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Monthly Archives: September 2007

Off for my trimestrial cardboard crack fix

September 30, 2007 – 4:56 am

It’s 6h00 on a Sunday Morning. My 5-year old son is watching Captain Flamingo on the Tube. I’m looking at the blog’s stats ,still somewhat bemused to have at least 58 unique visitors day in day out (I need to go to California, apparently they dig me over there!). I’m also touching [...]

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Meet the players!: Franky

September 29, 2007 – 7:28 pm

Three weeks ago, I sent a questionnaires to my 5 D&D players. I finally got all 5 responses (in exchange for 750 xp each) and I’m posting the 3rd one today, along with my usual editorial comments. See here and here for previous postings.

What character do you play in [...]

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DM Chronicles, Session 3: Of Pools and Crashes

September 29, 2007 – 4:48 am

Image Source: WotC D&D Miniature Game
After having skipped a week from our usual bi-monthly game, I was really looking forward for this week’s. One of our players, Stef, had to stay home because his Wife was away and he was with the kids. So I offered to move the game [...]

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Fluff done right: Paizo’s Pathfinder first impressions

September 28, 2007 – 8:51 am

Like a lot of Dungeon magazine subscribers, it’s with shock and apprehension that I learned about WotC’s revocation of the Dungeon and Dragon magazine licenses.
For those who don’t know yet, Paizo, the publisher of the two magazines, created a new D&D 3.5 compatible adventure magazine (they just don’t say it out loud) called Pathfinder [...]

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The Stages of a RPG Team’s Development, Part 4: Norming

September 27, 2007 – 9:33 pm

We continue with the third topic in this discussion on the life stages of a RPG gaming group that borrows heavily on the work place team development concept.

So far we covered the definition of a RPG Team, it’s forming stage and the harsher storming stage.
When the storm becomes unbearable there are two choices opened to [...]

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