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Question – Should WOTC have also showcased Dungeon Delve at gameday?

March 21, 2009 by newbiedm

In the interest of full disclosure, I ask this without actually participating in D&D Gameday, as it was my kid’s birthday today… But based on reports I’ve read around the blogosphere, the module “One Dark Night in Weeping Briar” ran waaaaay long. If this is true, that there’s no way this adventure could have been […]

I knew the Half-Elf in the Player’s Handbook looked familiar…

March 19, 2009 by newbiedm

I don’t know, I’m just saying…

Podcasts can be a newbie dm’s best tool

March 19, 2009 by newbiedm

If you’ve never played D&D or are looking to DM but aren’t sure how, you should probably listen to actual play podcasts to help you fine tune your skills. Actual play is just that, recordings of groups of people playing D&D. The Wizard’s website is currently hosting a series of actual play podcasts they did […]

What should new DM’s expect from the Player’s Handbook 2?

March 18, 2009 by newbiedm

So you are a relatively new DM. You’ve read the core rules in and out, and feel pretty confident at the table when you run your games. Good for you, because now comes a curve ball your way, the PHB2! Don’t worry, I’m a new DM as well, so let’s go through this together, as […]

Stealth rules in PHB2

March 17, 2009 by newbiedm

A quick note, because I’ve been seeing this more and more in web searches leading to newbiedm.com, regarding the new stealth rules in the PHB2. Guys, they are just a reprint of the official errata that Wizard’s had already put out for the first PHB. There is nothing new there. If you have downloaded the […]

PHB 3 speculation: Assassins?

March 14, 2009 by newbiedm

The latest issue of Dragon Magazine has an article titled “Art of the Kill”, with feats, items, paragon paths and other loads of crunch to carve out your own assassin into your game. But there is an interesting sidebar on there that opens up the possibility of an assassin core class in the next Player’s […]

Portable Dungeon Tile playing surface

March 12, 2009 by newbiedm

This weekend I was going to play somewhere other than my house, and I intended on using Dungeon Tiles. Now, these things are prone to sliding around a lot on table surfaces, so I came up with a little something I plan on using whenever I take my game to someone elses house. It’s a […]

Open Game Table

March 11, 2009 by newbiedm

A lot of people have written about this, but I feel I should jump in as well. The Core Mechanic, an RPG Blog way better than this one could ever hope to be, has been hard at work self-publishing a book composed entirely of articles written by RPG bloggers. Putting this book together has been a […]

Using Dungeon Tiles with Dungeon Delve

March 10, 2009 by newbiedm

If you are planning on picking up Dungeon Delve, and using Dungeon Tiles with it, be warned, the book uses the “Halls of the Giant Kings” set in 7 of the 30 delves. That set is currently out of print, and based on the prices it is fetching on Ebay it looks like it is […]

Monte Cook launches new subscription based website Dungeonaday.com

March 10, 2009 by newbiedm

Monte’s getting in the subscription based model, offering daily (!) updates, encounters, maps by Ed Bourelle (SkeletonKey Games), and other fun D&D goodies. It is 3.x stuff, so I don’t see me getting much out of it except perhaps ideas adaptable to 4.0, we’ll see… I know he has a gazillion fans, and many folks are […]