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Mining Tropes for RPG nuggets: Grab a can of Evil

October 24, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: The one and only PM! This is part of a continuing series of articles that tackles the concepts of tropes and how they can be applied by a DM/GM to improve their favorite Role-Playing game adventures. It is heavily inspired by the sheer goodness of the TV Tropes Wiki.Ahhhh Evil, evil, evil… Misunderstood, […]

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

Adventure Prep, Special Session: Introducing Newbies to D&D

October 23, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Since PM posted his first ‘Perspective‘ post yesterday, I thought it was the perfect timing for posting this Adventure Prep/Response to PM’s post Next Friday, PM has agreed to get a few friends together and allow me to DM an introductory D&D game. I feel honored to be entrusted a mission so many of us […]

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: DMing, fluff

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

Enter my Nemesis: Wolfgang Baur!

October 11, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: Once again, RPGnet’s Forum. To arms! My Fluff Nemesis, Master Wolfgang Baur, has found out about my nefarious plans to topple his empire of Fluff and has already started to maneuver to foil my mad Crunchy schemes! Aside: Well, to be honest, I did tell him about the Nemesis thing, how fun is […]

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

Mining Tropes for RPG nuggets: …and Cut!

October 10, 2007 by The Chatty DM

This is part of a series of articles that tackles the concepts of tropes and how they can be applied by a DM/GM to improve their favorite Role-Playing game adventures. It is heavily inspired by the sheer goodness of the TV Tropes Wiki. Description: a DM’s main weapon and canvas to paint the world in […]

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

Fluff done right: Paizo's Burnt Offering review (spoiler free)

October 9, 2007 by The Chatty DM

I finished reading the 1st issue of Paizo’s Pathfinder #1 and I maintain my 1st impression that it’s one of the best D&D compatible products I’ve seen in a long time (they can’t say it but I can). The 1st adventure, called Burnt Offering, takes characters from level 1 to level 4 (or more) and […]

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

Mining Tropes for RPG nuggets: Glowing Fluff Elemental

October 4, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: RPGnet’s Forums. This is part of a series of articles that tackles the concepts of tropes and how they can be applied by a DM/GM to improve their favorite Role-Playing game adventures. It is heavily inspired by the sheer goodness of the TV Tropes Wiki. Quite a number of tropes exist solely because […]

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

Big Fluff, Small Crunch

October 1, 2007 by The Chatty DM

I’m still working on the Big Eyes, Small Mouth-Pokemon game for my 5 year-old son. I also read Dante’s and Martin’s excellent post on Improvising. I’m taking notes here! I bought 2 starters of The Pokemon Trading figure Game. My son whips my butt on a consistent basis and he loves those spinning figurines. I […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: DMing, fluff, Gaming with Kids

Fluff done right: Paizo's Pathfinder first impressions

September 28, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Like a lot of Dungeon magazine subscribers, it’s with shock and apprehension that I learned about WotC’s revocation of the Dungeon and Dragon magazine licenses. For those who don’t know yet, Paizo, the publisher of the two magazines, created a new D&D 3.5 compatible adventure magazine (they just don’t say it out loud) called Pathfinder […]

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

Let's sweeten all that Crunch with some Sweet20

September 26, 2007 by The Chatty DM

Image Source: Chatty DM’s game room It’s no secret, since the seventies, D&D has arguably been mostly about two things: Kill Stuff Take their loot A lot of people were content with that (and still are). I have been for a long time. However, as I played D&D 3.0, and later 3.5, I realized that […]

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

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