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NewbieDM Tutorial: The Battlemap Part III

November 17, 2009 by newbiedm

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 […]

NewbieDM Tutorial: The Battlemap Part II

November 11, 2009 by newbiedm

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

November 9, 2009 by newbiedm

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

November 6, 2009 by newbiedm

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 […]

Pre-Campaign Player Questionnaire

October 28, 2009 by newbiedm

Many times, we as DM’s do not have the luxury of playing with a group of people we’ve know for a long time and are comfortable with. I happen to have that luxury, playing with a group I’ve known and have been friends with for over 20 years in some cases, and haven’t had to […]

Adding a new (third) dimension to Dungeon Tiles

September 23, 2009 by newbiedm

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 […]

A group for New Dm’s on Wizbook

September 4, 2009 by newbiedm

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 […]

Improved Initiative

September 4, 2009 by newbiedm

I finally had the chance to sit down and play some D&D this week, my first post-Gencon session. We had a blast, and as my players are quickly approaching the end of the heroic tier, events in my campaign are coming to a head. A good time was had by all, even if all we […]

Gencon knick knacks for 4th Ed. D&D

August 22, 2009 by newbiedm

I wanted to share with you some of my purchases from Gencon for my 4th Ed. D&D game, with the hopes that it may help someone out there starting to play the game. 4th Ed., above all others, is in my opinion a game that lends itself very well to this type of thing, and […]

Updating DDI Compendium stat blocks the easy way

August 19, 2009 by newbiedm

I found a relatively easy way to level up your traps or monsters quickly directly from the compendium, without a need to copy and paste it over to Google Docs or anywhere else. It’s through a javascript that lets you edit web pages on the fly. First, visit this page: http://www.labnol.org/internet/design/edit-web-pages-like-wiki/3832/ Follow the instructions, it’ll […]