Ahhh, the Echo Chamber: taking other people’s stuff and talking about it on your site. I haven’t done one of those in some time, so here’s a short post on stuff I found cool lately. Evil in Mythic Scandinavia Yeah, Beowulf is out and I must say that Grendel’s mom is quite the MILTFAW (…to […]
Mini-Fluff: Chatty's Top Fluff sources!
What better way to complete this week’s unofficial ‘become a DM’ theme and sandwich PM’s most excellent post with yet another Top 5 list? In order to balance my crunchy Ying with some fluffy Yang here’s a few words on my top Fluff books and boxed sets. Now since I’m not much of a fluff […]
PWW: The Apprentice Half-Orc DM
Here’s the time for another Perspective on Weekend Wizards post by PM. This week our boy has started to contemplate something that may very well break his spirit and steal his soul. Enjoy! In my previous post, my inner closet half-orc was last seen running in the hills and howling at the moon after enjoying […]
Adventure Prep: When Fun and Logic collide…
Woot! It’s game week again! Since this week’s game is the 3rd session in and around a Tomb dungeon, and since the adventure is pretty much prepped since last week, I was thinking of skipping this week’s prep article in order to focus on the campaign’s next chapter (Where Planescape meets Ptolus). But then I […]
The Overlord's bid for Superstar status!
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 […]
Mini-Trope: The Bad, The Killer and the Evil.
So far I have been doing a lot of posts about DMing tropes, but what about tropes on DMing? (This post is very satirical. If anyone is offended by this… well let’s just say I’d rather not play in your game…) When you ask RPG-savvy people to describe a cliché (or a trope) about DMs, […]
DM Chronicles, Session 6: Perfectly Paced Action Crunch! (Part 2)
Image Source: Monster Manual IV, Wizards of the Coast, Artist: Jim Nelson In which ChattyDM’s players find all kinds of trouble and manage to always come out on top. See part 1 here. The players entered deeper in the tomb’s second level, finding themselves in a large “T” shaped room. It featured 2 more stone-doors-with-levers […]
DM Chronicles, Session 6: Perfectly Paced Action Crunch! (Part 1)
Previously in Phil’s game: The heroes struck a deal with the Keepers of the Veil to investigate where the plant-like humanoids, created by the drug Green Welcome, were headed in Ptolus’ Necropolis. Said plant-like beings, called Children of Sehan, were tracked to an ancient funeral mound and engaged. Two were slain, diffcultly, one remains, inside […]
Adventure Prep: My Recent Time Management Shortcuts
Now that I made a point about the value of our player’s free time, I must confess that I don’t have that more free time than them. Ronin and Ve4grm have made good argument that the DM’s fun factor must also be taken into account and does not want to waste his/her own free time […]
The special challenge of DMing for adult gamers
There is quite an interesting discussion going on over the Okay…your Turn RPG forums (a very classy, mostly D&D/Iron Heroes/Arcana Evolved/ Ptolus gaming forum) about the Dungeon Masters having become the Dungeon Servants. This discussion brought me additional insights about a subject that has been brewing in my mind for some time now. You see, […]
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