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Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: Have Time, Will Travel.

February 16, 2008 – 7:35 am

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about the Bronze Dragon flying toward the sunset. In that post I challenged readers with a stupid question and the winner(s) could chose the subject of a Trope in RPG post.
Davetrollkin stepped up first and requested I tackle Time Travel. Since time [...]

By ChattyDM | Also posted in Tabletop RPGs | Tagged Time Travel | Comments (12)

Mining Tropes for RPG Goodness: You, Bastard!

January 28, 2008 – 9:50 pm

As promised, after having covered the Overlord trope in all (well at least some of) its RPG glory, I now want to tackle another of my favorite character tropes:
The Magnificent Bastard (I’m making no reference whatever to any good friend of mine, honest!)
Love him or hate him, there’s a certain type of character that [...]

By ChattyDM | Tagged DMing, Fluff | Comments (25)

Mining Tropes for RPG Goodness: Fighting Depression with some Deep Pression!

January 14, 2008 – 6:42 pm

This is the blog’s 200th post! I’ve written a lot of stuff in the last few months, and I’ve enjoyed it immensely. Thank you one and all for giving me the continued gratification of reading these many lines!
Now instead of making this a stats-laden article, I thought I’d write another post [...]

By ChattyDM | Also posted in Player Psychology | Tagged DMing | Comments (15)

Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: I, Overlord!

January 2, 2008 – 8:53 pm

This post is part of a series exploring Tropes (recurrent plot devices and expectations in fiction) as applied to RPGs, see the growing collection of posts on the subject here.
Now that Yax has fallen in my fiendish trap by accepting my Ennies challenge, I thought I’d start the ball rolling by finally tackling [...]

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Mini-Trope: No, I won’t let you tell me about your character…

December 22, 2007 – 7:51 pm

A few weeks ago, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek post about tropish DMs. Tonight I felt like tackling the equivalent for players.
Once again this is going to be a satirical post and not an actual critic on play style. As usual, if this offends you…. ah heck, it’s not like I’m shopping for new [...]