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NewbieDM Review: Portrait of a Villain – The Desire by Nevermet Press

December 16, 2009 by newbiedm

Nevermet Press is a publisher of RPG material, made up of the RPG community at large. In their own words: Nevermet Press is a creative collective made up of scores of writers, artists, and game designers. We are a herd of gaming cats and dogs, running aimlessly from topic to topic. We leave sweet creativity […]

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 […]

Warstories: Having a pool of characters

December 4, 2009 by newbiedm

Warstories is the name I gave to a short series of articles meant to spark discussions and advice amongst DM’s and players. With the series, I hope to tackle common problems that crop up during the game, and see how other people deal with them at their table. This is the fifth of such articles. […]

Win a copy of “Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons”

November 30, 2009 by newbiedm

I love contests, and I love giving stuff away, that’s why NewbieDM.com has teamed up with Gator Games to give away a copy of Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons! All you have to do to enter the contest is follow both @newbiedm and @gatorgames on twitter, send us a tweet telling us that it’s for the contest, […]

Applying “Subdual Encounters” to Encounters vs. Solos

November 30, 2009 by newbiedm

I was reading the section on encounters with dragons in the new Draconomicon book, and something stood out: At its simplest, a subdual encounter is one in which the dragon stops fighting and the characters win when the dragon is bloodied. But the degree of the victory matters, so you will need to keep track […]

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 […]

Just a newbie dm after all

November 20, 2009 by newbiedm

So this past week we had another session. We usually play every other Wednesday, which is really not a lot of gaming time a year if you think about it. 26 times a year, give or take, remove a few for those days that you just can’t make it and what? We’re looking at […]

Gaming Pics!

November 19, 2009 by newbiedm

I have never posted gaming pics before, so tonight I snapped some pictures of our session. We were missing two players tonight, but that’s okay, you’re getting the most photogenic of the bunch, myself at the top of the list. The newbiedm shirt you see one guy wearing was made by my wife for all […]

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 […]