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Preview & Review: “Primal Power”

October 18, 2009 by Bartoneus

Late last week, with a copy of Primal Power in hand, I decided to give people a chance to preview the book by asking questions that I would answer on Twitter as well as at our page on Facebook. Below I’ll share most of the questions and answers from those, but first I’d like to offer a quick review of the book.

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, 4th Edition, D&D, dnd, Dungeons and Dragons, preview, primal power, Reviews, Roleplaying Games, roleplaying games

Draconis Day#1: Swords & Wizardry

October 17, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Sorry I couldn’t manage to do 5 Capsule Review, Con prep took a little longer than expected. Last night’s game of S&W was as awesome, hilarious and fun as I expected it to be.  I ran Chgowiz’s exceedingly well designed adventure from the Quick-Start kit.  Instead of giving you the play by play, I’ll repost […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

Leveling Up As An Inexperienced DM

October 15, 2009 by Bartoneus

I still consider myself an inexperienced DM. the 4th Edition campaign that I’m currently running has just passed twenty adventures and is the longest campaign I’ve ever run. Hell, it was the longest game I’ve ever run when it hit ten adventures back in May.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: campaign, D&D, DMing, dnd, dungeon master, dungeon mastering, Dungeons and Dragons, newbie dm, roleplaying games, Roleplaying Games

Statement from Wizards of the Coast Regarding Fansite Toolkit

October 15, 2009 by Dave

Months back, Wizards of the Coast released their “Fansite Toolkit”, essentially a package of images that could be used for bloggers and similar in exchange for agreeing to, well, a lot of terms about citations, trademarks, and usage. The release raised a lot of questions among the potential audience for it (bloggers) and so we emailed Wizards of the Coast to get some clarification. They provided us two short answers, which don’t cover everything, but do provide some information.

Filed Under: News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, fan site, GSL, wotc

Inq. of the Week: Gaming Women

October 12, 2009 by Dave

Conventional wisdom and surveys show that women are in the minority among gaming groups of all kinds, but I think the ratio is starting to shift. We touched on the issue almost three years ago (to a bit of controversy) but I’d like to pose a slightly less loaded question…

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games, Video Games Tagged With: gender, women

Capsule Review Week: Swords & Wizardry

October 12, 2009 by The Chatty DM

As introduced here, I will post mini-reviews of RPGs and MMORPGs during the whole week while I prepare for Draconis, my local gaming convention. Swords & Wizardry What it is A clone of the original, 1974 version of Dungeons & Dragons (often referred to as 0th edition).  It includes all the non-proprietary elements of the […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Sword and Wizardry, Theme week

Capsule Review Week: Intro and DDO Eberron unlimited

October 12, 2009 by The Chatty DM

I’ll be spending most of the coming week preparing for Montreal’s Draconis gaming convention (where I’ll host a Dungeon Reality Show game, 2 Swords and Wizardry games and both a French and English Seminar on DMing 4e). While I initially thought I’d take the week off from Blogging, my evil backstabbing mastermind lieutenant PM mentioned […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games

4th Power Project: Classes, Part 3 (Other Powers)

October 9, 2009 by Dave

The beginnings of some at-will powers were posted last week– not all of them by any means, but I figured it was a start. Now as I mentioned then, at-will powers should come up fairly often, and be the stand-bys. The other powers are Per Scene (formerly Per Encounter) and Per Session (formerly Per Day.) […]

Filed Under: Critical Threats, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th power, 4th power project, classes, d20 modern, game design, powers

Our Ladies of Sorrow: Modern Gaming, Scary Women

October 9, 2009 by Dave

I’m always on the lookout for solid modern adventures. But many of them fall into the more cinematic style where everyone is an action hero, spy, or both, thus making the subset of adventures I’m looking for even smaller. That’s why I was happy to be provided with a review copy of Our Ladies of Sorrow, a new adventure collection for Call of Cthulhu RPG by Miskatonic River Press.

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: call of cthulhu, horror, modern

Friday Chat (Early edition): Are you a Backseat GM?

October 8, 2009 by The Chatty DM

I’m posting this early since I will have limited net access tomorrow. On Friday night, I get to lay aside my Dungeon Master’s Screen, maps, stack of books and other DM paraphernalia to grab a lone piece of paper, one rule book, a set of dice, a pencil and a mini.  I get to play […]

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

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