This is a continuing series of short posts on Paizo’s Pathfinder adventure path magazine. The image is Copyright 2007 Paizo Publishings I got issue #3 of this amazing OGL compliant adventure series about 2 weeks ago. Time for another capsule review/preview. Issue number one was about Crazy Gobbo’s and an insane Assinar. Issue number #2 […]
Mini-Links: Evil Editions and Vicious Superstar Scandinavian Clambake!
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 […]
Mini-Crunch: Chatty's Top D&D Crunch books!
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, […]
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, […]
Micro-Crunch: I knew Mike Mearls was a Crunch Overlord!
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 […]
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 […]
Mini-Crunch: The Golem's Magical Immunities
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 […]
Mini-Fluff: The DM's Fingerprint
I have started reading David Eddings again (and I just learned from a French reference at the bottom that his wife and co-author died shortly after Robert Jordan… this is sad) and it brought back a meta-literature discussion I have had in the last few years. I have read a lot of novels, a few […]
Mini-Posts: New Features for busy days
I’m currently sicker than I have been in many years. I have the constitution of an Ox and a cold is usually only a 24-48 hour thing, but I caught one of those once-per-5 years bug that slays me. Now I’m stuck home for the second day and it sucks because I have trouble concentrating […]
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