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Cheap poster map printing

October 3, 2011

This past week I decided to seek out other ways to print out poster maps besides just using up all my ink at home. It turns out that printing some posters at the bog box stores wasn’t too expensive. Check it out. I grabbed the map for the Neverwinter region that the artist Mike Schley […]

Return of the Minicast

September 20, 2011

So once upon a time I had a podcast called the NewbieDM.com Minicast, and it was nominated for an ENnie and stuff…. and then… poof… it disappeared due to several factors. Well, I want to bring it back. So I’m ready to start production on Season 2 of the show… It’ll be the same format, […]

Win a copy of Madness at Gardmore Abbey

September 19, 2011

Time to pick a winner, and random.org decided that “mbeacom” was the winner! Congratulations and thanks for entering our giveaway! Look for more in the near future! —————————————————————————————————— It’s time to bring back the big giveaways here at NewbieDM.com, and thanks to Gator Games, this week’s entry is huge, it’s deluxe, it’s super, it’s… Madness! […]

Madness at Gardmore Abbey unboxing

September 18, 2011

I wanted to do a quick unboxing of this adventure, as there seems to be some interest in seeing what’s inside the box. This is not a review, just a very, very quick glance inside the box. I haven’t read the contents of the adventure yet, so don’t expect that out of this video. Also, […]

NewbieDM.com Turns 3!

September 10, 2011

Just wanted to take the time to thank everyone who’s visited the site these past three years, it has been a blast! Honestly, it has been a great ride and besides helping out tons of you in your DMing, the site’s been nominated for Ennies, recently passed 800,000 page views, and gave me the platform […]

Planning Neverwinter

September 9, 2011

One of the strengths of the Neverwinter campaign setting, as I stated in my review, is the inclusion of character themes. Character themes were first introduced in the Dark Sun setting as a way to tie the PC’s into the world, with a ready to go plot hook for the DM to build stories around. […]

Classics Unboxed: Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (2nd ed. AD&D)

September 2, 2011

Continuing my series on classic boxed sets, we’ve arrived at my favorite (in my collection), the Forgotten Realms box for 2nd Ed. AD&D. Now, it’s important to keep in mind that this is not the old grey box released in 1987 for 1st Ed. AD&D, but rather an updated version for the 2nd edition of the game. If […]

The Ipad DM: Goodreader

September 1, 2011

In my previous post on this series, I wrote about Index Cards, a screenwriting app suitable for organizing details of your campaign. Now, I’m going to show you Goodreader, the app I use for reading, organizing, marking, and making printouts of pdf’s in my gaming library. At $4.99, it’s cheap and very useful, and I […]

Getting back on the 4e horse

August 24, 2011

This week I got back to Dm’ing 4e. No, I haven’t dropped Dragon Age, in fact that’s going quite well, but rather I added a game to my schedule. I’m running this game online, and I made it Essentials only, so it’s an experiment of sorts. One, I wanted to see what Essentials brought to […]

NewbieDM Review: Neverwinter Campaign Setting

August 20, 2011

I’ll start this review by telling you that I’ve never been a huge Forgotten Realms guy, although I love the older Forgotten Realms products. I’ve owned the boxed sets, source books and a few novels from the 2e era of the Realms. I even own the 3e forgotten Realms book, even though I played very […]