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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 1,109 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

Merry Christmas from the Gnomes

Merry Christmas from all of us here at Gnome Stew! Whether you do more gaming or less over the holidays, whether your stocking is full of dice or coal, and whether you celebrate Christmas or another holiday, we wish you and yours the very best and a very happy new year. 20th-level necromancers have determined that approximately 40% of all gnomes turn into dust when exposed to a camera, so ...

The Best of Gnome Stew, Part 5 of 5

We're on our annual Christmas break (12/27-12/31, returning 1/3/11), a week of non-stop drinking and putting our stock of powdered-dwarf-penis aphrodisiacs to good use family time and anime hairdressing holiday merriment, but we never like to let the stew stop bubbling entirely. As in past years, we'll be featuring six articles from the 2010 archives every day this week, with each gnome picking three favorites that they wrote. If ...

The Best of Gnome Stew, 2010: Part 4 of 5

We're on our annual Christmas break (12/27-12/31, returning 1/3/11), a week of non-stop drinking and putting our stock of powdered-dwarf-penis aphrodisiacs to good use family time and anime hairdressing holiday merriment, but we never like to let the stew stop bubbling entirely. As in past years, we'll be featuring six articles from the 2010 archives every day this week, with each gnome picking three favorites that they wrote. If ...

The Best of Gnome Stew, 2010: Part 3 of 5

We're on our annual Christmas break (12/27-12/31, returning 1/3/11), a week of non-stop drinking and putting our stock of powdered-dwarf-penis aphrodisiacs to good use family time and anime hairdressing holiday merriment, but we never like to let the stew stop bubbling entirely. As in past years, we'll be featuring six articles from the 2010 archives every day this week, with each gnome picking three favorites that they wrote. If ...

The Best of Gnome Stew, 2010: Part 2 of 5

We're on our annual Christmas break (12/27-12/31, returning 1/3/11), a week of non-stop drinking and putting our stock of powdered-dwarf-penis aphrodisiacs to good use family time and anime hairdressing holiday merriment, but we never like to let the stew stop bubbling entirely. As in past years, we'll be featuring six articles from the 2010 archives every day this week, with each gnome picking three favorites that they wrote. If ...

The Best of Gnome Stew, 2010: Part 1 of 5

We're on our annual Christmas break (12/27-12/31, returning 1/3/11), a week of non-stop drinking and putting our stock of powdered-dwarf-penis aphrodisiacs to good use family time and anime hairdressing holiday merriment, but we never like to let the stew stop bubbling entirely. As in past years, we'll be featuring six articles from the 2010 archives every day this week, with each gnome picking three favorites that they wrote. If ...

Meet the Gnomes at Christmas, 2010 Edition

Every year, we like to show you the faces behind the Stew at Christmastime, and 2010 is no exception! John in his everyday "Just heading to the mall" outfit: Patrick and the next generation of gnomes: Walt and his family at Disney World: Don and his family showing their Saints pride: Scott and his wife in their new gaming store, Crazy Squirrel (and what's that I spy? Eureka!): Martin and his family, Palest People ...

Gaming Products that Seem Magical to You

When I think back over 20-plus years as a gamer, only a few gaming products have ever felt truly magical to me. Two, to be precise. Oh, there have been LOTS of standouts -- awesome products that have given me years of enjoyment and shaped how I game, and, by extension, that have played a role in making some of my best memories with friends. Which is a pretty fucking ...

The Best of Gnome Stew, 2009: Part 5 of 5

Our annual Christmas break (12/24 to 1/3, back to normal posting on 1/4) is in full swing, so while we're off shagging dwarves spending quality time with our favorite liquors families, we're serving up the best of the nearly 300 articles we wrote in 2009. Whether you've been reading the Stew since we launched in May 2008 or just discovered us yesterday, there is a LOT of GMing material ...

The Best of Gnome Stew, 2009: Part 4 of 5

Our annual Christmas break (12/24 to 1/3, back to normal posting on 1/4) is in full swing, so while we're off shagging dwarves spending quality time with our favorite liquors families, we're serving up the best of the nearly 300 articles we wrote in 2009. Whether you've been reading the Stew since we launched in May 2008 or just discovered us yesterday, there is a LOT of GMing material ...

The Best of Gnome Stew, 2009: Part 3 of 5

Our annual Christmas break (12/24 to 1/3, back to normal posting on 1/4) is in full swing, so while we're off shagging dwarves spending quality time with our favorite liquors families, we're serving up the best of the nearly 300 articles we wrote in 2009. Whether you've been reading the Stew since we launched in May 2008 or just discovered us yesterday, there is a LOT of GMing material ...

The Best of Gnome Stew, 2009: Part 2 of 5

Our annual Christmas break (12/24 to 1/3, back to normal posting on 1/4) is in full swing, so while we're off shagging dwarves spending quality time with our favorite liquors families, we're serving up the best of the nearly 300 articles we wrote in 2009. Whether you've been reading the Stew since we launched in May 2008 or just discovered us yesterday, there is a LOT of GMing material ...

The Best of Gnome Stew, 2009: Part 1 of 5

Our annual Christmas break (12/24 to 1/3, back to normal posting on 1/4) is in full swing, so while we're off shagging dwarves spending quality time with our favorite liquors families, we're serving up the best of the nearly 300 articles we wrote in 2009. Whether you've been reading the Stew since we launched in May 2008 or just discovered us yesterday, there is a LOT of GMing material ...

Not Just a Token Gift…

Seasons greetings and happy holidays to all this fine Christmas Day! To show our appreciation to you, our dear readers, we Gnomes are giving you a gift for being such dedicated devourers of the stew! Here is our gift to you. Enjoy! What did I get? What did I get? Your gift is a zip file with the files needed for you to create your own tokens (or pogs) to use ...

Have a Very Gnomish Christmas!

Gnome Stew is taking a Christmas break, but we won't be leaving you high and dry with no GMing material to read over your holidays. We're going to blow out the fire under the stewpot and serve up five articles highlighting our favorite Gnome Stew articles from 2009, with six blasts from the past featured each day. We did this last year, and readers said that they enjoyed catching ...