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New DM’s: Have fun reskinning and playing with keywords

February 26, 2010 by newbiedm

One aspect of D&D 4th Ed. that I like a lot is its simplicity in letting you make the game as customized as you want, both rules wise and story/role-playing wise. The other day on twitter I went as far as calling it “possibly the most abstract D&D yet”, and some people didn’t really […]

Homemade condition cards

February 23, 2010 by newbiedm

In my quest to speed up the table of players world wide (how presumptuous of me) I offer these homemade condition cards. The text will seem a bit different to you than what you may be used to, and that’s only because I wanted to stay out of trouble, but the meaning didn’t change. I […]

Couple of neat finds…

February 22, 2010 by newbiedm

Here are a couple of neat things I found that you can use in your D&D game. Enjoy! First, here’s a thieves cant dictionary. Now your Guildmaster at the Thieve’s Guild doesn’t have to sound like he came out of 2010. Let’s Kimbaw the Cull. Second, here’s a bunch of art from old books. […]

Best Piece of D&D Art, Ever!

February 18, 2010 by newbiedm

I’ve been fighting the urge. I really have. I put this up on my twitter account the other day, and swore that I wouldn’t bring him over to the blog. I fought it so hard, but ultimately, the power of breakdance and boombox is too strong, too persuasive. I invite you now to name this […]

A brief video on 3d Dungeon Tiles

February 17, 2010 by newbiedm

This is a brief example on 3d Dungeon Tiles. I’ve written about this before, but now you can see them on these fancy moving pictures on my youtube channel thingy on the intertubes. I apologize in advance for the muffled sound, I have to get a better mic if I plan to keep making these […]

My 200th post, on delves and a D&D love letter

February 15, 2010 by newbiedm

So, I’ve decided what to do with the downloadable delves idea. I think I’m going to host them right on my site, with the following restrictions: No WOTC art. No WOTC monster stat blocks from books. A created stat block from the Monster Builder is okay, unless I’m told otherwise. Thumbnail images of maps created […]

West End Games is dead, long live West End Games

February 9, 2010 by newbiedm

I am a huge fan of the West End Games Star Wars d6 game. In fact, if I got two calls on the same day, one with a D&D invite, and one with a d6 Star Wars invite, I’d most likely choose to play Star Wars. That’s how much I like it, but unfortunately it’s […]

Warstories: The imploding campaign

February 8, 2010 by newbiedm

I have run the same campaign since the release of 4e. We’ve been able to last together as a unit for this amount of time for a number of reasons, primarily because we all love gaming and as adults nearing the age of 40, playing with kids at the FLGS is not an option. Also, […]

Downloadable Delves

February 1, 2010 by newbiedm

Okay. So here’s a crazy idea. I want to start offering the DM out there with little or no prep time a place for downloading ready made 4e encounters for his or her game. I want to build a library of delves written not just by me, but by the rest of the rpg community. […]

rpgKids at play

January 25, 2010 by newbiedm

EDIT: If you are looking for rpgKids, it now has a permanent webpage here. So yesterday I pulled out the minis and tiles for another game with my 4 year old daughter. One thing immediately stood out: if you aren’t consistent with the gaming, the rules will be forgotten. In her defense though, this is […]