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Chatty’s Mailbox: Helping out a New DM

March 17, 2009 by The Chatty DM

This morning I had the pleasure to get an email from a reader asking me a few questions to help him out in his D&D 4e DMing.  As usual, I love doing that and it creates instant fresh content of interest for other readers in a similar situation.  Win/win says I. Let’s dive into it […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Chatty's Mailbox, D&D for Newbies, DMing, Tropes

DM Chronicles: The legend of the Broken Dice, Session 2, Part 2

February 20, 2008 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. Before getting into the actual dungeon crawl, as pointed out by Yan in the comments yesterday, I realized that PM was the only PC moving at a speed of 4 squares (20′). He was wearing Scale Mail, which has the same AC bonus as a Chain Shirt, only cheaper and bulkier. […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: D&D for Newbies, pathfinder, Teaching RPGs

DM Chronicles: The legend of the Broken Dice, Session 2, Part 1

February 19, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Way back in October, I played a one shot adventure using Paizo’s Pathfinder #1, Burnt Offering. I wrote the session’s log here. We reconvened last Sunday for another session in a day long geekfest of Dim Sum, Anime and D&D. So on Sunday Morning we arrived at PM’s palace of Cats (he has 2) in […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: D&D for Newbies, pathfinder, Teaching RPGs

Adventure Prep: The Newbie group, an Encore

February 15, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Back in late October I posted an adventure prep article about doing a Demo D&D game for a group mostly made of D&D newbies based on Paizo’s Pathfinder #1 : Burnt Offering. The game was very entertaining, featuring crazy stupid goblins and some of the worse dice-craft I had ever seen in a game. A […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: D&D for Newbies, pathfinder

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