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DM Chronicles, Session 1: Harsh Beginnings

August 26, 2007 by The Chatty DM

This series will be a DM-centric log of my current D&D campaign, it will not be an attempt at telling a story so much as being a ‘lessons learned’ tool for me to reflect on what was good and what wasn’t so good in the last session. It will be mostly about game mechanics, design […]

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

Interplannar adventures

August 24, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Warning, Spoilers for Monte Cook’s Ptolus d20 setting. Safe for my players to read. I’ve been wishing to do a multiplanar campaign for a long time. A D&D 2nds edition was the period I had left that game for the crunchiness and detail of Gurps. So I missed out on Planescape, having touched it only […]

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

Game Carnival (If Only It Had Funnel Cake)

August 22, 2007 by Dave

Yehuda has posted the newest Game Carnival, which includes two of my Critical Threat articles. It also contains a number of other articles about games, from a few theory articles to some video game reviews. I haven’t gone through all of them yet, but already I’m digging an article by Corvus that I missed when […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Critical Bits, Reviews, Roleplaying Games, Video Games

Recent DMing stuff from the Bloggoshere

August 22, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Instead of writing new DMstuff, why not link to interesting things other people have to say on the subject of DMing? Danny (Bartoneous) from Critical-hits talks about how to end a gaming session. I agree that Cliffhangers are a great way to end a D&D gaming night. I’ll further add* that Cliffhangers are sometimes hard […]

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

How to End an Adventure

August 22, 2007 by Bartoneus

This just came up on Saturday evening, while talking to Dave about how he ended his latest D&D 3.5 adventure. Typically when you’re playing things will run long, whether or not you plan to get through your whole adventure or not, it’s still going to run long. When you’re young, this isn’t so bad and […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Roleplaying Games

YouTube of the Week: 4dventure!

August 21, 2007 by Dave

The “teaser” shown at GenCon about the different editions of D&D.

Filed Under: Roleplaying Games, YouTube Tuesday

Inquisition of the Week: D&D 4e Reaction

August 20, 2007 by Dave

Last week, we presented the nominations for Best YouTube of the Year, and had you select your favorites. And the winner is… COLLEGE SAGA! Congratulations to Mark Leung for creating such an awesome video and sharing it with the world. Second place went to the hilarious and oft-quoted 300 Rated PG. To those of you […]

Filed Under: Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games

A campaign's 1st session

August 18, 2007 by The Chatty DM

It’s getting nearer. We should be starting our new (last?) D&D 3.5 campaign next Friday night. Now one of the 5 players as already said he’d be missing, I so hope that no one else will be missing as I designed the 1st session based on the strength of the whole party. It’s not a […]

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

The Case for Fourth Edition

August 17, 2007 by Dave

Wizards of the Coast has gone and done it. They’ve announced that Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition will be released mid-year 2008. And I’m totally pumped. Marketing and digital stuff aside, looking through what the announcements are consisting of, it’s clear to me that Wizards is concerned about game design. And not just about fixing […]

Filed Under: Critical Threats, Editorial, Roleplaying Games

D&D 4th Edition

August 17, 2007 by The Chatty DM

There, they’ve finally done it. D&D 4th edition comes out next year (in May). I’m really angry because I bought a shitload of D&D 3.0/3.5 books (I mean I have a whole bookcase full of them) and I know that most mechanics in them will become useless. I’m not saying Wizards is evil and money […]

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

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