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Chatty’s Initial Thoughts on 4e

June 1, 2008 – 5:41 am

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 [...]

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Robin Laws’ Revisited: Part 5, Creating your Adventure

May 26, 2008 – 4:44 pm

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 [...]

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Chatty’s Review: Wii will get you Fit

May 24, 2008 – 8:25 pm

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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Story Building tips, a Contest?

May 24, 2008 – 9:51 am

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 [...]

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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 [...]