Category: Gaming Trends
| July 20, 2010 | Posted by Troy E. Taylor |
During a break at the Saturday Gaming Group’s last session, I brought up the notion of doing a steampunk campaign when the current Steffenhold campaign reached a natural stopping point.* Save for one other member of the table, I got a round of quizzical expressions. “Steampunk? What’s that?” I was surprised. I really thought the genre of brass goggle-wearing adventurers and steam-chugging flying contraptions was more widely understood. No matter, it was an excellent chance to share with them, by example, what steampunk can be.**…
| April 22, 2010 | Posted by John Arcadian |
One issue I always have when I’m on the players’ side of the table is with common world and game knowledge. How much does my character actually know about the monsters or magic in the world he lives in? Does my character know in-depth info about the political structures of the megacorp he is working against, or just that they have them like any large company? Will saying that having basic knowledge of the sort he could obtain in his home village mean the GM…
| April 9, 2010 | Posted by Don Mappin |
We finish up our coverage of the release of the iPad and potential application at your gaming table, now with Gnome-O-Vision! It’s one thing to tell you about some of the things that the iPad can do, quite another to show it to you via Gnome Stew’s inaugural YouTube account.
| April 7, 2010 | Posted by Don Mappin |
In this second installment of the features and utility of the iPad in tabletop gaming, we’ll spend some time on accessories, the true “killer app” for the device, and what your typical in-game workflow could look like. Read on!
| April 5, 2010 | Posted by Don Mappin |
In case you hadn’t heard, Apple released another life-changing device this weekend, the near-mythical iPad. There exist any number of reviews that can answer your general questions as to whether the iPad has a place in your life, but fortunately for you our crack team of gnome engineers have been putting the device through its paces and show how the iPad might change the way you run your role-playing games!
| March 24, 2010 | Posted by Scott Martin |
I know that I’m a little out of the loop on a lot of things. When did we as roleplayers sign on to loving indexes? I don’t hate indexes, let me put that out there right away. (Put down those pitchforks!) I love them, particularly in cookbooks. But I rarely use an index, and don’t often miss it when it’s absent. On the other hand, I know a lot of reviewers make a big deal about indexes: Martin’s reviews here on the Stew let you…
| March 4, 2010 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
It’s March fourth, and you know what that means: we all march fo(u)rth for GM’s Day! Happy GM’s Day from all of us gnomes, from the bottom of our grubby gnomish hearts* — GMs of the world, you rock! This year, we’re officially lame: We’re so insanely busy getting all of our ducks in the row for the upcoming release of our first book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters (announced last weekend), that we’re pulling long nights after long days and have…
