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Steal Smart: The Series
The other day on Twitter I put a call out looking for reader written articles for the blog. I figured I’d let other gamers who may not have a blog of their own have a place to present their ideas and writings, and hopefully help all of us new DM’s in the process, by giving […]
Quick lessons from the Heroic tier, and looking ahead…
As my campaign progresses, we are quickly approaching the conclusion of the heroic tier of adventuring. In fact, on our next session, I expect the pc’s to be almost at the threshold between tiers, and if that’s the case, I’ll just bump them up to paragon. My justification in doing so is simple: one, because […]
Adding a new (third) dimension to Dungeon Tiles
Today I have another post on Dungeon Tiles, following yesterday’s article. This one will be short, as I haven’t quite tested it out in actual play. I posted a few pictures on my twitter account, which I’ll post here, where I try to add a 3d element to my Dungeon Tiles. Next gaming session I […]
Playing with my Dungeon Tiles
I’ve been taking a look at my box of Dungeon Tiles lately, and realizing they aren’t getting much use. Normally, I tend to find maps I like online, be it from Wizard’s Map a Week archive, Dungeon magazine, or published modules, scale them up in Photoshop and print them out at a 1″ scale. This […]
What’s cool about the DMG2?
The Dungeon Master’s Guide 2 is a great book. Go get it. Go buy it today. That’s my review. There you go. Now, if you want to read about what to expect in the book that’s of benefit to new DM’s, well, then you’ve come to the right place. This book is in many ways […]
Something Old, Something New: Great DM’s
The other day on Twitter, Phil the Chatty DM suggested a series where we each write about a topic and we’d see how our views compare, taking into account my one-year experience as a DM versus his twenty-five years. I though it was an interesting idea, because I’m inclined to believe that many of the […]
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1d12 questions with James Wyatt
I took the ol’ d12 out for another spin, this time to interview Mr. James Wyatt, D&D Design Manager at Wizard’s of the Coast, as well as an author of several Eberron novels. Tomorrow sees the release of the Dungeon Master’s Guide 2, and who better to interview from the D&D team than the author […]
NewbieDM turns a year old today!
A quick post to say that my little blog turns a year old today. In all honesty, I never expected it to last more than a few weeks, given my lack of attention span, but here we are. It’s my sincere hope that I’ve at least helped out one or two of you new dm’s […]
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Skill Challenges… yet again…
This may be like my 5th post about this topic. I’m not sure why the thought of skill challenges reared its ugly head yet again as I was sitting at work, but I thought of something that hadn’t occurred to me. While the DMG urges you to lay out the challenge to your players (as […]
A group for New Dm’s on Wizbook
I hate to spam my own site with this sort of stuff, but perhaps some of you new dm’s out there may be interested. I’ve gone ahead and created a group dedicated to us noobs over at the Wizard’s Community site, lovingly nicknamed Wizbook. The group is called ‘The New DM’s Group’ (very vanilla, yet […]
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October 2, 2009
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