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The Brooch of Hunting, Design Postmortem.

December 4, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Did you see Dungeonmastering’s Top 50 RPG sites yet? It’s a good roundup of many of the great RPG-related sites out there. Of course the fact that I’m in 4th place has absolutely nothing to do with me pimping it right now. No Siree. Absolutely not! It never crossed my mind! As mentioned before, I […]

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

Mini-Crunch: Chatty's Top D&D Crunch books!

November 27, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Yeah I know that making lists can be considered bad form by some, but they do serve a purpose. They are perfect for a 500 word Mini-post!!! (Italics included) Oh and if I can get 2 comments on this we hit the 800 comments mark! With D&D 3.5 nearing the end of its useful shelf-life, […]

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The Overlord's bid for Superstar status!

November 23, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Man, the suspense is killing me! When I first learned about Paizo’s American Idol-inspired RPG Superstar contest, I was intrigued but not that interested. While I have a certain knack for words and things D&D as well as non-professional experience in both department, being a RPG designer/writer was never seriously on my radar (As mentioned […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Crunch, DMing, fluff

Micro-Crunch: I knew Mike Mearls was a Crunch Overlord!

November 21, 2007 by The Chatty DM

As you may know, Martin Rayla of Treasure Table is taking a well deserved month off from writing his daily blog. He’s now slaving away doing NaNoWriMo, writing about whatever it is DMs write about (I suspect Ninjas and Pirates, but that’s just me). During that time he’s reposting some of his best stuff from […]

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Mini-Crunch: The Golem's Magical Immunities

November 15, 2007 by The Chatty DM

When Grandaddy Gygax created the various types of Golem (borrowed from Jewish folklore I believe… Yup that’s right), I think he was aiming at a Monster that would be hard to deal with at High Level and that would allow Fighters and other non-spell casters a chance to shine with their +3 weapons. That concept […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Crunch, mini-post

Tweaking Classes for Cooler Characters: The Class Mish-Mash Challenge, Part 2

November 5, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Now this is one lengthy crunchy post, I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did writing it. Although I must admit that I’ve never worked so hard for a role playing game before. Monte, Wolfgang and all game designers, developers and writers out there, you have my utmost and eternal respect! Part 1 […]

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Tweaking Classes for Cooler Characters: The Class Mish-Mash Challenge, Part 1

November 4, 2007 by The Chatty DM

One of the core premises of our current campaign is “Play the character you want to play”. As this is possibly our last D&D 3.5 game, we agreed that everyone would play along these lines, irrespective of party roles … if there was to be no rogues or clerics, so be it, a large part […]

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Mining Tropes for RPG nuggets: Halloween Special!

October 31, 2007 by The Chatty DM

This is a boring, repeating preface nobody reads anymore. It links to stuff I wrote some time ago that has a vague thematic link to what I’m about to write here… Actually this is a Very D&D specific Trope post. It features a lot of Crunchy bits… like the candy I’m eating right now…The kids […]

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

Tweaking Classes for Cooler Characters, Parts Deux

October 28, 2007 by The Chatty DM

As I was gearing up for preparing this week’s game, I reviewed the player’s ‘satisfaction levels’ with their characters. By tackling this early this week, I might be able to address any issues before Friday’s game. For those who follow the antics of my gaming group (either from my logs or from a Yan’s) you […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Crunch, DMing, rule of cool

Cry Crunch and lets slit the Fluff off War!

October 18, 2007 by The Chatty DM

I see that after a bit less than 24 hours of polling, my pain-med induced Overlord Crunch of Madness posts aren’t that popular. I still need to see this one to the end though. I’m therefore giving this post a double mandate: Finish off what I started against my Nemesis and giving you a few […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Crunch, fluff, Tropes

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