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My first “RPG Blog Carnival” post

February 2, 2009 by newbiedm

So I decided to participate in this months RPG Blog Carnival, hosted by The Core Mechanic. I cooked up a little map, using my Dungeon Tiles and Photoshop, as I’ve blogged about here. This is a small tavern out in the woods. It is owned by an angry dwarf by the name of Rufus Drunkbeard. […]

Playing D&D while on the road for work…

January 30, 2009 by newbiedm

I do some business traveling for my job, usually for a couple of days at a time. I also find some down time while I am traveling. It occured to me that it would be cool if there was a meeting place, online obvioulsy, for business traveler that enjoy playing D&D to meet up online […]

Cheap dice… I think

January 23, 2009 by newbiedm

This seems cheap to me, granted, I haven’t bought dice in years, I use my old set. Anyway, here it is… PS- There is a minimum order of $15.00 for ordering online. http://www.eaieducation.com/530093.html

New 4th Edition Errata at the Wizard’s site

January 20, 2009 by newbiedm

Up today at the official site, new errata for all the books, including the DM Screen, Martial Powers, Adventurer’s Vault, and the Forgotten Realms. Find it here

The Dungeon Master’s Guide 2 Cover

January 20, 2009 by newbiedm

The book isn’t available until September 15th, but here is the cover. It’s the same leggy hot chick from the PHB. Hey, Mike Mearls… give her a comic book or something, where she comes out, I don’t know, in a medieval magical bikini or something, why not? She looks like a hot gypsie.

The new D&D Minis packaging

January 16, 2009 by newbiedm

Here they are, for those of you interested. I don’t know if this is old or not, first time I’ve seen it, btw… The “Player Handbook Heroes” line. Chatter on some forums indicates these may be resculpts, I don’t know. These images come courtesy of Amazon… I’m no insider, just stumbled upon them…. BTW, the […]

Photoshop and Dungeon Tiles redux

January 15, 2009 by newbiedm

So I’ve said before that I have every dungeon tile set that Wizard’s has put out. I think they are cool, and useful. I even have multiple sets of some of them, for the big 8×10 tiles. But I’ve also said that once I buy something, it’s mine to do with as I please, as […]

NewbieDM Tutorial – Printing Battle Maps to a 1″ Scale

January 13, 2009 by newbiedm

So you’ve made yourself some kick ass tokens, but now you want to make yourself some kick ass maps to use them with. Well, you’ve come to the right place! Taking a map from the Wizard’s gallery, and converting it to a 1″ playable map isn’t very difficult, and it looks better than some Dry-Erase […]

When are there too many players in a group?

January 9, 2009 by newbiedm

So when I bought the 4th Ed. books, I was itching to play D&D. I was out of it a while, and really wanted to find a group to play with. I thought I’d be out of luck, as most of the guys I used to play with had their own things going on, and […]

Up at 3am… here’s my Encounter and Level Advancement Sheet

January 9, 2009 by newbiedm

I cooked up a quick sheet that I’m going to use to keep track of the party’s level progression based on the DMG’s 8-10 encounter rule. I’m finding it useful, I hope someone out there can use it. I left my stuff on there on purpose, so you get an idea of how it is […]