Star Wars d6 via Maptool

October 9, 2011
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The other night I played in a Star Wars d6 game (run by Mark Meredith of Dice Monkey) via Google+ Hangouts.  Since I have an older PC, the experience for me was less than stellar, as G+ Hangouts uses webcams, audio, filesharing, and it all hogs too much of my resources.  Afterwards I mentioned to […]

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Cheap poster map printing

October 3, 2011
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This past week I decided to seek out other ways to print out poster maps besides just using up all my ink at home.  It turns out that printing some posters at the bog box stores wasn’t too expensive.  Check it out. I grabbed the map for the Neverwinter region that the artist Mike Schley […]

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Review: Lair Assault – Forge of the Dawn Titan

September 27, 2011
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Here there be Spoilers: Players wanting to be surprised when they play Lair Assault should steer away now! The other weekend, I sat down to judge my first session of Lair Assault – Forge of the Dawn Titan. In a sort of “slot zero” session, I had arranged for many of the DMs at my […]

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Return of the Minicast

September 20, 2011
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So once upon a time I had a podcast called the NewbieDM.com Minicast, and it was nominated for an ENnie and stuff…. and then… poof… it disappeared due to several factors. Well, I want to bring it back.  So I’m ready to start production on Season 2 of the show… It’ll be the same format, […]

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Win a copy of Madness at Gardmore Abbey

September 19, 2011
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Time to pick a winner, and random.org decided that “mbeacom” was the winner!  Congratulations and thanks for entering our giveaway!  Look for more in the near future! —————————————————————————————————— It’s time to bring back the big giveaways here at NewbieDM.com, and thanks to Gator Games, this week’s entry is huge, it’s deluxe, it’s super, it’s… Madness! […]

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Madness at Gardmore Abbey unboxing

September 18, 2011
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I wanted to do a quick unboxing of this adventure, as there seems to be some interest in seeing what’s inside the box.  This is not a review, just a very, very quick glance inside the box.  I haven’t read the contents of the adventure yet, so don’t expect that out of this video. Also, […]

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NewbieDM.com Turns 3!

September 10, 2011
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Just wanted to take the time to thank everyone who’s visited the site these past three years, it has been a blast!  Honestly, it has been a great ride and besides helping out tons of you in your DMing, the site’s been nominated for Ennies, recently passed 800,000 page views, and gave me the platform […]

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Planning Neverwinter

September 9, 2011
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One of the strengths of the Neverwinter campaign setting, as I stated in my review, is the inclusion of character themes.  Character themes were first introduced in the Dark Sun setting as a way to tie the PC’s into the world, with a ready to go plot hook for the DM to build stories around. […]

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Classics Unboxed: Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (2nd ed. AD&D)

September 2, 2011
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Continuing my series on classic boxed sets, we’ve arrived at my favorite (in my collection), the Forgotten Realms box for 2nd Ed. AD&D.  Now, it’s important to keep in mind that this is not the old grey box released in 1987 for 1st Ed. AD&D, but rather an updated version for the 2nd edition of the game.  If […]

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The Ipad DM: Goodreader

September 1, 2011
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In my previous post on this series, I wrote about Index Cards, a screenwriting app suitable for organizing details of your campaign.  Now, I’m going to show you Goodreader, the app I use for reading, organizing, marking, and making printouts of pdf’s in my gaming library.  At $4.99, it’s cheap and very useful, and I […]