The Chatty DM – Critical Hits

I decided to dig into my PDF library of RPGs and look at "The Magus". I had bought it last year during a Twitter-driven "Sell me an amazing Indie RPG" thread but I hadn't gotten to reading it yet...

https://critical-hits.com/blog/2022/03/24/review-the-magus/

"It's like they put a high scoring mechanism on a Rainy-Day-Jigsaw-Puzzle session and realized it was (redacted) addictive." -me on Twitter.

https://critical-hits.com/blog/2021/08/10/chatty-on-games-1-dorf-romantik/

Whenever I have a short pause in in what I'm doing at my desk, I reach out for the little pile of index cards called "The Horizon Consipracy" and add new cards to it.

https://critical-hits.com/blog/2020/06/08/13th-age-indexing-truths/

Then a question came to me: “Which icon is going to run interference in this scheme?” and asked for a final d12 roll and came up with “The Diabolist”

https://critical-hits.com/blog/2020/05/19/the-horizon-conspiracy/

We had two adventure hooks going in: working as an escort for a wagon bound for the frontier city of Phandalin. The second plot hook, provided by the party itself was that Phandalin was their nex...

https://critical-hits.com/blog/2019/03/04/godless-lands-chronicles-1-of-goblins-and-charlatans/

D&D Beyond is an amazing, albeit expensive tool that gives me 90% of what I need at the table. But the missing 10% can be real annoying.

https://critical-hits.com/blog/2019/02/25/dd-beyond-from-trial-to-adoption/

As players were picking their character's classes, I noticed that no one was jostling to pick primary divine-powered classes like clerics or paladins. That gave me a new idea to support my Godles...

https://critical-hits.com/blog/2019/02/11/the-godless-lands-the-fall-of-the-divine/

Once we'd established the foundation of the Setting in which we'd play, we proceeded to create the party. True to the principles of Cheetoism, we gathered together, ordered food and discussed the...

https://critical-hits.com/blog/2019/02/06/the-godless-lands-the-troupe/

As we settled on the core setting, the ideas of playing in a world were all the gods were violently snuffed more or less recently still churned in my mind. I decided that this was a theme I wante...

https://critical-hits.com/blog/2019/02/04/the-godless-lands-genesis/

An alternate cosmology for D&D, Pathfinder, and other d20 fantasy RPGs.

https://critical-hits.com/blog/2019/01/07/the-godless-lands/