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The Smallest of Gaming Groups: DM+1

November 29, 2010 by newbiedm

Recently, after a 3 years hiatus due to my son being born, I’ve gotten back into Warcraft. I played Warcraft before 4e came out in order to satisfy a gaming itch I had, and now the recent Cataclysm event in the game piqued my curiosity. But this isn’t an article about Warcraft, but rather what […]

Win a copy of Dungeon Tiles Master Set: The City

November 22, 2010 by newbiedm

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Congratulations to winner Mike, who was selected via random.org from a combination of twitter entries and comments left on the post. Thanks for entering, and be on the lookout for our next contest soon! ———————————————- Want to be thankful for something this Thanksgiving? Well, for starters you can be thankful that there’s a FLGS as […]

NewbieDM Reviews: Essentials Monster Vault, DM’s Kit, and The City Dungeon Tiles

November 16, 2010 by newbiedm

I wanted to do a quick review on these Essentials product, and throw my hat in the ring although you can find tons of reviews and unboxings elsewhere online for all of them. I’ll preface this review by saying that I really like what Wizards of the Coast is doing with the Essentials line, and […]

The Powers That Be

November 10, 2010 by newbiedm

One of my biggest gripes about 4e has always been in the presentation of it, and specifically the presentation of powers. Now I’m not saying that I dislike the power system of 4e, on the contrary, I find it to be a great way to spice up the otherwise boring attack, repeat, attack treadmills of […]

The Home Encounters world map

November 6, 2010 by newbiedm

Some of you may now that I’ve got this side project going called 4e Home Encounters, with Gamefiend from the At-Will Blog, Mark Meredith from the Dice Monkey Blog and Tim Hely working on the cartography (he’s producing the battle maps, not this particular map). I wanted to show you the world map and make […]

Warstories: Feeding the tip jar

November 1, 2010 by newbiedm

While perusing through the AD&D 1e Dungeon Master’s Guide’s introduction, I read a few interesting things. One was the amount of hyping that Gygax did to “official” AD&D products, and how you should not pay attention to 3rd party stuff. I found this comical because of the amount of grief people give WOTC about being […]