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The PHB2 Table of Contents is up… and the newbiedm.com domain name is as well…

March 3, 2009 by newbiedm

The PHB2 table of contents was released by WOTC yesterday. I haven’t read much about it, so I figured I’d post it here just in case. Regardless, you can find it here. Chapter 1. Character Races (Deva, Gnome, Goliath, Half-Orc, Shifter) Chapter 2. Classes (Avenger, Barbarian, Bard, Druid, Invoker, Shaman, Sorcerer, Warden) Chapter 3. Character […]

Modifying the way I track conditions

March 2, 2009 by newbiedm

So after using my paper condition tokens, I switched over to Alea Tools because they are probably the best thing out there right now for the 4th ed. DM looking for a solution to the game’s bookkeeping. I also use them for Ranger’s Quarry’s, Paladin’s Divine Challenges, etc… But last session I did something different with […]

The Dungeon Master’s Guide 2 Cover

January 20, 2009 by newbiedm

The book isn’t available until September 15th, but here is the cover. It’s the same leggy hot chick from the PHB. Hey, Mike Mearls… give her a comic book or something, where she comes out, I don’t know, in a medieval magical bikini or something, why not? She looks like a hot gypsie.

NewbieDM Tutorial – Printing Battle Maps to a 1″ Scale

January 13, 2009 by newbiedm

So you’ve made yourself some kick ass tokens, but now you want to make yourself some kick ass maps to use them with. Well, you’ve come to the right place! Taking a map from the Wizard’s gallery, and converting it to a 1″ playable map isn’t very difficult, and it looks better than some Dry-Erase […]

So we ran our first skill challenge…

December 2, 2008 by newbiedm

First off, I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving on Thursday, and a great long weekend. I was able to gather the group on Sunday for our game, and almost everyone managed to make it… if everyone who plays were to show up for a session, I would be running 9 guys at the table!!! (YIKES!)… We had […]

Minions… Broken?

November 25, 2008 by newbiedm

I recently wrote about a lack of minion creation rules in 4th Edition, and now, in the latest official D&D podcast, minions are brought up. One of the hosts answers a question about feedback received from players, and what he feels isn’t working in 4th Ed. He goes on to say he’s “dubious” about minions, and he talks about […]

Go kill a god in 4th Edition.

November 20, 2008 by newbiedm

So one of the big ticket items in Draconomicon is new rules regarding gods in 4th Ed. More specifically, rules for fighting and killing them. The book includes stats for Tiamat, patron of chromatic dragons. The stats take up almost 2 columns on a page. Each head gets a stat block, along with the main […]

About the 4th Edition Forgotten Realms…

November 15, 2008 by newbiedm

Before you read… yes, this is a rant. 🙂 The Forgotten Realms has been the only published setting I’ve ever played in… if I wasn’t playing in the Realms, I was playing in someone’s home brewed campaign setting… I have fond memories of pulling out the poster map in the old grey box and plotting […]

Keep on the Shadowfell final thoughts

November 9, 2008 by newbiedm

So we managed to finish KOTS today, and I must say, a good time was had by all. I’m also proud, because as a DM, I’ve finished my first module. Today we ran the last 3 encounters in the adventure, and I had a player die in the penultimate one. One of the berserkers walloped […]

Running Skill Challenges is a skill challenge unto itself

November 7, 2008 by newbiedm

So this month’s Dragon has an article about running skill challenges, but I don’t subscribe to DDI. (I think this should have been free to everyone, but I digress.) So I ask all of you now, how do you handle this part of DMíng? Every 4th Ed. DM is technically a newbie Dm when it comes […]