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Quick lessons from the Heroic tier, and looking ahead…

September 29, 2009 by newbiedm

As my campaign progresses, we are quickly approaching the conclusion of the heroic tier of adventuring. In fact, on our next session, I expect the pc’s to be almost at the threshold between tiers, and if that’s the case, I’ll just bump them up to paragon. My justification in doing so is simple: one, because […]

Adding a new (third) dimension to Dungeon Tiles

September 23, 2009 by newbiedm

Today I have another post on Dungeon Tiles, following yesterday’s article. This one will be short, as I haven’t quite tested it out in actual play. I posted a few pictures on my twitter account, which I’ll post here, where I try to add a 3d element to my Dungeon Tiles. Next gaming session I […]

Playing with my Dungeon Tiles

September 22, 2009 by newbiedm

I’ve been taking a look at my box of Dungeon Tiles lately, and realizing they aren’t getting much use. Normally, I tend to find maps I like online, be it from Wizard’s Map a Week archive, Dungeon magazine, or published modules, scale them up in Photoshop and print them out at a 1″ scale. This […]

What’s cool about the DMG2?

September 19, 2009 by newbiedm

The Dungeon Master’s Guide 2 is a great book. Go get it. Go buy it today. That’s my review. There you go. Now, if you want to read about what to expect in the book that’s of benefit to new DM’s, well, then you’ve come to the right place. This book is in many ways […]

Something Old, Something New: Great DM’s

September 18, 2009 by newbiedm

The other day on Twitter, Phil the Chatty DM suggested a series where we each write about a topic and we’d see how our views compare, taking into account my one-year experience as a DM versus his twenty-five years. I though it was an interesting idea, because I’m inclined to believe that many of the […]

1d12 questions with James Wyatt

September 14, 2009 by newbiedm

I took the ol’ d12 out for another spin, this time to interview Mr. James Wyatt, D&D Design Manager at Wizard’s of the Coast, as well as an author of several Eberron novels. Tomorrow sees the release of the Dungeon Master’s Guide 2, and who better to interview from the D&D team than the author […]

NewbieDM turns a year old today!

September 10, 2009 by newbiedm

A quick post to say that my little blog turns a year old today. In all honesty, I never expected it to last more than a few weeks, given my lack of attention span, but here we are. It’s my sincere hope that I’ve at least helped out one or two of you new dm’s […]

Skill Challenges… yet again…

September 5, 2009 by newbiedm

This may be like my 5th post about this topic. I’m not sure why the thought of skill challenges reared its ugly head yet again as I was sitting at work, but I thought of something that hadn’t occurred to me. While the DMG urges you to lay out the challenge to your players (as […]

A group for New Dm’s on Wizbook

September 4, 2009 by newbiedm

I hate to spam my own site with this sort of stuff, but perhaps some of you new dm’s out there may be interested. I’ve gone ahead and created a group dedicated to us noobs over at the Wizard’s Community site, lovingly nicknamed Wizbook. The group is called ‘The New DM’s Group’ (very vanilla, yet […]

Improved Initiative

September 4, 2009 by newbiedm

I finally had the chance to sit down and play some D&D this week, my first post-Gencon session. We had a blast, and as my players are quickly approaching the end of the heroic tier, events in my campaign are coming to a head. A good time was had by all, even if all we […]