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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
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This year, we're trying something new: A Cyber Monday sale, today only, on DriveThruRPG: $16.95 for the Masks + Eureka PDF bundle (normally $26.95, or $16.95 individually), and $9.95 for Masks or Eureka separately (normally $16.95).
This is the best price we've ever offered on Masks and Eureka in PDF, and it will only last until the end of the day
Here are the links:
Masks + Eureka PDFs for $16.95
Masks ...
With the conclusion of my most recent Corporation campaign, I have been working on the prep for my new All For One campaign. As with any new campaign I run, I like to try to shake things up, doing things differently from campaign to campaign. In my previous Corporation campaign there were very few reoccurring NPCs (largely because the players did not leave a lot of witnesses), and ...
If you've been waiting for Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game -- Gnome Stew's second book -- to come back into stock, your wait has ended!
You can now order Masks in print (with a free PDF copy) from the Engine Publishing online store.
It's also available as a standalone PDF, as well as in a package deal with our first book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire ...
Once again some of the Gnomes will be rolling into Indy next week, and today's article is about where we will be and how you can find us. Despite the bad press 4e has been giving us Gnomes, we are a social bunch, and nothing gives us more of a thrill than getting to meet the people who read Gnome Stew, and write the comments that spark the ...
If you've been waiting for the standalone PDF edition of our latest book, Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game, your wait is over!
Order the Masks PDF directly from Engine Publishing
Order Masks from DriveThruRPG
We've also made the Masks PDF available in a bundle with our first book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, for 20% off:
Order Masks and Eureka for 20% off from Engine Publishing
Order ...
After 10 months of development and hundreds of hours of work by a team of 22 people on three continents, I'm pleased to announce that Gnome Stew's second book, Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game, is now available for preorder!
Preorder Masks directly from Engine Publishing
If you'd like to learn more about this monster tome (a 336-page hardcover!), check out reviews and previews, and get the details ...
Hmm, this package is suspiciously book-shaped!
What could be inside? Why, it's the printer's proof for Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game!
Look at the spine on this beast! It's gigantic!
Here's a two-page spread featuring the artwork of Chris Reach:
...and another featuring the artwork of Avery Liell-Kok:
For good measure, how does Masks stack up (hah!) against our first book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, and ...
This will be our final preview of Gnome Stew's upcoming second book, Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCS for Any Roleplaying Game. If you haven't checked out the other previews yet, fear not: this one collects all of them, as well as providing new material.
If you've been curious about Masks -- and I hope you are! -- this article also includes vital stats (page count, etc.), a status update, and ...
Gnome Stew's second book, Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game, will be available for preorder soon -- but in the meantime, let's do another preview!
Our first two free previews presented six fantasy villains and six sci-fi allies. The fantasy preview also included a wealth of general info about the book, and in a third piece we revealed the author of the foreword.
This time around, let's take ...
We're really gathering steam on our second book now: Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game has its own product page on the Engine Publishing website, we've announced that Wolfgang Baur wrote the foreword, we've shared the cover, and the first sample PDF is now available.
Hey, make that the first TWO sample PDFs, because here's the second one: Masks preview #2: Sci-fi NPCs! Like the first preview, ...
With his excellent foreword off to layout, I'm thrilled to be able to announce that Wolfgang Baur, gaming industry legend and the man behind Kobold Quarterly and Open Design, is the Mystery Author of the foreword for Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game!
Wolfgang is one of the best-known names in gaming, with credits stretching back more than two decades. You've probably read his work, and if ...
Gnome Stew's second book for GMs, Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game, is marching towards publication, and it's time for our first preview!
Masks will be published by Engine Publishing, the company I started to produce our books, and we're aiming for a summer release.
There are other books of NPCs out there, but none quite like Masks -- it's a unique product that we think has a ...
We've been quiet about our upcoming second book, Masks, for too long -- it's time to share another preview!
This is actually a two-parter. First, the sexiest part: the cover. It really needs no further introduction -- we think it's gorgeous, and we hope you do, too!
This cover was illustrated by Christopher Reach, who also did some amazing interior art for the book, and designed by Darren Hardy, whose ...
We've mentioned that we're working on our second book a few times over the past several months, but our secretive gnomish nature has kept us from releasing any details -- until now!
GenCon event listings came out over the weekend, and eagle-eyed Gnome Stew readers may already have spotted this listing:
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Meet the Gnomes Behind the Engine!
Come and meet some of the gnomes behind the ENnie Award-winning blog Gnome Stew! ...
Our Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale went so well that we're bringing it back for the holidays: From now through December 31, 2010, you can get Gnome Stew's first book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, for 29% off.
Buy Eureka now!
Free 19-page sample PDF
That's $11.95 for the PDF ($5 off) and $24.95 ($10 off) for the print + PDF bundle. Eureka has gotten rave reviews, is a ...
