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Monthly Archives: May 2008

Story Building tips, a Contest?

I read this over Robin D. Laws’ Livejournal this morning.
He starts with:
Given that we’re learning a new crunch-based system I was concerned that the characterization could get lost. So I asked each of the players to submit a two-pronged character arc. This consisted of two opposed possible outcomes for their characters as they develop through [...]

Slow return to Normal

My son was the ultimate trooper.
He spent more than 3 hours in surgery because the Eye-Nose-Throat surgeon had to repair the more extensive than expected damage that the thing growing in his inner ear had done.
The Good news, the growth is gone.
The Bad News, the whole middle ear has been mostly destroyed. While his [...]

Chatty’s Debates: Black Box vs Process-Response design

While pondering the darker reaches of a parent’s anxiety and trying to think of something else, I came upon a post by user Blackeagle on EnWorld’s board.
It’s so good and it touches so many things I was thinking about 4e that I decided to repost it here.
Instead of making a Chatty on 4e post on [...]

False Spam Alerts

I just noticed that some comments get caught by my multi-leveled Spam filtering system (Mostly those with links)… Namely Felonius and Shadow145 lately.
Just a quick note to tell you that should your comment be eaten up by my anti-spam system, just notify me on Gtalk (phil(dot)menard(at)gmail.com) or at chattydm@chattydm.net and I’ll bring it back.
Sorry for [...]

Taking a few days off.

My 6 year old son has a somewhat major surgery scheduled for this Friday. Nothing life threatening, but they have to take something in the bone behind his ear that’s not supposed to be there and that’s slowly making it deaf as it grows.
Any parents reading this will understand that as excited as I am [...]

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