies that the resolution will be hard to implement and/or unpleasant. What I do set for myself are goals. For me, a goal implies that […]

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

Chatty's blog 1/2 year in review.

December 31, 2007 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty DM rambles about the cool things brought on by blogging. On July 24th, 2007 after 2 failed attempts on MSN Space and Live Journal, I finally made a jump to blogging using Google’s Blogger.  Having no clear idea what to actually talk about, I started rambling about my future campaign, online tools, […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Inquisition of the Week: Best Game of 2007

December 31, 2007 by Dave

We’re going to run the poll for another week to see if more people will come forward to defend the honor of 2007. Reverend Mike makes a great point that it might not be as good as we hoped with the Writer’s Strike messing up the movie and tv schedules. I should also point out […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games, Video Games Tagged With: game of the year, games, gaming, movie, rock band

My D&D Flavour: House Rules for Badass Heroes.

December 30, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Tommi made a post suggestion in my last Adventure Prep post: “How about a brief summary of the house rules you use for those who have not read everything you have ever posted”? I’m happy to comply…. except for the brief part. 😀 The core of the rules we use is D&D 3.5 with a […]

Filed Under: Game Hacks & Content, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Adventure Prep: Of Planescaping and High Intensity Hacking, Part 1

December 27, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Here I sit, mentally preparing myself for the next half of our D&D 07-08 season. As I promised my players almost 5 months ago, I’m sending them Plane-hoping in the Great Cosmic Wheel. I’m done reading Planescape and while I love the setting’s potential, I was rather irritated by the late 90’s “Storytelling is a […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: DMing

DM Chronicles, Session 8: Heroic Conclusions

December 26, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Previously in Phil’s game: Our Heroes beat the leader of the Cult of Sehan and various other aberrations in an ancient tomb that predates modern Ptolus. After a short rest on Andach’s island, they returned, searching for a way to that pool of glowing green slime that may or may not contain Sehan. They had […]

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

YouTube of the Week: IM IN YOUR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR Edition

December 25, 2007 by Dave

Best. YouTube title. Ever. Found at ENWorld.

Filed Under: Roleplaying Games, YouTube Tuesday

Mini-Trope: No, I won't let you tell me about your character…

December 22, 2007 by The Chatty DM

A few weeks ago, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek post about tropish DMs. Tonight I felt like tackling the equivalent for players. Once again this is going to be a satirical post and not an actual critic on play style. As usual, if this offends you…. ah heck, it’s not like I’m shopping for new players… […]

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

Chatty's Review: Silvervine, Introduction

December 21, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Shortly after I re-posted Greywulf’s ‘DM/GM requirements Specification’ for a RPG (called the Dungeonmaster’s Creed), I got an Email from John Arcadian who I knew as a longtime Treasure Tables Commenter. Well after having read the Creed, John told me that he and a few collaborators, were working on a new RPG system called Silvervine […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Quick, Quiet, and Wild

December 21, 2007 by Dave

Wizards of the Coast has given 4e anticipaters a holiday present in the form of the entire Elf entry from the Player’s Handbook. (And no, there’s nothing about them building toys.) There’s nothing terribly shocking to those of us who have been following all the 4e previews: there’s no penalty to stats anymore, just bonuses, […]

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