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NewbieDM Reviews: Essentials Monster Vault, DM’s Kit, and The City Dungeon Tiles

November 16, 2010 by newbiedm

I wanted to do a quick review on these Essentials product, and throw my hat in the ring although you can find tons of reviews and unboxings elsewhere online for all of them. I’ll preface this review by saying that I really like what Wizards of the Coast is doing with the Essentials line, and […]

The Powers That Be

November 10, 2010 by newbiedm

One of my biggest gripes about 4e has always been in the presentation of it, and specifically the presentation of powers. Now I’m not saying that I dislike the power system of 4e, on the contrary, I find it to be a great way to spice up the otherwise boring attack, repeat, attack treadmills of […]

The Home Encounters world map

November 6, 2010 by newbiedm

Some of you may now that I’ve got this side project going called 4e Home Encounters, with Gamefiend from the At-Will Blog, Mark Meredith from the Dice Monkey Blog and Tim Hely working on the cartography (he’s producing the battle maps, not this particular map). I wanted to show you the world map and make […]

Warstories: Feeding the tip jar

November 1, 2010 by newbiedm

While perusing through the AD&D 1e Dungeon Master’s Guide’s introduction, I read a few interesting things. One was the amount of hyping that Gygax did to “official” AD&D products, and how you should not pay attention to 3rd party stuff. I found this comical because of the amount of grief people give WOTC about being […]

A new Episode of the “Dungeon Master Guys” is out

October 18, 2010 by newbiedm

It’s hard to believe we’ve reached Episode 6 of the Dungeon Master Guys, the podcast I co-host with Phil “ChattyDM” Menard and Dave “The Game” Chalker both from the Critical-Hits website. I (admittedly) haven’t done a great job publicizing the show too much on this site, but you really need to check it out. It’s […]

Win a copy of the new D&D Essentials Rules Compendium

October 18, 2010 by newbiedm

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Random.org has selected Jeff S. as the winner of this giveaway! Congratulations Jeff! Everyone else, thanks for entering, and be on the lookout for future contests! —————- I wrote a bit about the D&D Essentials Rules Compendium and I really believe that it is a book that having multiple copies of at the table is […]

Warstories: Play Your Guy Right!

October 13, 2010 by newbiedm

It seems I started a little bit of a mess on twitter recently by tweeting this: “What I want to see more of now in #dnd are builds for character classes that break the roles, like the slayer did & the ranger will as well. I want role to be a choice, not a label […]

Running with the Red Box

October 7, 2010 by newbiedm

I had the chance to run a game last night using the new Essentials Red Box adventure. I ran the game over Gametable with some fine folks from the twitter #dnd community, and we used the pregens that Wizards of the Coast had made available for their Essentials Game Day. The adventure is fairly easy […]

Return of the Minicast

October 5, 2010 by newbiedm

Well… return is a harsh word, as the Minicast never went away, it was just on a summer break. But it’s back, so all is right in the world now, call off the search and rescue. Really though, I took a break from the Minicast over the summer. I had a lot of stuff going […]

Another Giveaway for Dungeon Tiles Master Set

October 4, 2010 by newbiedm

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EDIT: After gathering all the entries and twitter messages, Random.org determined that the winner of this giveaway was “dnd_widow”! Congratulations, and a big thanks to all for entering! We are going to have more contests soon, so be on the lookout for that later this month! ———————————————————- Because Gator Games is so freakin’ awesome, and […]