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Play rpgKids and give to St. Jude Children’s Hospital

October 31, 2010 by newbiedm

Hey guys. I wanted to do something special for the remainder of the year, right through the holidays. I’m doing this because before I’m a D&D blogger, or anything else for that matter, I’m a dad to two beautiful and healthy kids. If there’s one thing that scares me in life is my kids being […]

Classics Unboxed: Council of Wyrms

October 22, 2010 by newbiedm

The Council of Wyrms boxed set was released in 1994 by TSR for the 2nd Ed. AD&D game. It was written by current head of RPG’s at Wizards of the Coast, Bill Slavicsek. The setting is unique in that for the first time in AD&D it allowed for player characters to play Dragons. One could […]

A new Episode of the “Dungeon Master Guys” is out

October 18, 2010 by newbiedm

It’s hard to believe we’ve reached Episode 6 of the Dungeon Master Guys, the podcast I co-host with Phil “ChattyDM” Menard and Dave “The Game” Chalker both from the Critical-Hits website. I (admittedly) haven’t done a great job publicizing the show too much on this site, but you really need to check it out. It’s […]

Win a copy of the new D&D Essentials Rules Compendium

October 18, 2010 by newbiedm

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Random.org has selected Jeff S. as the winner of this giveaway! Congratulations Jeff! Everyone else, thanks for entering, and be on the lookout for future contests! —————- I wrote a bit about the D&D Essentials Rules Compendium and I really believe that it is a book that having multiple copies of at the table is […]

300. And no, not muscled men with hard abs.

October 14, 2010 by newbiedm

And here’s my 300th post on NewbieDM.com. Whew, what a ride. I recently said all the sappy things you say in times like this, when the blog turned 2, so I’ll tone it down here. What I’d rather do is give a top 10 list of my favorite posts out of the 299 that qualify. […]

Warstories: Play Your Guy Right!

October 13, 2010 by newbiedm

It seems I started a little bit of a mess on twitter recently by tweeting this: “What I want to see more of now in #dnd are builds for character classes that break the roles, like the slayer did & the ranger will as well. I want role to be a choice, not a label […]

Classics Unboxed: Ravenloft

October 9, 2010 by newbiedm

I’ve been wanting to do a series here on the blog where I take old boxed sets and open them up to look at what’s inside, for the benefit of those of you that have either never seen them, or wish to take a nostalgia trip and check them out again. This being October, and […]

Running with the Red Box

October 7, 2010 by newbiedm

I had the chance to run a game last night using the new Essentials Red Box adventure. I ran the game over Gametable with some fine folks from the twitter #dnd community, and we used the pregens that Wizards of the Coast had made available for their Essentials Game Day. The adventure is fairly easy […]

Return of the Minicast

October 5, 2010 by newbiedm

Well… return is a harsh word, as the Minicast never went away, it was just on a summer break. But it’s back, so all is right in the world now, call off the search and rescue. Really though, I took a break from the Minicast over the summer. I had a lot of stuff going […]

Another Giveaway for Dungeon Tiles Master Set

October 4, 2010 by newbiedm

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EDIT: After gathering all the entries and twitter messages, Random.org determined that the winner of this giveaway was “dnd_widow”! Congratulations, and a big thanks to all for entering! We are going to have more contests soon, so be on the lookout for that later this month! ———————————————————- Because Gator Games is so freakin’ awesome, and […]