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Chatty’s Out of the Box #003: Lean and Green!

February 29, 2008 – 2:40 pm

Here’s another comic! This time with some Quality Control by my good friend PM.
I decided to leave our Plastic Pirate to his interview and explore new characters. The Green Slaad is too ridiculous a figurine not to make him part of the comic.
This joke came to me this morning and it needed to [...]

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4e linkies

February 29, 2008 – 8:14 am

Everyone talks about 4e since the D&D experience is ongoing.
Have a look over at Critical Hits, they are my official source of 4e stuff. Even I can’t stay calm and unfazed by what Dave and Bart are uncovering.
D&D 4e will be a different game, as much as 2e and 3e were different games.
I [...]

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The Rule of Fun!

February 28, 2008 – 9:35 pm

(Image stolen from Critical Hits)
This blog was more or less noticed because of one short text I wrote way back last summer about a Wiki I discovered and a fundamental rule that I believed a successful DM should live by.
There is another one, related to the Rule of Cool, made specifically for games:
The Rule of [...]

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Mini-Fluff: More on-the-fly world building

February 27, 2008 – 4:06 pm

Mini-posts are approx. 500 words posts on one of my pet subjects. I usually do them when I have a busy evening, like Adventure Preping or doing things like, you know, exercise!
I’m deep in adventure prep, deeper than I have been for a long time.
I don’t know if it’s the same for you (and [...]

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Addendum to Adventure Prep and Open Captioned Bragging Contest

February 26, 2008 – 8:17 pm

I can’t write an actual post tonight I have quite a large game to prep because my players decided they wanted to talk with a god and then have a stroll in Asgard/Ysgard…
Were I playing 2e Planescape, I could just say “Tough luck, you don’t have the proper portal key”. However, since it’s one of [...]

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