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New Contest: The One Sentence NPC!

June 22, 2008 – 9:00 pm

We’ve had a few contests, here at Musings of the Chatty DM. For instance, we recently had the very successful 10 word Adventure and very useful Characterization ones.
Now it’s time for something bigger! I have teamed up with RPG e-Zine mogul Johnn Four (of roleplayingtips.comfame) to bring you the biggest independent [...]

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Chatty on 4e: Exploration vs Competence / Fun vs Satisfaction!

June 13, 2008 – 1:11 pm

I’ve mentioned in older posts that D&D 4e seemed to go back to the roots of the game for simplicity of Game Prep and monster stats.
So far this has been true. At worse, game stats for level 30 creatures take one full column of the Monster Manual.
Such baddies are usually limited to 4-5 different [...]

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Adventure Prep: Grand Finale, World Saved? Roll Credits!

May 7, 2008 – 9:23 pm

There we are, this is going to be the last Adventure Prep post of the current campaign.
A lot of things were said since that September 6th night where I pondered how to salvage a campaign that started on the wrong foot. Now I’m planning how to end it.
Last game, the PCs met with the Ambassador [...]

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Adventure Prep: Hide in Shadows

April 10, 2008 – 7:50 am

I sat down yesterday to prep and I’m a bit out of ideas for custom scenes and hacking ideas for the adventure we’re playing (Expedition to the Demonweb Pits).
I therefore decided to play the next session almost directly from the adventure and I set out to read it once again to familiarize myself with it.
(It’s [...]

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Adventure Prep: My Rewind button

March 26, 2008 – 8:21 pm

This week, my actual prepping work is rather light.
Since all 6 players are available (What are the odds?) we have to move the game out of my place. I can only accommodate 5 in my gaming den. That means I’ll have to pack my stuff to go to Math’s on Friday evening.
It also just happens [...]

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