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One day we’ll make our own D&D miniatures

January 5, 2009 by newbiedm

The future of manufacturing is here. Sort of. This may be old news to some of you, but I saw this today and was blown away. Mark my words, within the next 15 years, protecting Autocad files from internet piracy will be all the buzz. Imagine torrents of CAD files for the D&D miniatures, then […]

Finally a new post… Ringing in the New Year with a skill challenge!

January 4, 2009 by newbiedm

And I’m back. The holidays are always a busy time for me, with two little kids, family, friends, the house full of people, my anniversary and my wife’s birthday all bunched up at the same time. But I survived, so it’s time to start blogging again. This Saturday we are playing again, and I’m having […]

Isle of Dread now exists in the Feywild!

December 16, 2008 by newbiedm

So I was skimming my copy of the Manual of the Planes, which WOTC released today, and was pleasantly surprised to discover a few old-school things in there… The Isle of Dread! It exists within the Feywild. Nice! Spelljammers… I was never a fan of these helm-driven ships, but can appreciate TSR-lovin’ when I see […]

Colored condition tokens

December 8, 2008 by newbiedm

Reader “Nariah” was kind enough to take my rather bland condition tokens and create colored versions of them, to really make them stand out at the table. Nice work! If you aren’t sure how to use these, they are meant to be placed under your miniature or token when a condition affects them. Very simple […]

So we ran our first skill challenge…

December 2, 2008 by newbiedm

First off, I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving on Thursday, and a great long weekend. I was able to gather the group on Sunday for our game, and almost everyone managed to make it… if everyone who plays were to show up for a session, I would be running 9 guys at the table!!! (YIKES!)… We had […]

Minions… Broken?

November 25, 2008 by newbiedm

I recently wrote about a lack of minion creation rules in 4th Edition, and now, in the latest official D&D podcast, minions are brought up. One of the hosts answers a question about feedback received from players, and what he feels isn’t working in 4th Ed. He goes on to say he’s “dubious” about minions, and he talks about […]

NewbieDM Tutorial – Counters, Tokens, or Pogs

November 22, 2008 by newbiedm

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Welcome to what is by far the most popular post on NewbieDM. More than 20000 (!) of you have made your own tokens for use in your games, and I’m thankful that I’ve been able to help DM’s out there run a better D&D game. I invite you to take a look around the […]

Newbie Dm’s Bestiarum Vocabulum – The Airship Pirate Captain

November 21, 2008 by newbiedm

I am bored in a hotel room, reading a copy of Adventurer’s Vault, so bear with me. I read the entry on airships and thought of pirates. It’s late, so he may not be all that well designed, but a bad pirate trumps a non-existing pirate in my book… 🙂 He’d rather fight only if […]

Go kill a god in 4th Edition.

November 20, 2008 by newbiedm

So one of the big ticket items in Draconomicon is new rules regarding gods in 4th Ed. More specifically, rules for fighting and killing them. The book includes stats for Tiamat, patron of chromatic dragons. The stats take up almost 2 columns on a page. Each head gets a stat block, along with the main […]

Newbie Dm’s Bestiarum Vocabulum

November 18, 2008 by newbiedm

Ok, so tonight I want to introduce what I hope is a semi-regular feature here at NewbieDM, some home-made monsters. Just as a warning though, I don’t claim to be a great monster designer, nor am I 100% comfortable with the monster making mechanics in the DMG, I’m just doing what I have to do […]