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Mike Shea from slyflourish.com on the minicast

March 22, 2010 by newbiedm

Episode 3 of the NewbieDM minicast has been released. In this episode of the minicast, Mike Shea, who runs the wonderful DM blog Sly Flourish helps answer a voice-mail from a listener asking for tips on what to do when players loot an NPC carrying far too many magical items. You can find the minicast […]

How I’ve improved my DM’ing

March 17, 2010 by newbiedm

I thought I’d join in on the RPG Blog Carnival craze this month, as it deals with a subject near and dear to my game, dm’ing. Let me tell you about how I’ve improved my game since I started as a DM back when 4e was released in the summer of ’08. Avoid the Railroad […]

Wolfgang Baur joins me on the minicast

March 15, 2010 by newbiedm

Episode 2 of the NewbieDM minicast has been released. In this episode of the minicast, Wolfgang Baur, editor-in-chief of Kobold Quarterly helps answer a voice-mail from a listener asking for tips on how to encourage role-playing from players. You can find the minicast on the Itunes store by searching for newbiedm.com, or just subscribe directly […]

Minicast now available on Itunes

March 12, 2010 by newbiedm

Just a quick post to let you know that the NewbieDM.com Minicast is now available on the Itunes store. You can find it here. Also, you could just do a search for Newbiedm.com in the Itunes store. There’s only one episode so far, but there’s more coming. Also, we (Phil the ChattyDM, Dave Chalker, and […]

NewbieDM Review: Harrowing Halls 3d Dungeon Tiles

March 11, 2010 by newbiedm

The Harrowing Halls set in the Dungeon Tiles line fill a different niche from that of previous sets. The included 3d tiles aside, the 2d stuff is unlike any seen in previous Dungeon Tiles sets. If you’ve ever wanted to design the inside of an inn, or perhaps a mansion, then this is the set […]

The NewbieDM.com Minicast

March 10, 2010 by newbiedm

I’ve decided to toss my fear of public speaking aside and go ahead with the launch of the minicast. As of now, it is active, with an rss feed, and an upcoming link in the Itunes store. The first episode runs just under 6 minutes, and features Phil Menard, The Chatty DM as my guest. […]

Reader Voicemail: Building an Adventure

March 9, 2010 by newbiedm

The response to the voicemail has been pretty fantastic so far, and there’s probably no way that I’ll be able to take advantage of all the voicemails that have come in through a podcast alone, so I thought I’d create a new section for the site called “Reader Voicemail”, where I’ll write an answer, rather […]

On podcasting…

March 3, 2010 by newbiedm

I have two podcast related things to share with readers of Newbiedm.com today. One is that Phil the Chatty DM, Dave Chalker from Critical Hits, and I are launching a DM related podcast. The podcast will be called “The Dungeon Master Guys” and will focus on DM issues only, which means you won’t get the […]

Win all 3 sets of the Arcane Heroes minis

March 1, 2010 by newbiedm

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EDIT: THE WINNER WAS RANDOMLY SELECTED FROM THE COMBINED ENTRY OF TWITTER ENTRIES AND MESSAGES LEFT HERE… THE WINNER IS… Bargle – March 1, 2010 at 4:37 pm —————————————— Do you like Arcane spellcasters? Do you like them when they are about 25mm tall, and they can be used in your D&D game? Well so […]

Hating the sound of my voice…

March 1, 2010 by newbiedm

Just a quick post to plug two things… I had the chance to join in on a discussion of the “Underdark” book over at “The Tome Show” podcast with the show’s host, Jeff Greiner and two additional guests, Mark from Dice Monkey and Chris from Icosahedrophilia. Go check it out if you want to hear […]