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Bedtime Adventures: May-Gee’s Big Test, Part 2

September 14, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty concludes the Bedside story he and his daughter Rory created. A story about a young teenaged magician named May-Gee, a boy and the power of music and linked magic.

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Bedtime roleplaying, collaborative storytelling, gaming with children, Gaming with Kids, story games, Storytelling

Bedtime Adventures: May-Gee’s Big Test, Part 1

September 12, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty goes back to basics and shares the first part of an bedtime interactive story he created with his daughter.

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Bedtime roleplaying, collaborative storytelling, gaming with children, Gaming with Kids, story games, Storytelling

The World of Exercising Experiment: The Mantearing

April 2, 2011 by The Chatty DM

This is a post about being a geek parent, losing weight and making a game out of it all… it’s closer to Jane MacGonical’s gaming theory than anything RPG related.  But if you are a gamer parent and face (potential) obesity problems, this may be of interest to you. Last fall I was faced with a […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits Tagged With: dance dance revolution, Exercise, Gamer Parent, gaming with children, Gaming with Kids, Just Dance, wii, world of warcraft

Chatty’s 800th: Missed Opportunities and Future Projects

May 5, 2010 by The Chatty DM

In this, my 800th post, I take a hard look at Wizards of the Coast’s Heroes of Hesiod, and its missed opportunity to tap into the tremendous potential of helping parents introduce kids to roleplaying. And I put my money where my mouth is . . .

Filed Under: blogging, Freelance Writing, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: d&d 4e, gaming with children, Gaming with Kids, Heroes of Hesiod

Nico and Rory’s Quest: Meeting the Ice Titan

April 2, 2010 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty starts a promising Sword and Wizardy adventure with both his kids. Includes Titans, Druids, Badgers, Horseshoes and jobless super heroes.

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: gaming with children, Gaming with Kids, Nico and Rory, swords & wizardry

Lost Badgers and Kid Guards

April 1, 2010 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty DM comes out of the Full-Spectrum gaming closet and announces great news for Burning Wheel/Mouse Guard fans.

Filed Under: Freelance Writing, Humor, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Burning Wheel, Freelance Writing, Gaming with Kids, Humor

Nico’s Lego RPG: Assault on the Crystal King’s Cave, Part 2

December 30, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. Cave of the Crystal Kings I set up the second and final encounter of our little game by piling books and boxes to create a ‘throne’ for the Crystal King. Chatty: All right,  the king awaits your arrival. Nico: Oh Dad, wait, I’ve got these gems in the Rock Wrecker. Chatty: […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: gaming with children, Gaming with Kids, Lego RPG

Nico’s Lego RPG: Assault on the Crystal King’s Cave, Part 1

December 29, 2009 by The Chatty DM

I was thinking how long it had been since I played a post-worthy RPG session with my soon-to-be 8 years old son Nico.  A few weeks ago, I made him a Swords and Wizardry PC and we started doing a random dungeon crawl but I made the bad decision of using the 1e DMG dungeon […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: gaming with children, Gaming with Kids, Lego RPG

Tales from Draconis, Part 1

October 19, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Draconis is an annual Gaming Convention held in Montreal.  Run by a group of dedicated gamers, the con attracts a little less than 100 people to play mostly RPGs, some board/card games and attend seminars.  Montreal is a very Indie-friendly city and this year the con goers were served with some top notch guest such […]

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

Roleplaying games as a teaching tool

September 14, 2009 by guest

Hi, my name is Michael Wolf, author of Stargazer’s World. Some time ago, Barb, a homeschooling mom from California contacted me. She had read about my background in physics and asked me if I ever had ever thought about combining D&D and science. For some time she has paid DMs with backgrounds in different scientific […]

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

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