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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 1,110 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.

"I check Gnome Stew every day." -- Monte Cook
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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 ...
May 1, 2009 by 27

Collaborative World Building: Dawn of Worlds

My new campaign is starting this weekend, and my group opted to make use of Dawn of Worlds to design the game world.  Dawn of Worlds is a collaborative world building system for use with RPGs, novels, or anything else for which you'd need a world.  It's system neutral which makes it useful for anyone, and it's a lot of fun in it's own right. We used Dawn of Worlds for ...

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