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Bedtime Adventure: Enter Cartain!

December 1, 2008 – 12:01 am

This series chronicles my Interactive Storytelling bedtime stories with my kids.  Today is a chronicle of the short session I had with Rory, my 5 year old daughter.
Chatty: So sweetie, do you want to try making a story like I do with Nico?
Rory: Yes Daddy!  I’m going to be Cartain the Warrior Princess that can [...]

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Bedtime Campaign: The Sword of Dreams, Part 1

November 25, 2008 – 3:39 pm

This post is part of a series where I made the going to bed story of my son into a free form roleplaying game.  See the first post here and the whole series here.
While I’ve been doing Interactive stories with my son since I came back from Gen Con, not all of them were worthy [...]

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Chatty’s Finds: Kids, Castle and Caves

November 3, 2008 – 5:30 am

During my daily luminotherapy sessions, I travel the net for some blog goodies.
Through Jeff’s Gameblog and through James’s Lamentation of the Flame Princess, I found a link to an outfit called Brave Halfling Production that currently supports some of the Retro-Clone games out there (i.e. New RPGs inspired by the rulesets of the Original late [...]

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Chatty’s Mailbox: D&D 4e with kids

October 12, 2008 – 11:48 am

Yeah, I have playing RPGs with kids on my mind lately.  I’m ready to move on to new things but here’s another post in the subject.
Last week I got a very interesting email from fellow Montreal reader and blogger Eric.
Turns out that after a 12 year break from DMing, Eric bought 4e and decided to [...]

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Bedtime Campaign: Brother and Sister in the Car Edition

October 9, 2008 – 8:45 pm

Three weeks ago I was on a fairly long car trip with both my children.  I decided to test freeform storytelling with both of them to see how well young siblings could cooperate.
After quite a rocky start we managed to agree on some rules so we could avoid fighting and move our story forward.
Which comes [...]

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