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NewbieDM turns a year old today!

September 10, 2009 by newbiedm

A quick post to say that my little blog turns a year old today. In all honesty, I never expected it to last more than a few weeks, given my lack of attention span, but here we are. It’s my sincere hope that I’ve at least helped out one or two of you new dm’s […]

Skill Challenges… yet again…

September 5, 2009 by newbiedm

This may be like my 5th post about this topic. I’m not sure why the thought of skill challenges reared its ugly head yet again as I was sitting at work, but I thought of something that hadn’t occurred to me. While the DMG urges you to lay out the challenge to your players (as […]

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 […]

Advice for Newbie DM’s: The Competitor DM vs. the Storyteller DM

August 29, 2009 by newbiedm

This is a story about two different types of DM’s. One loves to DM his players through really tough and deadly encounters, pumps his fists when a player goes down, and curses when his die rolls badly. The other DM is crafting a story, and together with the players, they are all telling a great […]

PHB3 Speculation – Skill Powers (What the heck?)

August 29, 2009 by newbiedm

So the newest editorial calendar for September over at WOTC shows that on monday the 7th of September we’ll be treated to: Debut: Skill Powers PHB3. Okay. What the heck is that?! My feeble mind won’t presume to speculate, so I leave that up to you guys. I can’t wait to see what you come […]

Star Wars scroll for my SW: Dawn of Defiance game.

August 26, 2009 by newbiedm

I’ve decided to complement the current love affair I’m having with D&D with a little Star Wars gaming. I’ve been a huge fan of the SW RPG for years, from the days of the old West End Game version of the game, and having played Saga Edition at Gencon reminded me of what a fun […]

Open Game Table available as a PDF

August 25, 2009 by newbiedm

Just a quick post to let readers know that the book “Open Game Table: The Anthology of RPG Blogs” is now available as a pdf over at RPGNow. Open Game Table was released in print format last March, and now sees its first pdf release. For those of you who aren’t aware, the book is […]

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 […]

The First Annual Obligatory Post-Gencon Wrapup Post

August 17, 2009 by newbiedm

Whew. What a weekend. Okay, so I tried blogging from Indianapolis to no avail. It just wasn’t in the cards. Plenty of other people did, so you could have gotten your fix anywhere, therefore I don’t feel too bad about it. I’m going to go through the weekend, and then give you tips for your […]