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Discussion: Does the game influence DMing styles?

November 15, 2011 by newbiedm

Monte Cook’s Legends are Lore articles are a little puzzling to me. They certainly take an old school approach to D&D that isn’t even present in Monte’s own version of D&D (3.0), but that’s a thought for another time… The latest article asks if “the game presents players with challenges that have pre-made solutions?” This is something […]

Win the Dungeon Master’s Guide 2 & Monster Manual 2

October 24, 2011 by newbiedm

It’s time for another giveaway, and this time we are celebrating halloween with twice the treats! We are giving away a pair of copies of two D&D books to a lucky reader! Only the cool folks at Gator Games make things like this happen. We are giving away new copies of two 4e classics, the […]

1d12 Questions with author R.A. Salvatore

October 21, 2011 by newbiedm

I recently had the opportunity to talk to distinguished fantasy author R.A. Salvatore about his latest novel, “Neverwinter”, one part of the suite of Neverwinter-themed products that WOTC is rolling out this year. Mr. Salvatore has sold over 15 million books in the US, has more than four dozen books to his credit, 23 New York Times […]

rpgKids Adventure Pack now available, and CNN.com featured rpgKids!!!!

October 19, 2011 by newbiedm

Wow. What a crazy week. So CNN.com featured me on their Geekout blog talking up kids and role playing games. Pretty cool for all of us rpg bloggers out there, they are noticing us and paying attention to what we have to say. I have to say that being featured on CNN ranks up pretty […]

Star Wars d6 via Maptool

October 9, 2011 by newbiedm

The other night I played in a Star Wars d6 game (run by Mark Meredith of Dice Monkey) via Google+ Hangouts. Since I have an older PC, the experience for me was less than stellar, as G+ Hangouts uses webcams, audio, filesharing, and it all hogs too much of my resources. Afterwards I mentioned to […]

Cheap poster map printing

October 3, 2011 by newbiedm

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 […]

Win a copy of Madness at Gardmore Abbey

September 19, 2011 by newbiedm

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 by newbiedm

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 by newbiedm

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 by newbiedm

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. […]