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A group for new DM's to meet and share tips, tricks, and suggestions on how best to run a Dungeons and Dragons game.

Share with other DM's your insight, and learn how others are playing the game.

At first, DM'ing can be hard, so why not join others on the same boat as you?

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What is an Adventure Company? February 08, 10 : 10:54 PM EST
	DnDGamer
	Does anyone know where to find the rules about how to create an adventure company? Is it worth the time?

New Group Help February 05, 10 : 09:00 PM EST
	im_a_roc
	After begging my parents for quite some time, I've managed to convince them to help pay for the D&D core rule book box set. I have pretty eff ... more

Fustration! February 03, 10 : 05:14 PM EST
	simonebane
	So, I've started to run my first game with the 4e rules. Not sure where to start I decided to use the scales of war campaign setting. my prob ... more

One of the top 5 groups on ... January 29, 10 : 02:52 PM EST
	_NewbieDM_
	I just found out that this is one of the top 5 Groups on the Wizard's community site, and it was singled out at D&D Experience yesterday as a ... more

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Virgin Dungeon Master Feb 4th, 2010 - 11:57pm

Last Post By: HishamEQ

If you really want to go low tech (no laptop) I'd recommend the following: This has a handy combat reference sheet on this page. You can find a link on that page (and elsewhere), but I highly recommend getting basic power cards also printed up fo

Planes, Trains, and... well, actually, just a Train I guess Feb 4th, 2010 - 11:46am

Last Post By: -marx-

Yo can say that the binding that holds the elemental was damage by the explosion would be the simplest and the train has to be stopped at the next station

Characters who want to develop other skills Feb 2nd, 2010 - 9:16am

Last Post By: kingxizor

I am looking for that document on Scribd.com and I can't find it. Do you know the name of the document? Thanks.

Fumble Feb 1st, 2010 - 8:30am

Last Post By: hjs102

Generally I let them reroll if they have a power that let's them do so. However, if they still fail with the reroll they still take the penaly for the fumble. That way fumbles still pose a danger to them even though they can reroll it, but it does al

Photo printing Dungeon Tiles Jan 19th, 2010 - 1:24pm

Last Post By: Conzy

I just bought a colorprinter for 400 DKK... It's about 80$(But it's also about 40% taxes in this damn country), but I saw some of same quality to about half of that... The one I chose is a lot faster, hence the price... But it prints out normal A4 pa

Avoidance of OP Jan 17th, 2010 - 7:16pm

Last Post By: HishamEQ

Deschain made some great points. I'm also in the camp of not running a PC while I DM. The story focus, decisions, and actions should be on the player end. It'll be bad if your guy starts to outshine the group, and worse if the group sees the characte

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Hi i am trying to start regular dnd games with my freinds, but i was wondering if i could have any ideas to make the game more enjoyable for them. I already have the 3 core rule books but i do need some help. Should i start with a pre published adventure and add my own things onto it or should i try to make my own world? I don't have the money for minis how could i do combat without them?
I also have a problem everyone wants to be a striker and no one wants to do any thing else. I even have a fighter who refuses to go 1 handed. So those are my questions plese respond.
- chris

heie44

February 07, 2010
11:25 PM EST

Does anyone use a fumble rule and if so how do you conduct it concerning magic?

simonebane

January 30, 2010
12:13 PM EST

Hey this is a shout out to all D&D Fans in Australia to check out D&D Aus!!!
It is a group dedicated to D&D in Aus!
Feel free to join via my home page!

klosec12

January 12, 2010
04:10 AM EST

I'm not new to DMing, I've been playing D&D and acting as Dungeon Master for about... 7 years now? But I think that a group like this still has a lot to offer to anybody who wants to run a great game of D&D. :)

I look forward to reading tips as well as getting help for my various D&D campaigns. And I'll happily offer some advice where I feel I can as well. :D

~Mark/Anlath

PrinceMark

December 27, 2009
01:44 PM EST

I have a couple of questions i would like help with. First, if a character has multiple ongoing effects (say 3 ongoing 5 fire damage), does one save stop them all or do they have to roll 3 times and can they roll for all three at the end of the round? Second, when using the DMG to create an encounter I was looking at the Dragons den encounter and it said that a hard encounter would be an n+3 solo for a 5 person party. I have 5 7th level characters, but pitting them against a level 9 solo (bloodkiss beholder) would be lambs to the slaughter. they would not last more than 10 rounds. Am I missing something. We have an invoker, a warrior, a wizard, a rougue (ranged attacks), and a warlock.

irishrover1969

December 24, 2009
11:33 AM EST