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Nothing kills a fight faster than starting a combat.

September 23, 2007 – 6:39 am

Image Source: Fiery Dragon Productions
A few months ago, while reading the most excellent, and sadly concluded, DM of the Rings webcomic, I came upon a very inspiring strip. I wrote a forum post about it but I’d like to re-edit it here instead of letting it fall off the 20th page.
Shamus’ cynical comments [...]

By ChattyDM | Posted in Geek Stuff, Tabletop RPGs | Tagged | Comments (11)

Meet the players!: Eric

September 23, 2007 – 5:58 am

Image Source: Ubi Soft’s Prince of Persia, The Two Thrones
Two weeks ago, I sent a questionnaires like this one to my 5 D&D players. I got 4 responses so far and I’m posting the 2nd one today, along with my usual editorial comments.
What character do you play in our current D&D campaign? (Name, [...]

By ChattyDM | Posted in Player Psychology, Tabletop RPGs | Tagged , | Comments (4)

Has it been 2 months already?

September 22, 2007 – 5:51 am

Image Source: Old-translated-to-French Manga called Mini-Fée.
Yax and the Stupid Ranger crew (Stupid Ranger,Vanir and Dante) celebrated their 2 months on the blogosphere earlier this month and it made me realize that I started at about the same time. Woot, 2 months, 60-some posts (I ain’t called Chatty for nothing!) , 2000 total page views [...]

By ChattyDM | Posted in General Musings | Comments (4)

The 4 stages of a RPG team’s development: Storming

September 21, 2007 – 12:09 pm

Image Source: Canadian Artist Glen Scrimshaw
Let’s forge onwards in this ‘D&D and Workplace teams are similar’ analogy. With the four stages of a team’s development concept, we’ve covered the introduction and the forming of a new RPG gaming group. Now onwards to the choppy waters of a Storming group.
Storming

Half the [...]

By ChattyDM | Posted in Player Psychology, Tabletop RPGs | Tagged , | Comments (6)

Obligatory Blog Social Meme: Four on the Floor

September 21, 2007 – 5:57 am

Wow, a few days shy of my 2nd month doing this Bloggy buisness and I’ve already been tagged by The Stupid Ranger for a thing called a Meme. Now having read both of Brin’s uplift Trilogies I know that a Meme is a lifeform made out of ideas!!!! So I am basically [...]

By ChattyDM | Posted in Geek Stuff, General Musings | Comments (23)
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