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Chatty’s Bedtime Campaign: Nico’s Party!

August 31, 2008 – 8:00 pm

This is the last part of Nico’s Quest, an interactive bedtime story game I started with him my 6 year old son Nicolas in the last week. I also just bought a digital recorder to better capture the story and write it later since my blogging schedule is starting to get crowded!
Chatty: “So what [...]

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The Seven Habits of Great GMs

August 29, 2008 – 7:00 pm

Inspired by the Stephen R. Covey’s seminal books.
After 25 years of GMing, you learn a few lessons about GMing. Some are easier to learn than others.
Here’s a list of what I’ve observed in good GMs and what I strive to develop. It’s in no particular order.

Being Enthusiastic: A great GM exudes loves [...]

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Project Kobold Love: The Adventure Plan

August 28, 2008 – 7:00 pm

Hello and welcome to the 1st official design essay of Project Kobold Love.
Here I’m going to reveal it to you, all 5 scenes of my adventure, including the very Tropa-licious ending I cooked up last week on my plane ride back from Gen Con.
The 5 scenes model
Kobold Love will follow a model similar to Johnn [...]

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Kobold Love: Interlude 1, The Posse is building

August 28, 2008 – 7:38 am

My Kobold Love adventure plan post goes up at 20h00 EST tonight.
While we wait, I thought I’d share the names of participants who officially joined the ‘hack/test Chatty’s adventure’ part of the Project:
Cross-System Hacking:

Greywulf joined to do it in his own Microlite20.
Dave T. Game joined, hinting about d20Modern.
Fang Langford joined to do it using his [...]

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Campaign/Adventure Prep: 4th Edition Treasure Hunters!

August 27, 2008 – 7:00 pm

My gaming group usually takes off for the summer. We put our campaign on hiatus because of vacations, family quality time and yard work. While we gamed some (Magic:The Addiction, one shot RPG games, etc) this summer was rather dry.
Next Friday is the long awaited start of our new gaming season and both my [...]

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