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Chatty’s Out of the Box #003: Lean and Green!

February 29, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Here’s another comic! This time with some Quality Control by my good friend PM. I decided to leave our Plastic Pirate to his interview and explore new characters. The Green Slaad is too ridiculous a figurine not to make him part of the comic. This joke came to me this morning and it needed to […]

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Chatty’s Out of the Box #002 : Linear Thinking.

February 24, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Here’s another stab at this Webcomic thing. Click on image to see full comic (and click again if it can be zoomed further). I had a thousand ideas for the second one all to be crammed in 6 panels. Then I realized that pacing can be different in a comic and that my many gags […]

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Chatty's Out of the Box #001 : Discriminating Taste!

February 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I should have spent the evening writing my DM log, I know, but the Webcomic bug came back and bit me hard. So I got myself a rightfully owned copy of Comic Book Creator 2 and I started experimenting a bit more. (Once more with Graham’s technical expertise and critical eye). Since my blog was […]

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Chatty’s Out of the Box #001 : Discriminating Taste!

February 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I should have spent the evening writing my DM log, I know, but the Webcomic bug came back and bit me hard. So I got myself a rightfully owned copy of Comic Book Creator 2 and I started experimenting a bit more. (Once more with Graham’s technical expertise and critical eye). Since my blog was […]

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Chatty’s Review: Alex Robinson Lower Region's

February 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

A few weeks ago, I got an email from a Leigh Walton from Top shelf productions saying they were sending me a copy of a Sword & Sorcery Graphic Novel by artist Alex Robinson ‘for my consideration’. I assume this is a nice way to say “feel free to review it on your blog”. Once […]

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Chatty’s Review: Alex Robinson Lower Region’s

February 3, 2008 by The Chatty DM

A few weeks ago, I got an email from a Leigh Walton from Top shelf productions saying they were sending me a copy of a Sword & Sorcery Graphic Novel by artist Alex Robinson ‘for my consideration’. I assume this is a nice way to say “feel free to review it on your blog”. Once […]

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Magic Online III Beta.

January 31, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m too tired to write a post tonight so I’m sharing a little Magic the Gathering goodness to those who would like to play for free (I think you need to have a Magic Online 2,5 account though). Magic Online players, We’re hoping that you, along with thousands of other MOL players across the globe […]

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Chatty's Out of the Box #000.1

January 25, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m currently fooling around with the idea of creating a Photo webcomic… not seriously, I have no time for that… but the idea is slowly eating whatever’s left of my brain. So I downloaded the Comic Book Creator demo and started playing with it. Here’s what I came up with… I had to go through […]

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I might be in the wrong buisness here…

January 20, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Yup… as predictable as a specialist role player’s choice of character, this trimester’s Magic the Gathering Pre-release tournament was upon us this weekend. I originally started writing this at 7h00 am this morning before going to the tournament, but my wife ran out of coffee. I therefore put on my husband Superhero suit and went […]

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Mini-Fluff'N'Crunch: Requiem for my Bronze Friend

January 15, 2008 by The Chatty DM

That perfidious and oh so diabolical Yax has been reading all those “WotC presents” books and, through his Red Dragon comic-relief Minion Expy, has announced that our cherished Wizards on the Coast are revamping the dragons. One thing that broke my heart a bit (the cynics will say that WotC has ripped out theirs long […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Uncategorized Tagged With: Crunch, fluff, mini-post, Tropes

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