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

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 [...]

Chatty’s Review: The 4e Dungeon Master’s Guide

If you want a very good (albeit mostly positive) review of the 4e Core books, look no further than Martin Ralya’s. I don’t think I can beat it in terms of depth, style and entertaining values, but I’ll do my best to share my thoughts on the book in my own rambling style.
The latest [...]

Chatty’s Initial Thoughts on 4e

I’ve decided that I won’t review the 4e Core Books. I will probably do a few ‘Chatty on 4e’ and ‘Chatty’s Debate’ posts on things in the core but I won’t review them.
Part of this is because my way of doing reviews tend to be pretty massive. I’d end up with a multi-parter [...]

Robin Laws’ Revisited: Part 5, Creating your Adventure

This post is part of a series where I discuss Robin D Laws’ seminal work on GMing: Robin Laws’ of Good Game Mastering, written at the end of the 90’s . I compare it to my personal experience and opinions and I check how well the guide has ‘aged’.
The other posts of this series [...]

Chatty’s Review: Wii will get you Fit

I just guest posted a new review about Wii Fit over at Critical-Hits.
Why don’t you go and have a look… you might learn just how evil that thing truly is!
I love it and my son loves it… he can’t wait to recover from his surgery to start playing it again.
Enjoy!
I may tackle Boom Blox [...]

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