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Monthly Archives: November 2007

Ahhhhh, now everything seems to work just fine.

November 17, 2007 – 9:43 am

We had a great crunchy game last night… with lot’s of laughs and a lot of Flight of the Conchords videos during dinner… (Sorry embeding a YouTube Video seems to break the page… to be checked)
As you can see, I switched themes to a darker, less colorful one than the Sci-Fi theme. (To be [...]

By ChattyDM | Posted in Geek Stuff, General Musings | Comments (7)

Call to all minions!

November 16, 2007 – 8:24 am

It’s been while since I made a Crunch Overlord post (I can already hear Yan groan). But as I did last time I’ll actually add some usefull RPG table psychology stuff. Its also a community thing, I hope you won’t be too offended if I call you minions…
Also just so [...]

By ChattyDM | Posted in Player Psychology | Tagged | Comments (77)

Mini-Crunch: The Golem’s Magical Immunities

November 15, 2007 – 1:52 pm

When Grandaddy Gygax created the various types of Golem (borrowed from Jewish folklore I believe… Yup that’s right), I think he was aiming at a Monster that would be hard to deal with at High Level and that would allow Fighters and other non-spell casters a chance to shine with their +3 weapons.
That concept has [...]

By ChattyDM | Posted in Tabletop RPGs | Tagged , | Comments (3)

Mini-Fluff: The DM’s Fingerprint

November 15, 2007 – 1:29 pm

I have started reading David Eddings again (and I just learned from a French reference at the bottom that his wife and co-author died shortly after Robert Jordan… this is sad) and it brought back a meta-literature discussion I have had in the last few years.
I have read a lot of novels, a few hundred [...]

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Mini-Posts: New Features for busy days

November 15, 2007 – 12:17 pm

I’m currently sicker than I have been in many years. I have the constitution of an Ox and a cold is usually only a 24-48 hour thing, but I caught one of those once-per-5 years bug that slays me. Now I’m stuck home for the second day and it sucks because I have [...]

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