Category: Gnome Gnews
| May 16, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Preorders for our next book, Odyssey: The Complete Game Master’s Guide to Campaign Management, will be opening on June 3, and we want you to be able to check out the book before deciding whether to preorder. You can now download a free 9-page PDF preview of Odyssey that includes the cover, table of contents, introduction, and opening section. This should give you a good idea of what topics the book covers and how it approaches them. The initial announcement of Odyssey also offers some…
| May 12, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Five years ago today, Gnome Stew went live with 10 articles and around 250 RSS subscribers. In that five years we’ve published around 1,400 articles, had 1.7 million visitors, drawn 25,000 comments, won three ENnie Awards and an RPG Site of the Year Award, and published three GMing books (soon to be four). The Stew has gone places and done things I never expected. We’ve had some downs, but it’s been mostly ups — and the ups have been pretty damned awesome. And much of…
| April 30, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Gnome Stew won the 2013 RPG Site of the Year award! Many thanks to you, our readers, who voted for us in the nomination round! Your voting efforts got us nominated last year as well, but the judges chose a different winner. Winning this year’s SOTY award was a fantastic surprise — and a one-time event, as winners aren’t eligible in future years. I encourage you to check out the other four SOTY finalists: Kobold Press, G*M*S Magazine, Age of Ravens, and Nearly Enough Dice.…
| April 18, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
We’ve entered the Stew for consideration in the 2013 RPG Site of the Year Awards, and if you’ve got 10 seconds to spare I’d like to ask you to vote for us. There’s no registration required; just visit this page, scroll down to the poll, select Gnome Stew, and hit Vote. Today is the only day Gnome Stew is eligible for votes. The way the SOTY Awards work several sites are posted each day for voting, and the single highest vote-getter advances to the final…
| April 1, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Too many RPGs aren’t about gnomes — and would be so much better if they were. So we’re solving that problem with our new Kickstarter, which launched this morning. Our funding goal, $632,000, will give us the funds we need to buy or license the following depressingly gnome-free RPGs and make them about gnomes: Vampire: The Requiem Technoir Call of Cthulhu Apocalypse World Dogs in the Vineyard The One Ring Dark Heresy Traveller Night’s Black Agents Cyberpunk 2020 To give you a taste of how…
| March 4, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Happy GM’s Day! GM’s Day started on EN World back in 2002, and is now in its 11th year. The date, March 4, sums it up: March Fo(u)rth for GM’s Day. Today is also the anniversary of Gary Gygax’s death in 2008, and in my mind the coincidence of those two dates, while not a happy one because I’d much rather still have Gary in the world, is fitting. He gave us a tremendous amount, gamers in general and GMs in particular. So sláinte, Gary,…
| February 22, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
As we announced last week, we’ve licensed our GMing books to Lone Wolf Development for integration into their Realm Works campaign management software, which is currently wrapping up a very successful Kickstarter campaign. The campaign is now in its final day or so, already over $120,000 ($20,000 more than their goal, so it’s fully funded). If you’re interested in getting our GMing books integrated into this system for free, you can back at or above these three levels (all of which include Realm Works itself):…
