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Condition cards errata

February 25, 2010 by newbiedm

I was alerted that the PRONE and DOMINATED conditions received a beating with the errata stick, so my original cards are wrong. Here are the corrected cards.

In my quest to speed up the table of players world wide (how presumptuous of me) I offer these homemade condition cards. The text will seem a bit different to you than what you may be used to, and that’s only because I wanted to stay out of trouble, but the meaning didn’t change. I […]

Couple of neat finds…

February 22, 2010 by newbiedm

Here are a couple of neat things I found that you can use in your D&D game. Enjoy! First, here’s a thieves cant dictionary. Now your Guildmaster at the Thieve’s Guild doesn’t have to sound like he came out of 2010. Let’s Kimbaw the Cull. Second, here’s a bunch of art from old books. […]

A brief video on 3d Dungeon Tiles

February 17, 2010 by newbiedm

This is a brief example on 3d Dungeon Tiles. I’ve written about this before, but now you can see them on these fancy moving pictures on my youtube channel thingy on the intertubes. I apologize in advance for the muffled sound, I have to get a better mic if I plan to keep making these […]

My 200th post, on delves and a D&D love letter

February 15, 2010 by newbiedm

So, I’ve decided what to do with the downloadable delves idea. I think I’m going to host them right on my site, with the following restrictions: No WOTC art. No WOTC monster stat blocks from books. A created stat block from the Monster Builder is okay, unless I’m told otherwise. Thumbnail images of maps created […]

Volcanic Adventure Tiles

January 19, 2010 by newbiedm

I write this post with apologies to Paul King, from the excellent Kingwork Creative Blog. The other day I was messing around on Photoshop trying to create volcanic Dungeon,- ahem- *Adventure* Tiles. It was mostly an exercise in learning a bit more on Photoshop, while also designing something I wanted for my game. After posting […]

NPC Tracker cards

December 29, 2009 by newbiedm

I was talking to one of my players today, and he casually mentioned that sometimes there were too many NPC’s to remember in my game, and note taking is not their thing… so I decided to come up with npc cards. These are simple to use. The Photoshop version has a “hole” where the portrait […]

Improved Initiative: Running combats with the Combat Manager v1.6.0

December 15, 2009 by newbiedm

This is the second part of the D&D 4e Combat Manager v1.6.0 overview. In my last post I introduced the program and highlighted how simple it was to build your permanent PC/Creatures library to use in your encounters. Now, I’ll quickly go through an actual encounter so you can see how useful this program can […]

Improved Initiative: D&D 4e Combat Manager v.1.6.0

December 8, 2009 by newbiedm

This is the third article in Improved Initiative, my series highlighting various combat trackers made for 4e. I first tested out a program called Initracker, and I liked it very much. This program I will write about in this article was brought to my attention via twitter. (As an aside, if you aren’t on twitter […]

NewbieDM Review: “Draconomic: Metallic Dragons”

November 28, 2009 by newbiedm

Ahh, Dragons… A staple of the genre, and of course, of a game with the word in its title. Once upon a time, dragons in D&D were classified as good (metallics) & bad (chromatics), but today those lines have gotten a little blurry, and that’s where this edition of the Draconomicon comes in. The book […]