Gnome Rodeo: Evil Robots Made Me Write This in Binary

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Gnome Rodeo: These GMing Links Like Sunsets, Long Walks on the Beach

Three years ago, when I started Treasure Tables, it was in large part because outside of Roleplaying Tips, there just wasn't that much GMing material on the web -- or if there was, I couldn't find it. Now I can easily foresee a time when I won't just be able to cull the best GMing links for my Gnome Rodeos, I'll actually have to pare those down to a ...

Gnome Rodeo: Everyone’s at GenCon Edition

About half the gnomes are at GenCon, and before they took off in their fancy private jets those bastards chained me to the radiator and said, I quote, "There better be a damned Gnome Rodeo while we're gone, or there'll be...trouble." They fingered their belt buckles ominously while they said it, which I have to say brought to mind a number of unpleasant mental images. So, uh, here we ...

Gnome Rodeo: Put That in Your Gnome and Smoke It

My wife, Alysia, and I are going to see Pineapple Express this weekend. All of a sudden this week's title makes sense, right? Gnome Rodeos are our regular link roundups. Provided everyone doesn't simultaneously stop talking about GMing for a week, you should see one most Fridays. GMing Regulars → Dungeon Mastering: Coming soon: the RPG Maestro newsletter, a monthly-ish newsletter Yax will use to deliver more in-depth articles. If your ...

Endless fields of sheep

I've stumbled on a number of interesting posts that I have to share with you. Pastures of Green There's been a whirlwind of cool new settings and thought about settings out there recently. I can't imagine what would have everybody scrambling to update and create new worlds. Well, maybe if I stretch myself I can think of something... Troy here at the Stew has a couple of posts about Remaking ...

Gnomalicious Gname Mastering Gnoodlings

It's really too bad I couldn't think of a synonym for "mastering" that started with an N, isn't it? Gnome Rodeos are our regular link roundups. Provided everyone doesn't simultaneously stop talking about GMing for a week, you should see one most Fridays. GMing Regulars → Dungeon Mastering: DMing.com celebrates its first birthday! Yax's site remains one of my favorite RPG blogs, and comes highly recommended. From this week, try this: ...

Gnome Stewart Will Strangle You in Your Sleep with GMing Links

Meet Gnome Stewart: Look at those dead, soulless eyes, their thousand-yard stare aimed firmly at a point just above your right ear. The sickly, greyish skin (which I completely failed to capture here, but trust me: he's grey-green). And the flowers, mother of god, the flowers. Does he carry them to remind him of the days before he started sniffing glue, when he still had a sense of smell? To ...

Gnome Rodeo: Special Early and Late Edition

It's early because it's Thursday, not Friday, but also late because I didn't do a rodeo last week. It's special because it contains a metric ass-ton of GMing links (the metric ass-ton, of course, is an official gnomish unit of measure...). Gnome Rodeos are our regular link roundups. Provided everyone doesn't simultaneously stop talking about GMing for a week, you should see one most Fridays. GMing Regulars → Dungeon Mastering: Yax ...

Gnome Rodeo: Link Me Amadeus

Okay, I write one little bastardized lyric for a title, and suddenly I'm picturing eighties music videos with gnomes in them... Gnome Rodeos are our regular link roundups. Provided everyone doesn't simultaneously stop talking about GMing for a week, you should see one most Fridays. GMing Regulars → Dungeon Mastering: You should give your GM

Gnome Rodeo: Lust for Links

Instead of, ahem, resting your eyes at your desk this fine Friday, why not check out some GMing links? Gnome Rodeos are our regular link roundups. Provided everyone doesn't simultaneously stop talking about GMing for a week, you should see one most Fridays. GMing Regulars → Dungeon Mastering: Yax gathers up past articles and PDFs on starting up a new campaign and looks at the six As of DMing. They're good ...

Gnome Rodeo: Pardon Me, But Do You Have Any GMing Links?

It's been a great week for GMing content on the web, and the highlights are coming your way in 3...2...1... Gnome Rodeos are our regular link roundups. Provided everyone doesn't simultaneously stop talking about GMing for a week, you should see one most Fridays. GMing Regulars → Dungeon Mastering: For this week, Yax talks about Why you should never use pre-made adventures as your main storyline (I strongly agree based on ...

Gnome Rodeo: Did You Know All Gnomes Wear Cufflinks?

It's Friday in Gnomeville (well, everywhere actually), and you know what that means: GMing links! Gnome Rodeos are our regular link roundups. Provided everyone doesn't simultaneously stop talking about GMing for a week, you should see one most Fridays. GMing Regulars → Dungeon Mastering: Yax has been quiet because he's been unveiling DMing.com's new design and crossing his 300-article milestone (go, Yax!), but he had time to post about innovation parties ...

Gnome Rodeo: We’ve Got Links Like Satan’s Golf Course

Friday! Glee! GMing links! Gnome Rodeos are our regular link roundups. Provided everyone doesn't simultaneously stop talking about GMing for a week, you should see one most Fridays. GMing Regulars → Musings of the Chatty DM: I don't think I'm smart enough to entirely get Chatty’s Debates: Black Box vs Process-Response design, but it has useful things to say about a fundamental difference between types of game mechanics. → Roleplaying Tips: Issue ...

Gnome Rodeo: More Links than a Sausage Golem

So...it's Friday and you'd rather be reading gaming stuff than working, right? Put on your pink cowboy hat and enjoy our first Gnome Rodeo (or link roundup, if you prefer the boring term). GMing Regulars → Dungeon Mastering: Wish you were reading more RSS feeds about gaming? Holy crap does Yax read a lot of feeds! I feel inadequate. → Musings of the Chatty DM: Chatty delves into ways to handle a ...

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