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New Contest: The One Sentence NPC!

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 [...]

Story Contest results

I’m slowly catching up on things.
A few weeks ago, I launched a contest to get people to submit Characterization tips to help me and my group get better tools to create better integrated adventuring parties.
Well I had about 40 tips from 20 people. Quite a nice turnout given that characterization is not the easiest [...]

Story Building tips, a Contest?

I read this over Robin D. Laws’ Livejournal this morning.
He starts with:
Given that we’re learning a new crunch-based system I was concerned that the characterization could get lost. So I asked each of the players to submit a two-pronged character arc. This consisted of two opposed possible outcomes for their characters as they develop through [...]

Ten Words to Victory, Winners and Runner Ups All Together!

Well it’s done, what started as a lunch-time idea exploded in the biggest thing we ever tackled here.
With the help of fellow bloggers Dave The Game and Jeff Rients we whittled down 21 pages of entries filled with several hundreds of 10 word adventure concepts.
As indicated, the entries were so numerous and so good [...]

10 Word Contest Update: We got Prizes!

Hey there everyone!
Last Friday I sent some email feelers to three gaming companies to try to get some more prizes for the contest (as things were I had 1 Booster box of the Dungeons of Dread D&D mini game or a 15$ Gift Certificate for DriveThruRPG.com).
Last night, Ed Healy of Kobold Quarterly answered and offered [...]

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