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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 1,110 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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Oct 20, 2011 by 2

You Picked It: Microscope

Back before Gencon, Phil threw out an article asking for Gnome Stew fans to pick games for us to pick up and review. Phil reviewed Vornheim – The Complete City Kit and I am now reviewing Microscope. We got no compensation or free copies for these games. I take a long time to do my reviews, mostly because I want to get deeply into what I’m reviewing ...
Oct 11, 2011 by 6

Diaspora: Cluster Generation in Action

At our last roleplaying meetup, we cast about for a good game. We had kicked around the idea of playing Diaspora on the message board, but no one had studied enough to lead everyone through the process. Or so we thought... until we agreed that building a cluster together sounded like fun, and decided that we'd share the responsibility instead of relying on a GM to guide us. So ...
Aug 9, 2010 by 6

Troupe Style GMing and the Gaming Charter

A while back my group got to the end of a campaign I was running and I was 4 steps beyond GM burnout. Deciding that no one wanted to pick up a new campaign of a couple of months, and deciding that we didn’t want to do a string of one shots, we bandied about many ideas for what we wanted to do. Finally, someone suggested we take ...
Jul 10, 2008 by 6

Time Preservers: Primetime Adventures in Play

We recently completed a five episode (plus pilot) season of our first Primetime Adventures game. Here's a rundown of how we did it and what was involved. The group We founded our group a little under a year ago after playing together at the game store meetup group. Our goals were to enjoy games together and try out more indie games and techniques. Primetime Adventures (PTA) was ...

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