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Monthly Archives: January 2008

A geek by any other name…

January 27, 2008 – 5:47 pm

It’s no secret that a minor theme of this blog is all things geeky… RPGs and Dming being the main subject of my Geeky blogging.
Last Friday, Math arrived home and showed his new iPod Touch to my wife Alex. Of course, she went bonkers over it and Math, laughing, came downstrais to join us, [...]

By ChattyDM | Posted in Geek Stuff, General Musings | Comments (9)

DM Chronicles, Session 10: Oh My! Drows are squishy!

January 27, 2008 – 9:22 am

This series chronicles our current D&D 3.5 campaign set in my home-grown world with Ptolus added to it. We’ve just started playing a heavily-adapted version of WotC’s Expedition to the Demonwebs pits.
As you may recall from last time, I had mixed feelings about the game and I had been going a [...]

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

Chatty’s Out of the Box #000.1

January 25, 2008 – 10:06 am

I’m currently fooling around with the idea of creating a Photo webcomic… not seriously, I have no time for that… but the idea is slowly eating whatever’s left of my brain.
So I downloaded the Comic Book Creator demo and started playing with it.
Here’s what I came up with… I had to go through Screenshot rips [...]

By ChattyDM | Posted in Webcomics | Tagged | Comments (4)

Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat…

January 24, 2008 – 3:33 pm

Sooooo, a few days ago Vanir puts up a post about what his Epic Level Heavy-Metal Bard called Bat Loaf did when he was riding the Tarrasque with his pals.
My brain broke down somewhere down the line but now that my memory matrix has been reconstructed, it seems that Bat Loaf got his metal S.O. [...]

By ChattyDM | Posted in Player Psychology, Tabletop RPGs | Tagged | Comments (20)

Robin’s Laws Revisited: Part 2, Player Types and Traits

January 23, 2008 – 9:14 pm

This post is part of a new series that explores Robin Laws’ seminal work on GMing. This time I tackle the book’s fundamental subject of player types and what they seek in RPGs. Part one can be found here.

The second chapter of Robin’s Laws of Good Game Mastering brings up the subject that knowing [...]

By ChattyDM | Posted in Player Psychology, Review, Tabletop RPGs | Tagged , | Comments (9)
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