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Bedtime Adventures: May-Gee’s Big Test, Part 2

September 14, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty concludes the Bedside story he and his daughter Rory created. A story about a young teenaged magician named May-Gee, a boy and the power of music and linked magic.

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Bedtime roleplaying, collaborative storytelling, gaming with children, Gaming with Kids, story games, Storytelling

Bedtime Adventures: May-Gee’s Big Test, Part 1

September 12, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty goes back to basics and shares the first part of an bedtime interactive story he created with his daughter.

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Bedtime roleplaying, collaborative storytelling, gaming with children, Gaming with Kids, story games, Storytelling

Splitting Shadows

May 24, 2011 by Vanir

This past week, I decided to pretend I was J.J. Abrams in the final season of Lost and concocted a reason for all the mysterious events and shadowy nether-business in my campaign. Since the PCs were trapped in some horrifyingly evil prison demiplane, I decided an appropriately evil thing should be trying to make everything worse. But I was still stuck. Then reality splintered all over the place. It takes a really good vacuum to get reality out of a carpet.

Filed Under: Dire Flailings, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: bogeyman, boogeyman, collaborative storytelling, dreams, egon spengler, inception, nightmares, real ghostbusters, split party

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