Gnome Rodeos are the Stew's periodic link roundups -- articles packed with pointers to excellent GMing material we think you'll enjoy.
We usually feature a few regulars plus our favorite discoveries from around the web, all with an eye to making your time behind the screen easier and more fun.
If you wrote or read something you'd like to see featured here, drop us a line. There's some awesome stuff ...
Newbie DM, author of the killer blog of the same name, Newbie DM, emailed me about his latest project: an ultra-light mini-RPG geared towards 4- and 5-year-olds.
You can read about his system and download the free three-page PDF on his blog. The PDF includes character sheets.
The system itself is essentially mechanics for combat that turn it into a fun counting exercise for kids -- you grab some minis, ...
That's right, only 6.7 eons after our last contest -- celebrating 500 Gnome Stew articles by asking you, our readers, to contribute new taglines for the site -- we finally winnowed down the list and got them all set up.
Well, I say "we."
While we all winnowed down the list, someone else actually created the graphical versions (my good friend Darren, who did our site design) -- and the ...
Gnome Rodeos are the Stew's periodic link roundups -- articles packed with pointers to excellent GMing material we think you'll enjoy.
We usually feature a few regulars plus our favorite discoveries from around the web, all with an eye to making your time behind the screen easier and more fun.
If you wrote or read something you'd like to see featured on the Stew, drop us a line. There's some ...
Gnome Rodeos are the Stew's periodic link roundups -- articles packed with pointers to excellent GMing material we think you'll enjoy.
We usually feature a few regulars plus our favorite discoveries from around the web, all with an eye to making your time behind the screen easier and more fun.
If you wrote or read something you'd like to see featured here, drop us a line. There's some awesome stuff ...
I've been a wandering these plains, searching high and low for fine posts to bring to market. Check out the teeth on these fellers.
Tools:
Want to whip up a monster style NPC for 4e in a minute? Check out the flash based NPChimera (beta). It uses PB1 races and classes so far.
Hate the math of encumbrance, but don't want characters to carry 20,000 copper in their pockets? Take a ...
Gnome Rodeos are the Stew's periodic link roundups -- articles packed with pointers to excellent GMing material we think you'll enjoy.
We usually feature a few regulars plus our favorite discoveries from around the web, all with an eye to making your time behind the screen easier and more fun.
If you wrote or read something you'd like to see featured here, drop us a line. There's some awesome stuff ...
Gnome Rodeos are the Stew's periodic link roundups -- articles packed with pointers to excellent GMing material we think you'll enjoy.
We usually feature a few regulars plus our favorite discoveries from around the web, all with an eye to making your time behind the screen easier and more fun.
If you wrote or read something you'd like to see featured here, drop us a line. There's some awesome stuff ...
Gnome Rodeos are the Stew's periodic link roundups -- articles packed with pointers to excellent GMing material we think you'll enjoy.
We usually feature a few regulars plus our favorite discoveries from around the web, all with an eye to making your time behind the screen easier and more fun.
If you wrote or read something you'd like to see featured here, drop us a line. There's some awesome stuff ...
Today's surprise weekend article is brought to you by the word "open."
DMing Tools: Get a Free Copy of Open Game Table
For May 31 and June 1 only, if you sign up for (or upgrade to) a premium account on the DMing Tools website offered by Dungeon Mastering, you get a free copy of Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Volume 1 (which retails for $22.95).
Open ...
Usually when I post contest results, I just post the results -- but this time around, there are two nifty GMing resources I'd also like to tell you about.
Well, three, actually, because in case you missed it we took part in a big first this past Friday: Wizards of the Coast gave pre-release copies of the Player's Handbook 2 to 12 RPG sites -- one of them being ...
Seven days until our article on the PHB 2 drops -- can you tell I'm excited about it? Want to read about something specific? I'll be writing about the book from a GMing perspective, and topic suggestions are most welcome.
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 is ...
Consider, if you will, Peter Muse of Meredith, N.H. As related in a Feb. 25 story from The Associated Press, this ice fishing enthusiast — who already has a $2,500 bobhouse with fireplace, bathroom and four-burner stove — decided to set up a hot tub on the ice.
Thirty-year-old Krisy Short, who was enjoying the tub in her red, white and blue bikini, gave her verdict: “What’s more American ...
In the past few days, five people have sent us email asking the gnomes to check out something nifty of theirs. Since my time to do link roundups (which I miss!) has been limited lately, I thought I'd peek at them here instead of in private, and share them with you.
GOLD
GOLD is like King of Kong, but with professional D&D (sorry, "Goblins & Gold") players -- and ...
A new year calls for a new campaign. And a new campaign means devising a new villain.
It’s the perfect time for a GM to shine. Is there a better test than coming up with an NPC who stands in complete opposition to what your players stand for?
For inspiration I checked out my collection of Dragon back issues. The last issue published under Paizo, No. 359 from September 2007, ...
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