Earlier today we were driving to the restaurant for a family dinner. I’m telling my 7 year old son Nico about how long it’s been since we did an interactive story. Nico “I’d like to have another of those stories” Chatty “You know Nico, you’re old enough to play the real game of Dungeons and […]
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The Rule of the modern Blog
I’ve been reading blogs for about 2 years if you count Webcomics newsposts. I’ve also read that a lot of people got in trouble because of their own blogs (Lost thier jobs usually). I would love to find the links but I’m lazy and I don’t want to spend that much time on this. So […]
Chatty DM, Freelancer, Part 3: RPG Blogging, The Revelation
In which Chatty relates some anecdotes about his first year as a blogger, his first lessons and, more importantly, his coming to terms with what he always has been since middle school…
Chatty’s Reviews: Wolfgang Baur on Playtesting
This post is part of a multi-blog review of Open Designs’ Kobold Guide to Game Design: Volume II, see the Hub page of the reviews here. A few days ago, my good friend Ben McFarland approached me and a few more bloggers to help him get the word out about Wolfgang Baur’s (you know, that […]
So You Wanna Write a RPG Blog? What NOT To Do
Hi folks! My name is Berin Kinsman, and I’ll be guest blogging here while our beloved Chatty DM is off vacationing in the wilderness. I’ve been a roleplayer since 1978, which officially makes me an old grognard. I’ve been writing about gaming on my own site, UncleBear, since 1996, long before the word “blog” was […]
Clean up in Aisle 4!
Hey all, Without getting into details (in order not to break my Golden rule of Blogging), the ‘big thing’ I was waiting for didn’t pan out. I’m done with disappointment and I’m moving on to re-organizing my projects. One of the things I’ll be doing over the next few days is to re-tag my whole […]
Musings on Musings of the Chatty DM
Hey there. I know no one believes me when I say I stop/slow down my posts. I won’t say it anymore. Suffice it to say that I’ve stopped writing posts that take me more than 45 minutes to write since the last 2 weeks (including the Open Letter) as I’m preparing my Gen Con presentation. […]
A Study in CCGs: Magic/Heartstone/Star Wars: Destiny
I would never claim to be a pro, but I’ve played my fair share of collectible card games. In some ways, I think we are in a golden age of the CCG.
The Second Live Gnomish Caucus
The back room gnomes said, have it your way. But, you have to follow our highly confusing rules for the nominating contest which we just made up.
Cargo Cults in the Murder Hobo Dark Ages
Wuffa was King of the Wolf People. He claimed a pedigree going back to the old country’s mythical Kings and their God of War and Death. His actual pedigree went back two generations to a strong man mercenary who seized an opportunity to better himself.
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