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Random Thoughts: Story Telling Dungeon Crawling Kids in Diablo’s Caves to Crit Mearls

June 30, 2008 – 10:36 am

(Told you I would not last a week)
I was supposed to be at work, getting ready for the arrival of a new colleague in my team but my 6 year old son has developed a case of Chicken Pox.
I’m therefore at home, playing some Raving Rabbits 2 with him and drawing some Manga out of [...]

Taking a break for some Gen Con Prep

June 28, 2008 – 6:46 pm

All right, up to now, whenever I posted about posting less, I always ended up posting more.
However, I now have to write quite a few pages worth of Trope and Player type GM tips and advice for the Gen Con seminar I’ll be co-hosting with DNAPhil and Vicki Potter.
I also need to do them now!
So [...]

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Chatty’s Wow Posse: So it starts

June 27, 2008 – 8:41 am

Image Credit: Heliopolis at Deviant art
So I joined the Kirin Tor Server after reading that Shamus Young was trying it (and if you read between the lines of his recent posts) liking it.
I was well received in the Pig & Whistle Society guild and have also had the pleasure of buggin Shamus with my [...]

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Chatty’s Review: The D&D 4e Player’s Handbook

June 26, 2008 – 8:01 am

Last week, I reviewed the DMG and found it to be the best version of this long-lived book. It wasn’t without flaws, chiefly among those was how the writing of Skill Challenges was doing the mechanic near-criminal injustice.
This week, I’ll tackle the 4th Edition Players Handbook, from the standpoint of its content and then [...]

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Chatty’s Debates: The Relative Merits of Action-Oriented RolePlaying

June 25, 2008 – 6:22 am

I know that this here site has been somewhat content-lighter lately. Summer has arrived and I start to feel the pull for other evening activities than blogging.
Also, since I don’t have a game going anymore, gone are the periodic DM logs or Game Prep posts. There’s nothing to be worried about, just a more infrequent [...]

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