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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 1,186 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.

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Dec 25, 2008 by 9

For Inventive GMs There Are No Bad Christmas Gifts

Christmas Day! It is finally here! And with it we embrace good tidings for all, holiday cheer, and loot. If you were a PC, then Christmas Day is when you get that +3 sword of Ass Kickery that you have been acting Lawful Good for all year long. But much like the occasional cursed item appears in a module, so too does the occasional stinker present show up in ...
Dec 23, 2008 by 14

Meet the Gnomes at Christmas

Gnome Stew will be taking a holiday break starting December 24th, and returning to normal on January 5th. But don't despair: There will be new articles appearing regularly while we're on hiatus (in the form of us gnomes revisiting our favorite ones from the archives), with the possible exception of New Year's Day (when we'll all be so sloshed even WordPress won't help us). There are over 260 GMing ...

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