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AKA Phil, married extroverted smartass gamer geek with kids. Phil.A.Menard(at)gmail(dot)com

Help him Rebrand Himself, Win a 4e Book

May 15, 2008 – 12:06 pm

My buddy Bob Younce of The DMs Blog (at dndreview.com) is trying to rebrand his blog to better reflect what it’s going to be about.
He seeks help from the community and he’s offering a prize. I’d call him a copycat, if I wasn’t one myself with the 10 word adventure contest (Results out tonight!).
He [...]

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Chatty’s Review: D&D 4e’s Keep on the Shadowfell

May 14, 2008 – 7:39 pm

As mentioned this morning, I was able to read a copy of D&D’s 1st 4e adventure, Keep on the Shadowfell, thanks to ZeStuff.
Now it’s time for the review! Hurrah!
I’ll take the spoiler-free approach (though I may slip a bit in places) as I guess that a lot of readers will want to play it [...]

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Chatty’s New Partner

May 14, 2008 – 6:00 am

In the next few weeks, you’ll see a few changes in the Ad setup of the blog.
After meeting with fellow Quebec businessman Pierre of ZeStuff.com, we’ve agreed on trying a partnership for a while and see how it works out for each of us.
I’m really excited about this! ZeStuff is one cool Geek Online [...]

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Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: The Truman Mirror Tomato Surprise!

May 13, 2008 – 8:51 pm

This is a series that explores Tropes and tries to apply them in RPGs. Have a look here, I wrote over 20 of these so far.
So Sorry for the double feed, something happened when I posted this the 1st time and 1/2 the text was eaten!
One of the things I’ve seen GMs struggle with [...]

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Ods and Ends, part Deux

May 13, 2008 – 7:36 am

Hey! We made it! We topped the 300 RSS subcribers milestone!
I say we, because while I write the site’s content, it really only runs as smoothly with Graham’s technical assistance (whose apparently saving the internet one site at a time) and all of your participation as readers, Stumblers and Commenters.
Woot! I’ve got [...]

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