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Chatty in Washington: Highlights of DC Gameday

May 17, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty exits his blog silence to share the best tidbits of his Washington DC trip to attend a gaming con.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Blowback, dc gameday, Mouse Guard, Washington

Chatty’s PaxEast Highlights: 3 days of Fun Among Friends

March 15, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty miraculously fits his highlights of a spectacular convention in only one 1500 words post. A record some will say!

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Boston, fiasco, Gabe, games, gamma world, Jane MacGonigal, leverage, magic the gathering, Mouse Guard, Munckin, pax east 2011, Tycho

Mouseburning It: Hacking a Skill System, Small Press Style

February 18, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty finally shares part of what his small press pilgrimage taught him and describes his new method for dealing with skill checks in classic RPGs like D&D (easily adaptable to most other classic games too)

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Apocalypse World, Burning Empires, Burning Wheel, D&D, d&d 4e, d20, Failure, Failure is fun, Leverage RPG, Mouse Guard, Skill, Skill Challenge

Chatty’s New York Trip Highlights, Part 2: Queens is Burning

October 15, 2010 by The Chatty DM

In which, Chatty Phil wanders the street of Astoria, looking for Burning Con and a chance to play some truly engaging Burning Wheel scenarios.

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits Tagged With: Burning Con, Burning Wheel, convention report, Learn to Play, Mouse Guard, new york comic con, nycc

Mouse Guard Chronicles, Session 2, Players’ Turn: The Spurce Connection

July 28, 2010 by The Chatty DM

The successful but banged-up patrol hobbled back to Lockhaven to recuperate from their injuries under the ministrations of the Guard’s healers. On their way, they stumbled upon 2 surviving Scent thugs caught in the Flashflood and Jasper ran to their help, rescuing the Garrow the Merchant and the huge Thug otherwise known as The Big Cheese.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits Tagged With: Chatty's 2010 summer campaign, Mouse Guard

Mouse Guard Chronicles, Session 2, GM’s Turn: Scented Storms

July 26, 2010 by The Chatty DM

The Patrol left port Sumac with a shipping of Scent chemical with the firm intention of locating the breach in the northern border and sealing it up before more predators entered the territory. Before they could find it, they were waylaid by a group of thuggish mice who wanted to get their paws on their shipment of powder and learn the whereabout of other Scent-laying patrols.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Campaign Logs, Newest Critical Hits Tagged With: Chatty's 2010 summer campaign, Mouse Guard

Mouse Guard Chronicles, Session 1, Part 4: The Players’ Turn

July 22, 2010 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty concludes his telling of his 1st Summer 2010 Mouse Guard session. In this post, the players experiment with the very Indie concepts of Shared Narrative and setting their own scenes.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits Tagged With: Chatty's 2010 summer campaign, Mouse Guard

Mouse Guard Chronicles, Session 1, Part 3: The Unarmed Hero

July 20, 2010 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty continues his multi-part series detailing his 1st Summer 2010 Mouse Guard session where he tackles a combat conflict and describes the rest of the GM-controlled narrative before turning it over to the players in the next post.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits Tagged With: Chatty's 2010 summer campaign, Mouse Guard

Mouse Guard Chronicles, Session 1, Part 2: The Lost Patrol

July 18, 2010 by The Chatty DM

After we ordered and ate our evening meal I asked if they wanted to play a Mouse Guard session now that the PCs were made and that we’d had some time to take a break from char gen and do something else. All players were willing to start playing…

…So I actually had to prep an adventure, like right now!

Filed Under: Actual Play, Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits Tagged With: Chatty's 2010 summe, Mouse Guard

Mouse Guard Chronicles, Session 1, Part 1: Char Gen.

July 13, 2010 by The Chatty DM

On Canada Day, a small group of us convened for an all day gaming geekout to create characters and, time permitting, play a session with the intent to have a extend it into a short campaign if it struck the group’s fancy.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Chatty's 2010 summer campaign, Mouse Guard

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