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
1,186 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.
"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
Not to take away from today's excellent Too Defined A Setting Can Prevent Player Creativity article, nor to detract from Gnome Stew's awesome First Anniversary Contest where you can win a set of Battlegraph Dry Erase Tiles, but one of my other projects is a little web site called You Meet In A Tavern and we are having a contest over there with prizes. Why not share the wealth and give ...
To celebrate Gnome Stew's one-year anniversary (of the marriage between delicious dead gnome flesh and game mastering, of course!), we're giving away a set of Battlegraph Dry Erase Tiles courtesy of Longtooth Studios.
Battlegraphs
Battlegraphs are the first commercially available successor to Tact-Tiles, which were one of the best gaming products ever made.
And they look like an excellent successor. They're modular -- they lock together like jigsaw puzzle pieces -- ...
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 ...
Happy GM's Day! As part of Gnome Stew's March 4th blitz, we're holding our third contest.
We thought, "What does every GM need?" And the answer was "A set of badass metal dice."
The Prize
Specifically, a set of 16mm solid metal polyhedral dice with a brushed steel finish from Crystal Caste.
Crystal Caste makes great dice, and these puppies are $45 -- they're not your grandpa's worn, un-inked plastic nuggets.
Sure, they're ...
Being a gnome has its perks. Snazzy felt hat, early access to next season's hottest lawn ornaments, plus I get to promote my other web sites shamelessly. This is one of those shameless promotions.
Announcing YouMeetInATavern.com's first contest: "Can You Scare Us?"
With Halloween fast approaching the YMIAT staff wants to be scared! Do you have what it takes to terrify us? Can you design a horrifying monster or villain? ...
We're pleased to announce the three randomly selected winners of Gnome Stew's first contest, who will each be receiving three killer custom sound effects packages from World oF Twilights Studio:
1st Prize
Dave the Game!
2nd Prize
Cole!
3rd Prize
Amakaze!
Congratulations to the lucky three! And I do mean lucky -- I rolled d100 three times, and got 15, 6 and 58, the numbers of your respective comments on the contest post. Contest winners, ...
One thing we've been wanting to do since we first launched Gnome Stew is have a contest for our readers -- and here we are with our first contest!
Last week I promised that the prizes would be surprising. We've never seen a contest like this one on any other gaming site, and we're thrilled to be able to offer something this unique to our readers.
World oF Twilights Studio
Gnome ...
