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Colored condition tokens
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 […]
Posted in: Gaming
So we ran our first skill challenge…
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?
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
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
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 […]
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Go kill a god in 4th Edition.
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 […]
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Newbie Dm’s Bestiarum Vocabulum
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 […]
Posted in: Advice/Tools, Gaming
About the 4th Edition Forgotten Realms…
Before you read… yes, this is a rant. 🙂 The Forgotten Realms has been the only published setting I’ve ever played in… if I wasn’t playing in the Realms, I was playing in someone’s home brewed campaign setting… I have fond memories of pulling out the poster map in the old grey box and plotting […]
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Keep on the Shadowfell final thoughts
So we managed to finish KOTS today, and I must say, a good time was had by all. I’m also proud, because as a DM, I’ve finished my first module. Today we ran the last 3 encounters in the adventure, and I had a player die in the penultimate one. One of the berserkers walloped […]
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Running Skill Challenges is a skill challenge unto itself
So this month’s Dragon has an article about running skill challenges, but I don’t subscribe to DDI. (I think this should have been free to everyone, but I digress.) So I ask all of you now, how do you handle this part of DMíng? Every 4th Ed. DM is technically a newbie Dm when it comes […]
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December 8, 2008
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