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Roludothon 1 Report: The Sea patrol.

July 2, 2010 by The Chatty DM

Continuing his Roludothon convention report, Chatty relates his 1st Mouse Guard experience as a player.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: convention report, Mouse Guard, Roludothon

Origins 2010: “Game Design is Mind Control” Seminar

June 29, 2010 by Dave

During Origins 2010, I dropped by a packed seminar run by Luke Crane and Jared Sorensen. Luke Crane is the designer of Burning Wheel and Mouse Guard RPGs, of which we (mainly ChattyDM) have spoken of on many occasions. Jared Sorensen is the game designer behind a number of games including Action Castle and the […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Critical Threats, News, Roleplaying Games, Video Games Tagged With: action castle, Burning Wheel, game design, jared sorensen, luke crane, Mouse Guard, origins, Origins 2010, parsley

The Dungeon Master Guys, Episode 1

April 12, 2010 by Dungeon Master Guys

The very first episode of the Dungeon Master Guys focuses on adventure planning, creating a cast-of-heroes setup for your campaign, and using failures to make your games more interesting.

Filed Under: Dungeon Master Guys Podcast, Podcasts, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Adventure Prep, DMing tips, failures, hall of justice, Mouse Guard, PC switching, superfriends

Mouse Guard Diaries: Delivering the Mail, Part 4, Finale

December 23, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Player Turn: In the player turn, each player gets to spend a free ‘token’ called a ‘check’ to do one thing, of his own choosing, like  recovering from a negative condition, playing a scene to achieve an unmet goal or interact with the story in some way.  Players each get 1 free check.  They can […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Game Demo, Mouse Guard

Mouse Guard Diaries: Delivering the Mail, Part 3

December 22, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Fight at Raven’s Hollow With a failed Pathfinder’s check, I moved to the adventure’s first plot twist.  In a home brewed adventure, the GM would have had the choice of creating a plot twist or letting the PCs succeed but gain a negative condition liked ‘Angry, Sick, Injured’.  From my understanding, the GM is encouraged […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Game Demo, Mouse Guard

Mouse Guard Diaries: Delivering the Mail, Part 2

December 22, 2009 by The Chatty DM

The Players I had 4 players attending this Mouse Guard game: Yan: Legendary fiddler and king of crunch. Yan expects fast interaction with the game, be it Story or dice rolling.  Patience incarnate he is not. 🙂 Franky: Our groups most eager storyteller and explorer.  Give him a new setting and story hooks and he’ll […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Game Demo, Mouse Guard

City of the Overmind: Of Beholders and Mind Control, Part 2

September 22, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. House of the all seeing Eye As the PCs entered the administrative building of the re-education camp, I described how the first floor was deserted and was reminiscent of a U-store where the whole floor was separated in compartment where stuff could be stored.  Said stuff was mostly armor, weapons and […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Chatty's 2009-2010 Campaign, Mouse Guard, Primal/Within

City of the Overmind: Of Beholders and Mind Control, Part 1

September 22, 2009 by The Chatty DM

Previously in Chatty’s Game Our heroes were transported into a monstrous city ruled by a mad, fascist Mind Flayer called The Overmind.  After learning that there were pieces of a  key to the Flayer’s castle strewn all over the city, the adventurers set out to seek them out.  They obtained one from a friend and […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: 4e, Burning Wheel, chatty's, Mouse Guard, Primal/Within

Primal/Within Chronicles: City of the Overmind, Part 4

September 10, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See part 3 here. Oh noes!  Failure! After recovering the key part from the Merchant “Prince” the players consulted the Map. Math: All right, the next closest thing is the Vats, let’s go! Eric: No, let’s do the Vats last, we’ll be able to bust them after and then go do Rocco, Franky and Mike’s […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Burning Wheel, Chatty's 2009-2010 Campaign, Mouse Guard, Primal/Within, Tropes

Primal/Within Chronicles: City of the Overmind, Part 3

September 9, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See part 2 here. Stealth and the Art of Not Getting Killed in a Hostile City Chatty DM: So what do you want to do first? Yan: Well, we’ll start my goal of trying to find rumors about the possible location of the key pats. Chatty: All right then let’s make this a 5 part […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Burning Wheel, Chatty's 2009-2010 Campaign, Mouse Guard, Primal/Within, Tropes

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