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Just a newbie dm after all
So this past week we had another session. We usually play every other Wednesday, which is really not a lot of gaming time a year if you think about it. 26 times a year, give or take, remove a few for those days that you just can’t make it and what? We’re looking at […]
Gaming Pics!
I have never posted gaming pics before, so tonight I snapped some pictures of our session. We were missing two players tonight, but that’s okay, you’re getting the most photogenic of the bunch, myself at the top of the list. The newbiedm shirt you see one guy wearing was made by my wife for all […]
NewbieDM Tutorial: The Battlemap Part III
Here is the last part of the battlemap tutorials for NewbieDM.com, written by professional cartographer Jonathan Roberts. Click here for part 1, and here for part 2. At the end of the last tutorial we had a lovely map, though it’s a little bare. In this tutorial I’ll cover the little tweaks that will finish […]
Winner of the signed copy of “The Ghost King”
The winner of the book is Matt, with this artistic rendition of Drizzt: Congrats, Matt! And a signed copy of The Ghost King is on the way!
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NewbieDM Tutorial: The Battlemap Part II
Here is the 2nd Part of Jonathan Roberts’ battlemap series for NewbieDM.com readers. Part 1 can be found here. In the following weeks, he’ll be providing us with mapping tutorials for regional maps and world maps as well. You can visit Jonathan’s site, Fantastic Maps, to find other great examples of his work. Designing and […]
NewbieDM Tutorial: The Battlemap, a guest post by Jonathan Roberts
With this website, I’ve tried to give new DM’s out there tools, resources, and tips to run a better D&D game with. One of the things that I’ve never been able to offer before today, simply because I have no skills at it, is a robust mapping tutorial or series. So I reached out to […]
Warstories: The Game Recap
Here’s a quick thing I’m sure all DM’s do in one form or another, whether it’s via email, wiki, pen and paper, or some other form: the game recap. In my particular case, we don’t get to game as often as most of us would like, so as game recap is a great way to […]
“Dragon Age: Origins” releases today!
Yes, I know this isn’t technically tabletop RPG content, sorry RPGBN, but I think this game looks too cool for me not to blog about it. Plus, it is getting a tabletop treatment courtesy of Green Ronin, so there. Dragon Age was developed by Bioware, and they see it as the spiritual successor to the […]
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Win a signed copy of “The Ghost King” by R.A. Salvatore
I have in my possession a brand-spanking-new, hot off the presses signed copy of R.A. Salvatore’s latest Forgotten Realms novel, “The Ghost King”, part 3 of the “Transitions” series. You, dear NewbieDM.com reader, can win the book! The contest is simple, send me an email with the best hand drawn sketch you can come up […]
To Fudge or Not to Fudge, That is the Question
I brought up a topic on Twitter recently that spawned a number of replies and let to an interesting discussion. I asked if DM’s mostly rolled out in the open, or behind the screen. A good number of DM’s seem to roll their dice in front of their players, which is what I personally do. […]
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November 20, 2009
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