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Reader Voicemail: Building an Adventure

March 9, 2010 by newbiedm

The response to the voicemail has been pretty fantastic so far, and there’s probably no way that I’ll be able to take advantage of all the voicemails that have come in through a podcast alone, so I thought I’d create a new section for the site called “Reader Voicemail”, where I’ll write an answer, rather […]

On podcasting…

March 3, 2010 by newbiedm

I have two podcast related things to share with readers of Newbiedm.com today. One is that Phil the Chatty DM, Dave Chalker from Critical Hits, and I are launching a DM related podcast. The podcast will be called “The Dungeon Master Guys” and will focus on DM issues only, which means you won’t get the […]

Win all 3 sets of the Arcane Heroes minis

March 1, 2010 by newbiedm

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EDIT: THE WINNER WAS RANDOMLY SELECTED FROM THE COMBINED ENTRY OF TWITTER ENTRIES AND MESSAGES LEFT HERE… THE WINNER IS… Bargle – March 1, 2010 at 4:37 pm —————————————— Do you like Arcane spellcasters? Do you like them when they are about 25mm tall, and they can be used in your D&D game? Well so […]

Hating the sound of my voice…

March 1, 2010 by newbiedm

Just a quick post to plug two things… I had the chance to join in on a discussion of the “Underdark” book over at “The Tome Show” podcast with the show’s host, Jeff Greiner and two additional guests, Mark from Dice Monkey and Chris from Icosahedrophilia. Go check it out if you want to hear […]

New DM’s: Have fun reskinning and playing with keywords

February 26, 2010 by newbiedm

One aspect of D&D 4th Ed. that I like a lot is its simplicity in letting you make the game as customized as you want, both rules wise and story/role-playing wise. The other day on twitter I went as far as calling it “possibly the most abstract D&D yet”, and some people didn’t really […]

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.

Homemade condition cards

February 23, 2010 by newbiedm

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. […]

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 […]

West End Games is dead, long live West End Games

February 9, 2010 by newbiedm

I am a huge fan of the West End Games Star Wars d6 game. In fact, if I got two calls on the same day, one with a D&D invite, and one with a d6 Star Wars invite, I’d most likely choose to play Star Wars. That’s how much I like it, but unfortunately it’s […]