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Campaign/Adventure Prep: 4th Edition Treasure Hunters!

August 27, 2008 by The Chatty DM

My gaming group usually takes off for the summer. We put our campaign on hiatus because of vacations, family quality time and yard work. While we gamed some (Magic:The Addiction, one shot RPG games, etc) this summer was rather dry. Next Friday is the long awaited start of our new gaming season and both my […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Chatty's 2008-2009 campaign, Tropes

Gen Con 2008, Lessons Learned

August 20, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I started Gen Con  2008 with some doubts about my ability to go up to designers and say hi. I’m an extroverted, exceedingly chatty person.. but when I’m not introduced to someone, I clamp up real good. Except, something happened to me somewhere during the second day. Probably during the 126 players chaosfest that was […]

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

Afterschool TV Tropes Special: Location. Location? Location!

August 10, 2008 by Dave

Dave Chalker, AKA Dave The Game here (from that other website) (and that other, other website) filling in for the Chatty One while he does whatever it is Canadians do on vacation. I decided to aim high. Sure, I could have done a post about RPG blogging, on how to snare your friends into writing […]

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

Steampunk Star Wars RPG… How cool would it be?

April 15, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I love the concept of Steampunk Star Wars, I really do. It blends two styles that I really love: Space Opera and Jules Vernes’ Victorian setting. As I already talked about, blending two cool things together can result in an explosion of cool. I mean, just look at the Spork! (Credit: Graham) For instance, look […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: rule of cool, Steampunk Star Wars, Tropes

Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: The Quest Improbable

April 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

It’s been too long I know. After having done more that 20 Trope related posts, it becomes kind of daunting to try to produce one that won’t be a re-hash of a previous one (or, you know, bad!). As I was losing time on the TV Tropes wiki looking for some more character specific trope […]

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

Adventure Prep: Hide in Shadows

April 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I sat down yesterday to prep and I’m a bit out of ideas for custom scenes and hacking ideas for the adventure we’re playing (Expedition to the Demonweb Pits). I therefore decided to play the next session almost directly from the adventure and I set out to read it once again to familiarize myself with […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Tropes

Chatty’s Mailbox: Of Terrain, Random Generation and Villains

April 8, 2008 by The Chatty DM

A few weeks ago, I got a nice email from a reader, full of praise and constructive feedback (I love those!) and in the mail there were a few questions. I thought I’d respond to it in post form and maybe encourage people to send more questions at chattydm@chattydm.net. If it catches on, it may […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Chatty's Mailbox, Tropes

House Cleaning

April 8, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m enjoying my time off by mostly lounging around and taking it easy. I am also tinkering with the blog a bit to make it more useful for readers. That’s why I moved the Recent Comments to the top of the primary sidebar. I’m also finding that my blogroll is stretching beyond what I’d like […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Blogging about Blogging, Tropes

Chatty on 4e: Retro-Stupid vs… well Retro-Stupid

April 6, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This is the second in an series of articles where I tackle 2 short subjects on 4e from a DM’s perspective and ask for your thoughts. The 1st one can be found here. While I was reading stuff on D&D 4e on the various blogs, news sites and the Worlds and Monsters book (which I […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Tropes

Adventure Prep: My Rewind button

March 26, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This week, my actual prepping work is rather light. Since all 6 players are available (What are the odds?) we have to move the game out of my place. I can only accommodate 5 in my gaming den. That means I’ll have to pack my stuff to go to Math’s on Friday evening. It also […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Tropes

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