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Win a copy of “Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons”

November 30, 2009

I love contests, and I love giving stuff away, that’s why NewbieDM.com has teamed up with Gator Games to give away a copy of Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons! All you have to do to enter the contest is follow both @newbiedm and @gatorgames on twitter, send us a tweet telling us that it’s for the contest, […]

Applying “Subdual Encounters” to Encounters vs. Solos

November 30, 2009

I was reading the section on encounters with dragons in the new Draconomicon book, and something stood out: At its simplest, a subdual encounter is one in which the dragon stops fighting and the characters win when the dragon is bloodied. But the degree of the victory matters, so you will need to keep track […]

NewbieDM Review: “Draconomic: Metallic Dragons”

November 28, 2009

Ahh, Dragons… A staple of the genre, and of course, of a game with the word in its title. Once upon a time, dragons in D&D were classified as good (metallics) & bad (chromatics), but today those lines have gotten a little blurry, and that’s where this edition of the Draconomicon comes in. The book […]

Just a newbie dm after all

November 20, 2009

So this past week we had another session. We usually play every other Wednesday, which is really not a lot of gaming time a year if you think about it. 26 times a year, give or take, remove a few for those days that you just can’t make it and what? We’re looking at […]

Gaming Pics!

November 19, 2009

I have never posted gaming pics before, so tonight I snapped some pictures of our session. We were missing two players tonight, but that’s okay, you’re getting the most photogenic of the bunch, myself at the top of the list. The newbiedm shirt you see one guy wearing was made by my wife for all […]

NewbieDM Tutorial: The Battlemap Part III

November 17, 2009

Here is the last part of the battlemap tutorials for NewbieDM.com, written by professional cartographer Jonathan Roberts. Click here for part 1, and here for part 2. At the end of the last tutorial we had a lovely map, though it’s a little bare. In this tutorial I’ll cover the little tweaks that will finish […]

Winner of the signed copy of “The Ghost King”

November 12, 2009

The winner of the book is Matt, with this artistic rendition of Drizzt: Congrats, Matt! And a signed copy of The Ghost King is on the way!

NewbieDM Tutorial: The Battlemap Part II

November 11, 2009

Here is the 2nd Part of Jonathan Roberts’ battlemap series for NewbieDM.com readers. Part 1 can be found here. In the following weeks, he’ll be providing us with mapping tutorials for regional maps and world maps as well. You can visit Jonathan’s site, Fantastic Maps, to find other great examples of his work. Designing and […]

NewbieDM Tutorial: The Battlemap, a guest post by Jonathan Roberts

November 9, 2009

With this website, I’ve tried to give new DM’s out there tools, resources, and tips to run a better D&D game with. One of the things that I’ve never been able to offer before today, simply because I have no skills at it, is a robust mapping tutorial or series. So I reached out to […]

Warstories: The Game Recap

November 6, 2009

Here’s a quick thing I’m sure all DM’s do in one form or another, whether it’s via email, wiki, pen and paper, or some other form: the game recap. In my particular case, we don’t get to game as often as most of us would like, so as game recap is a great way to […]