Award-Winning GMing Advice
Gnome Stew won the silver ENnie Award for Best Blog in
2011 and
2010 -- thank you for your support! Online since 2008, we've published
1,183 articles packed with GMing tips and advice, as well as
two books for GMs. Our
top 30 articles make a great starting point for new readers.
"I check Gnome Stew every day." -- Monte Cook
"fantastic blog for game masters, dungeon masters, and rpg fans" -- Wil Wheaton
"If you aren’t reading Gnome Stew, you’re missing out." -- Wolfgang Baur
The Stew has teamed up with Fear the Boot and Engine Publishing to bring you a charity auction to support the March of Dimes!
We've put together what we think is a pretty awesome package of goodies for this auction:
One copy of Eureka in softcover, plus the PDF.
One of the final copies of Masks in hardcover, plus the PDF.
Be a gnome or command a gnome: Either write the first-ever ...
Imagine, if you will, a geek dad who has a lot on his plate who knew that Gnome Stew's 1,000th article was fast approaching, but kind of lost sight of it over the past few days.
And imagine that on that fateful day that fellow posted a request for Gnome Stew readers to help our book, Masks, get nominated for a Golden Geek Award...and totally didn't catch that that ...
If you've been waiting for Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game -- Gnome Stew's second book -- to come back into stock, your wait has ended!
You can now order Masks in print (with a free PDF copy) from the Engine Publishing online store.
It's also available as a standalone PDF, as well as in a package deal with our first book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire ...
If you've been waiting for the standalone PDF edition of our latest book, Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game, your wait is over!
Order the Masks PDF directly from Engine Publishing
Order Masks from DriveThruRPG
We've also made the Masks PDF available in a bundle with our first book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, for 20% off:
Order Masks and Eureka for 20% off from Engine Publishing
Order ...
Please vote for Gnome Stew in the 2011 ENnies!
Gnome Stew was nominated for Best Blog in the 2011 GenCon EN World RPG Awards (the "ENnies"), and we have our beady gnomish eyes on the gold.
Voting is open to anyone, takes 30 seconds or less, requires no registration or other bullshit, and ends today. We would greatly appreciate your vote!
Here's how to vote:
Visit the ENnies voting page
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Update: Preorders of Masks are now sold out!
I need to make a couple of changes to the preorder process for our newest book, Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game. I'll explain the changes first, then the reasons behind them.
Here's what's changing:
The hardcover edition will now be a limited print run
There will only be two opportunities to buy the hardcover edition: by preordering it from Engine Publishing ...
Gnome Stew is nominated for Best Blog in the 2011 GenCon EN World RPG Awards (the "ENnies"), and I would like to ask for your support: Please vote for Gnome Stew!
Voting takes about 30 seconds, is open to everyone, and doesn't require registration or any other fiddly stuff. You can vote in just the Best Blog category, if you like, and voting is open through July 24th.
It's this ...
When the 2011 ENnie Award nominees were announced last Friday, we were floored to see that Gnome Stew was one of them. For the second year in a row, the Stew has been nominated for Best Blog.
Congratulations to all of the nominees! I see fantastic products in every category, including a number I'm unfamiliar with and now want to check out.
Special congratulations to our fellow Best Blog nominees ...
After 10 months of development and hundreds of hours of work by a team of 22 people on three continents, I'm pleased to announce that Gnome Stew's second book, Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game, is now available for preorder!
Preorder Masks directly from Engine Publishing
If you'd like to learn more about this monster tome (a 336-page hardcover!), check out reviews and previews, and get the details ...
Hmm, this package is suspiciously book-shaped!
What could be inside? Why, it's the printer's proof for Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game!
Look at the spine on this beast! It's gigantic!
Here's a two-page spread featuring the artwork of Chris Reach:
...and another featuring the artwork of Avery Liell-Kok:
For good measure, how does Masks stack up (hah!) against our first book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, and ...
This will be our final preview of Gnome Stew's upcoming second book, Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCS for Any Roleplaying Game. If you haven't checked out the other previews yet, fear not: this one collects all of them, as well as providing new material.
If you've been curious about Masks -- and I hope you are! -- this article also includes vital stats (page count, etc.), a status update, and ...
Gnome Stew's second book, Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game, will be available for preorder soon -- but in the meantime, let's do another preview!
Our first two free previews presented six fantasy villains and six sci-fi allies. The fantasy preview also included a wealth of general info about the book, and in a third piece we revealed the author of the foreword.
This time around, let's take ...
We're really gathering steam on our second book now: Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game has its own product page on the Engine Publishing website, we've announced that Wolfgang Baur wrote the foreword, we've shared the cover, and the first sample PDF is now available.
Hey, make that the first TWO sample PDFs, because here's the second one: Masks preview #2: Sci-fi NPCs! Like the first preview, ...
With his excellent foreword off to layout, I'm thrilled to be able to announce that Wolfgang Baur, gaming industry legend and the man behind Kobold Quarterly and Open Design, is the Mystery Author of the foreword for Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game!
Wolfgang is one of the best-known names in gaming, with credits stretching back more than two decades. You've probably read his work, and if ...
Hello. I wanted to let everyone know that myself, John Arcadian, and Matt Neagley were interviewed on the ENnie award winning podcast, Atomic Array (Episode 56), and the episode is now available directly from their site or on iTunes. Ed and Rone were great hosts and we had a great time chatting with them. So download the episode, break out your headphones, and give us a listen.
What? You ...
