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Afterschool Trope Special: The Dungeon Crawl, Part 1

April 15, 2009 – 1:44 pm

This is Post # 600 on Musing of the Chatty DM!  To celebrate this and my Dungeon theme week, I decided to write an article in the style that has made me known as a RPG blogger: a Trope post!  You are new to the blog and don’t yet know about Tropes?  Here’s a handy [...]

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Under New Management

April 1, 2009 – 12:01 am

Good day! I am Vanir the Chatty DM. You probably came here expecting Phil the Chatty DM. I’m sorry to say that Phil has taken an extended leave of absence due to a severe poutine-related injury and will not be back for some time. In the meantime, he has handed his cape and sceptre to [...]

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Raiding the Library : Neal Stephenson’s worlds, Part 1

January 5, 2009 – 12:00 am

Man, I haven’t felt like that in months!  I feel like spending the whole damn day at the keyboard and churn out thousands upon thousands of words just for the sake of it.  That’s always a good sign.
I’m one avid reader.  I read novels by the buckets when I have the time to do it.  [...]

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Afterschool Trope Special: Fill Up the Nighmare Mobile

October 31, 2008 – 12:01 am

What, two Trope posts in the same week?
Why not? It’s been ages since I wrote any of them, and this is Halloween after all.
With a satisfying ‘thunk’ Tragak the barbarian sheared the Orc Shaman’s head, sending it flying in the room’s dank, dark corner. As he was looting the body, he failed to notice the [...]

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Afterschool Trope Post: Holy Super Heroic Fantasy Batman!

October 27, 2008 – 12:01 am

This month, I am the custodian of the RPGbloggers Monthly Carnival which is about Super Heroes.
I thought it would be a perfect occasion to do a new Trope post about mixing some Super Heroes in my D&D Kool Aid!
Trope: A narrative shortcut taken in a story that the audience will recognize and have expectations about. [...]

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