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Adventure Prep: Icing on a planar cake

February 25, 2008 – 9:16 pm

This post is part of a series that covers the preparations I do for my current D&D campaign. You can follow it here.
Yay! Hopefully we’ll have a game this week. Eric, Franky and Yan have confirmed their presence, I just need Math or Stef to confirm and we’re good to go.
My [...]

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Chatty’s Out of the Box #002 : Linear Thinking.

February 24, 2008 – 9:06 pm

Here’s another stab at this Webcomic thing. Click on image to see full comic (and click again if it can be zoomed further).
I had a thousand ideas for the second one all to be crammed in 6 panels. Then I realized that pacing can be different in a comic and that my many [...]

Chatty’s Review: Silvervine, Detailed Mechanics

February 24, 2008 – 6:12 pm

This post is part of a series that tackles the reading review of a yet unpublished RPG called Silvervine. Please note that this game is still in development, my review is part of the pre-playtest feedback.
Last time I tackled Basic Mechanics, now it’s time for the 2nd (of 3) posts on the game’s Crunchy [...]

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Rogue’s Gallery

February 24, 2008 – 11:36 am

For those who missed it. Wizards if the Coast previewed the 4e Rogue’s abilities.
Sticking to my low 4e hype mission, I invite you to drop by Dave and Bart’s Critical hits for the discussion.
I’ll only add that what really sparks my interest is the Attacks vs Wis, Dex or Fort mechanics thatare a nice [...]

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Updating the social contract

February 23, 2008 – 8:40 am

Last night we spent the evening playing Magic the Gathering because 2 of our players were missing.
Our current social contract stipulates that if one player is missing, we play but if two aren’t there, we postpone the game. We’ve had this “clause” for about 5 years and it’s worked pretty well.
However, we’ve had people [...]

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