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Collateral Damage #3: The Avengers Initiative Part 1: Training Day, Prise Deux

June 7, 2012 by The Chatty DM

Collateral Damage is back, our cheating, barely heroic characters try to complete Avengers training… of course, they’re not going to do it by the book… that would be boring.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Campaign Logs, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Collateral Damage, marvel, marvel heroic roleplaying, Marvel RPG, MRH, Super Heroes

Collateral Damage Issue #2: Super Shenanigans at Camp Hammond

March 23, 2012 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty relates his second, homebrewed Marvel Heroic Roleplaying session. This month, the members of Collateral Damage are taken to Camp Hammond for the basic Avengers training.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Campaign Logs, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Collateral Damage, marvel, marvel heroic roleplaying, Marvel RPG, MRH, Super Heroes

Collateral Damage Issue #1: Electric Ninja Boogaloo, Part 2

February 23, 2012 by The Chatty DM

Join us dear readers in a thrill ride where dangers and catastrophe are a dime a dozen. Witness the birth of a new Superhero team in the heart of the City of Angels. Collateral Damage is here to stay! Take a special behind-the-scenes tour here and don’t miss Part 1 of this exciting new series! Excelsior!

Filed Under: Actual Play, Campaign Logs, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Collateral Damage, marvel, marvel heroic roleplaying, Marvel RPG, MRH, Super Heroes

Collateral Damage Issue #1: Electric Ninja Boogaloo, Part 1

February 21, 2012 by The Chatty DM

Welcome true believers to a series describing the antics of the newest super hero team: Collateral Damage! I hope you’ve caught our special pre-launch issue where we showed you the nitty-gritty aspects of our creation process. Now get ready form pure raw action and laughs as only the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game can offer you!

Filed Under: Actual Play, Campaign Logs, Comics, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Collateral Damage, marvel, marvel heroic roleplaying, Marvel RPG, MRH, Super Heroes

Collateral Damage #0: The Making of a New (Marvel RPG) Series

February 17, 2012 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty invites you to the writer’s room of his new Marvel Heroic Roleplaying campaign with four of his buddies. It’s been too long!

Filed Under: Actual Play, Adventure Prep, Campaign Logs, Comics, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Collateral Damage, marvel, marvel heroic roleplaying, Marvel RPG, MRH, Super Heroes

Pain of Campaigning: Rotating GMs

April 14, 2011 by The Main Event

Dave and I always joked about our gaming white whale: The Supers Game. It’s not that running a superhero game was impossible, it was just that, for us, it had never gelled. Enter Gencon 2010 and my purchase of DC Adventures. I had a system, and I had player interest (though just barely); I even had a weeknight that would work, but I had one problem:

I wanted to play the damn game, not just run it.

Filed Under: Pain of Publication, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dc adventures, DC Universe, gming advice, Super Heroes, Supers

Afterschool Trope Post: Holy Super Heroic Fantasy Batman!

October 27, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This month, I am the custodian of the RPGbloggers Monthly Carnival which is about Super Heroes. I thought it would be a perfect occasion to do a new Trope post about mixing some Super Heroes in my D&D Kool Aid! Trope: A narrative shortcut taken in a story that the audience will recognize and have […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games, Tropes Tagged With: 4e, Super Heroes, Tropes, Tropes Season 2

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