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Writing Contest: Reap What You Sew

May 24, 2012 by The Chatty DM

In the footsteps of my flash fiction of last week, my friend Leah teamed up with author Joseph Devon to host a writing contest… about sewing. Can you take this seemingly harmless craft and use it as a story’s climactic scene? Show us what you can do!

Filed Under: Freelance Writing, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: contest, flash fiction, Joseph Devon, Sewing, Writing

Review: “Legend of the 5 Rings” 4th Edition RPG

November 24, 2010 by Bartoneus

I discovered Legend of the Five Rings several years ago, but in the past I have never had a chance to play the RPG system itself and instead have ended up playing Oriental Adventure version of D&D or other systems with strong Asian influences. That’s why I’m very thankful that Alderac Entertainment Group has provided us with the 4th Edition of the Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game core book, which is right off the bat one of the most beautiful RPG books I’ve ever seen. Plus a contest to win a copy of the L5R core book!

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, 4th Edition, contest, core book, giveaway, L5R, Legend of the 5 Rings, Legend of the Five Rings, Reviews, roleplaying game, Roleplaying Games

CONTEST: Want To Go To GenCon/Can’t Go To GenCon

July 16, 2010 by Dave

For those of you without tickets to GenCon, whether because you haven’t bought them but could go or because you can’t go at all, we offer the following multi-part contest. Choose the one that best fits your situation: I Want A Ticket To Go To GenCon, I Can’t Go To GenCon, I Have A Ticket And I’m Going To GenCon.

Filed Under: News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: contest, gencon

Twitterquest Winners Announced

May 28, 2010 by Dave

The judges have been deliberated and we have returned with our picks for the winners in our Twitterquest contest, where contestants entered via comments, our Facebook group, and to our Twitter account, submitting their 127 word or fewer adventure pitches.

Filed Under: News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: contest, twitterquest

Inq. of the Week: Prizes and Treasures?

April 27, 2010 by Bartoneus

This week we are not posting a new poll as part of the Inquisition, instead we are looking to solve a very terrible problem which Dave and I now have. You see…we simply have too much stuff that we want to give away on this fancy-schmancy website and we aren’t entirely sure how to do it!

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week Tagged With: contest, doctor who, Inquisition of the Week, Newest Critical Hits, prizes

#AboutmyPC: Contest Results

September 16, 2009 by The Chatty DM

One month ago, I launched a contest over Twitter called #aboutmyPC where I invited people to submit a description of their character in 130 characters or less (the #aboutmyPC tag taking 10 characters). Over 350 entries were sent for that contest so it was a huge success. My criteria for the contest were pretty simple. […]

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

Contest: Yes! Please tell me about your PC…on Twitter

August 11, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Regular readers will know that I have a thing for Twitter. If you’ve never heard of it, it allows you to post micro posts of maximum 140 characters in length.  It also allows you to follow specific twitter accounts, like mine here, to see what people you care about are saying. Well a few weeks […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: About my PC, contest

One Page Dungeon Winners!

July 1, 2009 by The Chatty DM

What started as a crazy idea in the last few weeks of Winter has finally come to its conclusion. Since late May a panel of 6 judges: Chgowiz, Dave: the Game, Sham, Amityville Mike, Alex Schroeder and myself have slogged through 112 entries and we’ve finally arrived with the final results. If you are curious […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: contest, one page dungeon

One Page Dungeon Contest Updates

June 26, 2009 by The Chatty DM

I’m glad to report that judging the entries for the One Page Dungeon contest has been completed last night! Chgowiz and I will be announcing the 3 grand winners and a bunch of Category winners on Wednesday July 1st. Don’t miss it! Then, a few weeks later we’ll publish the entries as we promised to […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: contest, one page dungeon

The Compiled List of One Page Dungeon Entries

May 25, 2009 by The Chatty DM

I know that many of you have clamored to see all the entries for the awesomely popular One-Page Dungeon Contest that concluded last week. However, before we can even think of publishing them (and more importantly how and how many), we need to go through each and every entry and judge them. However, I thought […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: contest, one page dungeon

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