Category: Crock Pot
| July 6, 2012 | Posted by Matthew J. Neagley |
Here are links to four rather odd maps: DanMeth’s Fantasy World Map XKCD’s Online Communities map 1 XKCD’s Online Communities map 2 ENWorld’s Interactive RPG Map All of those maps are a little silly, but fun. What I propose is that for a campaign, you use those maps. Of course, you can’t exactly send your PCs to Farmville (unless you’re playing in cyberspace I suppose) so instead, loosely interpret the theme, feel or content of the area in question, and convert it into your game.…
| June 25, 2012 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Carcosa, from Lamentations of the Flame Princess (LotFP), is a weird product. I often like weird things, and I like this one. As a physical artifact, it’s a beautiful book — easily one of the coolest looking gaming books I own. It’s subtle, understated, creepy, and its design is entirely fitting given the subject matter. What is it? Carcosa is a multi-genre sci-fi, horror, and swords & sorcery setting compatible with Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy, and by extension with most old school…
| April 16, 2012 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Gnome Stew is up for consideration in the 2012 Site of the Year awards, and I’d love it if you would vote for us. Voting takes a few seconds and requires no registration — just click the big red button on this page, select us on the poll, and vote. Today is the ONLY day to vote for Gnome Stew. They posts a new group of sites every day this week, and the top vote-getter from each day becomes a finalist. SOTY judges choose the…
| March 28, 2012 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
In preparation for the release of the upcoming DCC RPG from Goodman Games, I recently acquired a set of GameScience dice. If you’re not familiar with GameScience, Col. Lou Zocchi, or why these dice are different from the dice you’re probably used to, these two GenCon 2008 video sales pitches by the colonel himself are a good place to start: part 1, part 2. Here’s the short version: GameScience is most famous for making precision-edge dice — razor-sharp, very lightweight, and with flat faces. The…
| February 24, 2012 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
I am not offering any GMing advice today. Instead I am sharing a story from my GMing past, because I believe sharing these types of things have a real value that is hard to categorize and quantify. Take from it what you will. I had a player in my games who was notorious for always playing the loner PC. His characters were not just orphans without any close friends, but they also consistently found reasons not to be with the other PCs no matter what…
| February 20, 2012 | Posted by Guest Author |
Today’s guest article was written by Gnome Stew reader Adam Meyers, the Modern Bard. Adam is starting a third party Pathfinder supplement publishing company, but he took the time out to write this passionate piece on how RPGs can be more than just games. Thanks, Adam! Warning: This article gets into the philosophy of RPGs and mentions the ’80s. You have been warned. I’m not a first generation D&D player, but I’m a pretty close second. Back when I was a kid my dad taught…
| January 9, 2012 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Welcome to the first annual New Year, New Game challenge! New Year, New Game (NYNG for short) is a new Gnome Stew venture — an annual challenge to GMs all over the world: Run a new game this year. New Year, New Game is an idea that we hope will catch on with gamers all over the world, much like GM’s Day did (it’s celebrated on March 4th every year). It has a simple mission: To inspire game masters to run at least one new…
