Welcome to Gnome Stew!

Gnome Stew is a multi-author blog about tabletop RPG game mastering, written by GMs, for GMs. We think about GMing in every waking moment (okay, GMing and hot, hot gnome sex meals), so we figured we’d put our obsession to good use.

Here on the Stew, it’s all game mastering, all the time, from system-neutral GMing advice and ideas to system-specific suggestions to help make running your games easier and more fun.

That focus has helped to make this the most widely read blog dedicated exclusively to GMing on the planet — we hope you enjoy it!

The Gnomes

You can read a little bit about the authors of Gnome Stew over on the Meet the Gnomes page. Martin Ralya is the Head Gnome, and fields questions and feedback about the site at: martin(AT)gnomestew(DOT)com.

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Posting Schedule

There are three things everyone knows about gnomes: We’re short, we’re lazy and we’re all Chaotic Neutral. It’s a lesser-known fact that we don’t have a posting schedule, but we’re doing our part to spread the word. (Rest assured that there will be plenty to read here every week.)

Acknowledgements

The Gnome Stew logo was created by Darren Hardy, who is made of pure awesome.

Kudos to the free (or cheap) and awesome stuff that lets us bring you Gnome Stew:

Blogging: We blog with WordPress. Gnome Stew’s theme is a customized version of Grid Focus by Derek Punsalan of 5thirtyone.com. FeedBurner keeps our RSS and email feeds all groomed and pretty.

Hosting: Gnome Stew rocks on DreamHost. (Need hosting yourself? Use that link when you sign up with DreamHost, and Gnome Stew gets several months of free hosting at no cost to you.)

Plugins: We heart Akismet, Exec-PHP, FeedBurner FeedSmith, Feed Count, Get Recent Comments, No Self Pings, Random Redirect, Register Plus, ShareThis, Subscribe To Comments, WP Ajax Edit Comments, WP-Cache and Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. (This list might not be completely up to date.)

In the Beginning

We launched Gnome Stew on May 12th, 2008, with a bit over 60 registered members and 250 RSS and email feed subscribers. Thank you to everyone who has joined, subscribed, read and spread the word about the Stew.