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Mini-Fluff: More on-the-fly world building

February 27, 2008 – 4:06 pm

Mini-posts are approx. 500 words posts on one of my pet subjects. I usually do them when I have a busy evening, like Adventure Preping or doing things like, you know, exercise!
I’m deep in adventure prep, deeper than I have been for a long time.
I don’t know if it’s the same for you (and [...]

By ChattyDM | Posted in Adventure Prep, Player Psychology | Also tagged , | Comments (19)

Pathfinder #4 preview: Wolfgang Baur must really hate me

February 4, 2008 – 9:28 am

This is a continuing series of short posts on Paizo’s Pathfinder adventure path magazine. The image is Copyright 2007 Paizo Publishings.
Yeah I haven’t done one of those in quite some time (Dec 7 to be more precise) for a very good reason, I never got my #4 issue of Pathfinder (written by none other [...]

By ChattyDM | Posted in Review, Tabletop RPGs | Also tagged , | Comments (5)

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 | Posted in Tropes | Also tagged | Comments (25)

Character Genesis: New characters for Pathfinder #1.

January 22, 2008 – 8:38 pm

A few months ago, I prepared a demo D&D game for PM, his friend Vince, and Franky’s brother Mike, all newbies to RPGs or D&D 3.5 in general. Franky had joined to even out the group and act as the expert on the players side.
Our game session, based on Paizo’s excellent Pathfinder #1 [...]

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Mini-Fluff’N'Crunch: Requiem for my Bronze Friend

January 15, 2008 – 8:26 pm

That perfidious and oh so diabolical Yax has been reading all those “WotC presents” books and, through his Red Dragon comic-relief Minion Expy, has announced that our cherished Wizards on the Coast are revamping the dragons.
One thing that broke my heart a bit (the cynics will say that WotC has ripped out theirs long [...]

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