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Solos and Their Environment

April 28, 2010 by newbiedm

With this post I’m not talking about a Dragon’s fart affecting greenhouse gasses and causing global warming in your campaign world. I’m talking about truly making an encounter with a solo a memorable one, using the environment around them. Talking D&D on twitter the other day (hmm, I write that a lot, don’t I?) I […]

NewbieDM.com Minicast Ep. 5 now available

April 27, 2010 by newbiedm

On this episode of the minicast, I am joined by Chris Sims, a former D&D game designer for Wizards of the Coast. Together, we attempt to help a listener who asks about how to best incorporate published adventures into his campaign world, along with how to bring in pre-published npc’s and location names. Chris Sims […]

Win all 3 sets of PHH: Divine Heroes D&D Minis

April 26, 2010 by newbiedm

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WINNER: The Winner was Jeff Foley, selected via random.org from the pool of comments here and twitter messages. Thanks for entering and keep looking out for future contests. —————————————————— Back with another giveaway, and this one should be popular, because it involves miniatures. Minis are good, but free minis are even better. And since these […]

A Question of Character

April 25, 2010 by newbiedm

The other day on twitter there was a discussion on how much background info a DM needs from his characters to start a campaign with. There were some DM’s who seem to enjoy a lot of background stuff, while others were more than happy with a few lines. Me? I don’t need a lot. Just […]

Star Wars Saga Condition Track and D&D

April 22, 2010 by newbiedm

I am now officially in love with SW Saga Edition, although I’m not surprised that I would be. I’ve always heard about what a great system it is, how great it runs, and how it served as a sort of pre-4e testing ground of sorts. Well after fully reading it and running it, I can […]

Setting the mood in a galaxy far, far away…

April 21, 2010 by newbiedm

I blogged about this before, last year when I thought I was going to start a SW Saga campaign. it took a while to get it going, but finally tonight we are playing Star Wars. I’ll be running it, taking a small break from my 4e campaign for a few sessions, and then just run […]

Mapping For Me

April 20, 2010 by newbiedm

I’ve decided to not complicate my life with the mapping of my world. You see, ever since I started DM’ing I’ve wanted a kick ass map of my homebrew world, Elderyn. The graphic on my old header was a map I created using Autorealm and a Photoshop plugin that created the elevation and relief on […]

Analog Initiative Tracker for Heroic Tier

April 18, 2010 by newbiedm

If you are a newbie DM, and are having problems tracking and getting the hang of initiative management, this may be of some help. I created this “calendar” type initiative tracker to work with tokens, where you would just place a token representing characters and monsters in their appropriate squares, based on their roll. You […]

A New Look for NewbieDM.com

April 16, 2010 by newbiedm

So I’ve been toying with the idea for a while about changing the look of the site. A part of me said no, it’s good enough as it is, it’s recognizable, it’s, well… me. But another part of me said to go for it and give it a cleaner layout, nicer contrast, and a more […]

Warstories: The Unprepared Player

April 16, 2010 by newbiedm

I'll assume that at some point in our collective gaming careers, we've all been guilty of this. Heck, I know I have on more than one occasion. I'm talking about the player who shows up to his game with no pencils, 2 dice, a barely legible character sheet he scribbled on a napkin, and a few pages from a scanned copy of the rule book.