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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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Feb 24, 2011 by 4

Two Great Deals & Two Worthy Causes

Today we gnomes want to bring you, our faithful readers, a chance to do the following: Expand your collection of RPGs. You know that you want to. Help others who are in need. You know that you need the good karma. Well here are not one, but two ways with which you can do both! Two Scooters Press ...
Dec 16, 2010 by 0

Gamers Helping Toys for Tots

Today friend of the gnomes Sean Patrick Fannon announced the release of the complete collection of his “A Better Game” newsletter and his comic strip “Bring Dice and Chips” as a 91 page PDF for $1.99 at DriveThruRPG.com.  Sean is a very talented GM and author, but he is also a generous soul.  In the spirit of the Gamers Helping Haiti bundle which raised $175,000 for Doctors Without ...
Oct 20, 2010 by 2

DriveThruRPG’s “Doctors Without Borders Flood Relief” Bundle: A Great Deal, But An Even Better Cause

Monday of this week OneBookShelf sites DriveThruRPG.com, DriveThruComics.com, and RPGNow.com announced two special bundles being sold to raise money for Doctors Without Borders’ efforts to provide medical aid to the people of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces of Pakistan where floods have devastated the local people. The first bundle is a collection of role playing games, supplements, and accessories in PDF format totaling $724.46 in value and that ...
Jan 20, 2010 by 23

A No-Brainer: Donate $20 to Haiti Relief, Get $1,400 in Gaming PDFs

OneBookShelf, which runs RPGNow and DriveThruRPG (among other sites), is doing something fantastic to help Haiti: donate $20 to Doctors Without Borders for Haiti relief, and you'll receive a bundle of gaming PDFs worth over $1,400. Honestly, if you have $20 you can afford to donate, this is an incredibly easy decision. Here's the link: Gamers Help Haiti $20 donation. OBS has already raised over $3,200 $7,000 $13,000 $37,000 $42,000 $75,000 ...

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