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Teach Kids to Game: Nico and Rory’s Stories

November 18, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty revisits most of his “Playing with Children” posts and represents them in anthology form to celebrate “Teach Kids to Game” week.

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Bedtime roleplaying, D&D, Dungeons and Dragons, gaming with children, Gaming with Kids, Teaching RPGs

The Dungeon Reality Show, D&D Essentials Edition, Part 2

February 3, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty concludes his play report of the Dungeon Reality Show: Sunderpeak Temple. Includes lizard-skin clothes, trashy priestesses, one-roll skill challenges and Beads of Awesomeness ’nuff said. Come and read!

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits Tagged With: d&d 4e, Demos, Dungeon Reality Show, one-shot, Say Yes, Teaching RPGs

The Dungeon Reality Show, D&D Essentials Edition, Part 1

February 1, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty starts relating how his recent Dungeon Reality Show was such a huge success and starts his reconciliation with D&D 4e.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Geek Stuff, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits Tagged With: d&d 4e, Demos, Dungeon Reality Show, one-shot, Say Yes, Teaching RPGs

Teaching RPGs, a Quick Retrospective

October 7, 2010 by The Chatty DM

I’m off to New York City in a few hours to attend Comic Con 2010. One of my main activities over there will be to participate in the “Learn to Play D&D” experience at the Wizards of the Coast booth using the newly released Red Box.

Since I’m going to teach D&D to new (or returning) players, I thought it would be appropriate to do a little retrospective of the posts I wrote on the subject and those I found on the net.

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Teaching RPGs

D&D 4e Ptolus: Chatty’s Demo Game

December 4, 2009 by The Chatty DM

(This is the first post I write on my new mini-laptop that you all payed for by visiting this site, I thank you all!) Earlier this fall I attended a local gaming con called Draconis where I demoed a D&D adventure written by my friend Johenius.   At the con, I met Erik, the owner […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Ptolus, Teaching RPGs, world building

Teaching Role Playing Games to New Players

July 6, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This is a guest post of mine that originally appeared in Johnn Four’s Roleplaying tips newsletter #408.  It’s reprinted here to allow for comments.  Subscribe to John’s weekly e-zine for awesome RPG tips delivered to your inbox. Introduction Unless you have been living under a rock, you likely know there is a new edition of […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Teaching RPGs

DM Chronicles: The legend of the Broken Dice, Session 2, Part 2

February 20, 2008 by The Chatty DM

See part 1 here. Before getting into the actual dungeon crawl, as pointed out by Yan in the comments yesterday, I realized that PM was the only PC moving at a speed of 4 squares (20′). He was wearing Scale Mail, which has the same AC bonus as a Chain Shirt, only cheaper and bulkier. […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: D&D for Newbies, pathfinder, Teaching RPGs

DM Chronicles: The legend of the Broken Dice, Session 2, Part 1

February 19, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Way back in October, I played a one shot adventure using Paizo’s Pathfinder #1, Burnt Offering. I wrote the session’s log here. We reconvened last Sunday for another session in a day long geekfest of Dim Sum, Anime and D&D. So on Sunday Morning we arrived at PM’s palace of Cats (he has 2) in […]

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: D&D for Newbies, pathfinder, Teaching RPGs

DM Chronicles, New Player Intro: The legend of the Broken Dice

October 26, 2007 by The Chatty DM

This post features extensive spoilers for the 1st Pathfinder Adventure path adventure “Burnt Offering” Last night we played the introduction D&D game I talked about earlier this week. It was a good game and while I completely realize that I might be expecting too much from D&D, it could have gone better…. but this time, […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Player Psychology, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 3.5e, DMing, pathfinder, Teaching RPGs, Tropes

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