Posts Tagged by books
| May 18, 2011 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
For a variety of reasons, I’ve cut way back on the number of gaming books I’ve bought over the past year — and as a bookworm who never has enough space for all of my books, and whose wife drops regular hints that her Kindle really cuts down on the impending need for additional shelves, that feels pretty weird. As a GM, I’m used to buying a lot of books for games I run. That’s always made sense to me: I need more of them…
| February 15, 2010 | Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider |
Reading fellow Gnome Scott Martin’s article on “Setting vs. Cast” made me realize that I generally don’t enjoy RPG settings borrowed from books, movies, or television. (For the sake of this article, let’s call them literary settings.) Asking “Why not?” led to this article, which includes advice for using literary settings. I recognize the popularity of literary settings; entire systems are written for them. But they also have some shortcomings, at least in my experience. Removing the cast changes the dynamic of the setting. In…
| December 23, 2009 | Posted by Matthew J. Neagley |
Forgot to get a gift for a GM in your life, or just don’t know enough about the hobby to know what’s good and what’s crap? Alternately, are you looking for something that isn’t necessarily about gaming, so you don’t get them a gaming book EVERY gift giving holiday? Well, look no further. Life Magazine has put together several coffee table books full of inspiration for any GM while technically not being gaming books so you don’t get pigeonholed as giving the same gift all the…
| November 23, 2009 | Posted by Phil Vecchione |
I am guessing that most of you are like me and are voracious readers. I am always reading some book, and most often I have second one I am reading casually on the side. There is nothing that gives me more anxiety than when I get to the end of a book, and don’t know what I am going to read next. My favorite type of reading material is RPG books with Sci-Fi a close runner up. I love reading RPG books for al sorts…
| May 15, 2009 | Posted by Troy E. Taylor |
What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of lentils and herbs, with a dash of DMing observations. Don’t be afraid to dip in your ladle and stir, or throw in something from your own spice rack. Good GMs need inspiration. Movies, TV, music and video games all figure into the mix, of course. But nothing beats a good book. The events of the past month have sent many of us looking into the roots of our hobby. And if anything is made clear, it…
| September 2, 2008 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
We’re trying something a little different with this post — the first in what might become a (highly irregular) series, Tomes of the Gnomes. It’s kinda, sorta, maybe in a roundabout way related to GMing, and we thought you might enjoy it. Have you ever met a GM who isn’t also a reader — and probably a pretty voracious one, at that? I don’t think I have. And I don’t know about you, but I love giving and getting book recommendations. That’s what Tomes of…
| May 19, 2008 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
When D&D 4th Edition launches on June 6th, many GMs will be making a tough decision: to 4e or not to 4e. Several of us gnomes have already made that choice, though, and will be snagging all three core books either on or shortly after launch day. We’ll be rubbing our grubby little gnome-paws all over them anyway, and we’d love to write about all three core books from a GM’s perspective for you. That’s something we don’t expect a lot of other sites to…
