This review is a long time coming, and for that I apologize to Hannah Lipsky, of Chaotic Shiny Productions. She had sent me her work, Martial Flavor, for review some time ago and I put it in the proverbial backburner and it sat there longer than intended. Again, my apologies. So, with that out of… [Read more…]
The following comes from the classic “Keep on the Borderlands” module, by Gary Gygax. It’s a very accurate description of Dm’ing, and one worth reading every so often. How To Be An Effective Dungeon Master As Dungeon Master, the beginner is faced with a difficult problem. The DM is the most important person in the… [Read more…]
Quinn Murphy from the At-Will blog joins me in the latest minicast, where a reader asks about scaling encounters for more than 5 players. Remember to call the voicemail at 305-349-3026 and leave a question for both the minicast, and the upcoming Dungeon Master Guys hosted by Phil the Chatty Dm, Dave Chalker and myself.… [Read more…]
D&D Encounters is an organized play thing Wizards is doing on Wednesday nights at game stores around the country. On Twitter, they post certain effects that DM’s can grab and use at their table during the session. While I am not playing in D&D Encounters, I thought it would be kind of neat to collect… [Read more…]
Chris Heard, of the wonderful, actual play Icosahedrophilia podcast, and I were talking via twitter the other day on ways a DM can help his players, and he suggested somebody should write a blog post about it. So I did. Sometimes there are things your players may forget to do that you can remind them… [Read more…]
The winner of the contest selected via random.com, from a pool of both the comments and twitter entries is… Jimwise said this on March 22, 2010 at 12:43 pm Congratulations…… ———————————————————————————————————————- DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND, WE ARE WXENDING THE CONTEST FOR ONE MORE DAY, UNTIL SATURDAY MARCH 27th AT 11:59pm EASTERN/8:59PM PACIFIC. ———————————————————————————— Once again,… [Read more…]
Episode 3 of the NewbieDM minicast has been released. In this episode of the minicast, Mike Shea, who runs the wonderful DM blog Sly Flourish helps answer a voice-mail from a listener asking for tips on what to do when players loot an NPC carrying far too many magical items. You can find the minicast… [Read more…]
I thought I’d join in on the RPG Blog Carnival craze this month, as it deals with a subject near and dear to my game, dm’ing. Let me tell you about how I’ve improved my game since I started as a DM back when 4e was released in the summer of ’08. Avoid the Railroad… [Read more…]
Episode 2 of the NewbieDM minicast has been released. In this episode of the minicast, Wolfgang Baur, editor-in-chief of Kobold Quarterly helps answer a voice-mail from a listener asking for tips on how to encourage role-playing from players. You can find the minicast on the Itunes store by searching for newbiedm.com, or just subscribe directly… [Read more…]
Just a quick post to let you know that the NewbieDM.com Minicast is now available on the Itunes store. You can find it here. Also, you could just do a search for Newbiedm.com in the Itunes store. There’s only one episode so far, but there’s more coming. Also, we (Phil the ChattyDM, Dave Chalker, and… [Read more…]
March 31, 2010 by newbiedm
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