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Consultant GM Case #1: The Wrecked Ship of Horror

November 8, 2008 – 12:01 am

Its the weekend, time to try something new!
In the last few months, I’ve taken a role of GM consulting through Gmail with readers and friends. One of the things I excel at is brainstorming and throwing ideas out. When I started getting great feedback for the ideas I gave out I started thinking maybe I [...]

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Adventure Prep: Of Airships, Feys and Player Input

November 6, 2008 – 11:58 pm

After a poisoned pillow fight, Slave apes and a librarian warrior chainmail bikini fetish, I promised my players that I’d write the last part of our 1st D&D 4e campaign and bring it to an apex of coolness.
Since our next session is next week and the adventure is actually going to be a homebrewed thing, [...]

Kobold Love Update: Scene 2 is up

November 6, 2008 – 12:06 pm

I posted a new Kobold Love article today (my D&D 4e Reverse Dungeon Adventure I’m working on) .
In it, I tackle Scene 2, where the Half-Kobold PCs, travelling to the City to seek out and kill the quest giver, meet a group of inexperienced adventurers traveling in the reverse direction to their dungeon home.
If you [...]

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Chatty’s Question: Your duality as a DM/GM

November 5, 2008 – 8:31 pm

As discussed last week, GMs are often really hard on themselves.
Yet we can’t all be doing a bad job now can’t we?
So I thought to myself, how about we talk some more about that.
I want to know that one thing you know you are good at as a GM. Tell us what comes easily to [...]

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Supers Carnival Roundup!

November 4, 2008 – 12:01 am

Hello, I’m Chatty DM, your host for last month’s RPG Blog Carnival. It was quite a month for Super Heroic RPG blog goodness let me tell you.
So here’s my digest!
Things started out with my good friend Greywulf where he picked some Supers Tropes (Alternate Origins, Costumes, Group names, Base of Operations, etc) and saw how [...]

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