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You are here: Home / Archives for Theme week:Endings

Ending a Campaign: a Few Tips

March 13, 2008 by The Chatty DM

It’s no secret that with the advent of the next edition of D&D, I have endings on the mind. While I’ve still got to make my final decision to adopt 4e upon reading the new Core books over the summer, chances are we are going to go the 4e way. I know many others are […]

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You want to end… D&D? White Wolf’s ready…

March 12, 2008 by The Chatty DM

I’m not dead… I’ve hit one of those deadly pockets of ‘work’ that drain all energy and creativity from your being. Plus my Friday game is not yet ready. If I finish early tonight, I’ll put up a short ‘ending your campaign’ post with tips. In the meantime, here’s something interesting that Tommi sent me. […]

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Adventure Prep: Planning Ahead for the End

March 10, 2008 by The Chatty DM

This series covers the thoughts that go behind my Adventure Preps. I don’t go into details as my players read this blog, but I try to showcase the key challenges and choices I face every time I sit down in the days before we play. Game week again! For those who don’t know, our group […]

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Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: This is the End, Friend

March 9, 2008 by The Chatty DM

No no, I’m not ending this series, no worries. As mentioned here, I’m exploring “Endings” as applied to RPG campaigns… Many long-lasting Role playing campaigns based on power-gaining PCs hinge around a progressively increasing threat that almost invariably escalate to the World Destroying level. The threat usually takes the form of an impeding Cataclysm that […]

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Theme Week: Endings

March 8, 2008 by The Chatty DM

As I was planning my blogging week I realized that I had a running theme going on. So much so that I decided to make it official! Since I’m planning the end of my D&D 3.5 campaign in the next 3 months, I decided to spend the week dealing with endings of all kinds: Today’s […]

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