This is a second guest post by reader Kitsune. With the recent debate surrounding the Rule of Cool and Critical Hits’ take on the Rule of C4, I thought this would be a good time to post Kitsune’s experimental essay on GMing. No doubt this will set some people’s teeth on edge while others may […]
The Rule of Cool takes flak
Its interesting to note that several bloggers, especially of the old School variety (here and here) are taking a stance against the Rule of Cool as applied to Role Playing Games. Being one of the proponents of it, having written about it and made part of my success as a blogger around it, I feel […]
DM Chronicles: Session 6: When Fun Trumps Story, Part 2
See part one here. After some discussions, the party set out for Thunderspire Mountain. I described what Fizban (eleven Wizard) knew about it since we established that he had visited it before in his researches. That’s when I gave the players a rundown on the setting’s background: Old Minotaur city now called the Labyrinth, denizens […]
Chatty’s Question: Rekindling the flame
I think all GMs inevitably go through this, but I’m currently undergoing GM burnout. I just don’t feel like being at the head of the table anymore. Don’t worry, I’m still very much a Chatty DM… This is not the first time it happened to me. Its just that I need to recharge my batteries. […]
Afterschool Trope Special: Fill Up the Nighmare Mobile
What, two Trope posts in the same week? Why not? It’s been ages since I wrote any of them, and this is Halloween after all. With a satisfying ‘thunk’ Tragak the barbarian sheared the Orc Shaman’s head, sending it flying in the room’s dank, dark corner. As he was looting the body, he failed to […]
Afterschool Trope Post: Holy Super Heroic Fantasy Batman!
This month, I am the custodian of the RPGbloggers Monthly Carnival which is about Super Heroes. I thought it would be a perfect occasion to do a new Trope post about mixing some Super Heroes in my D&D Kool Aid! Trope: A narrative shortcut taken in a story that the audience will recognize and have […]
Of Fluff Kobolds and Geek Interviews
Those who have followed my antics for a long time know of my ‘fued’ with the master of settings and fluff known as Wolfgang Baur. The rules-crazy overlord in me as long since surrendered to his way of thinking where atmosphere, strong characterization and all around story goodness enhances a system’s rules. Wolfgang now pilots […]
Blog Carnival: Super Heroes in RPGs
The RPG Blog Carnival‘s idea started with Johnathan of The Core Mechanic (Although Geek’s Dream Girl used to do it too): Initial Idea (Subject: Resurrection) Roundup Then Donny the DM took up the torch This is Homebrew Roundup This month I offered to take up the torch and reinforce a nascent RPG blogging meme that […]
The Life of a Suburban Overlord
Update: I went ahead and created a website for the webcomic. You can find it here. I will update it M-W-F until I grow tired of it or something… My friend Pierre bought himself a iPhone 3G, installed a Comic Book app on it and started posting possibly the first Twitter Webcomic. (He’s going to […]
Chatty’s Monthly Tips : Intro to Tropes
I have a monthly column on Johnn Four’s Roleplaying tips newsletter. This month, I adapted the material I wrote in our Gen Con 2008 GM-FU seminar to introduce his readers to the concept of tropes. Long time readers will notice that its a re-edition of some of my earlier posts. I’m re-posting it here because […]
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