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
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 ...
Want to buy a copy of Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters as a Christmas gift? Still haven't picked up a copy for yourself?
For the first time, we're putting Eureka on sale for four days -- Black Friday through Cyber Monday, November 26-29.
Eureka is normally $34.95 as a print + PDF bundle and $16.95 as a PDF, but during the sale you can get Gnome Stew's ...
This year's Golden Geek Awards include RPGs and RPG-related products (as well as board games), and Gnome Stew's book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, is eligible to be nominated.
It's a two-stage process: First folks can nominate products, and then the top 10 nominees in each category are voted on to determine the winners.
Eureka is our baby, and we'd love to win a Golden Geek Award ...
Preorders for the print + PDF bundle of Gnome Stew's first book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters closed July 22, and after a bit of behind-the-scenes work, the PDF version of Eureka is now available in the Engine Publishing online store.
The PDF is 314 pages, DRM-free, fully hyperlinked and bookmarked, and costs $16.95. Orders are processed by our e-commerce system, so if you buy the ...
Preorders for Gnome Stew's first book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, are now open:
Preorder Eureka now in the Engine Publishing online store!
Featuring a foreword by gaming industry legend Monte Cook, Eureka contains 501 complete adventure plots usable with almost any roleplaying game, plus GMing advice and tools for making the most of every plot.
Each plot includes a hook to draw your players in, an outline ...
Eureka Preorders
We'll be opening up preorders for our upcoming book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters on Monday, June 28th!
On the 28th, you'll be able to preorder the book on the Engine Publishing website and get immediate access to the PDF, weeks before the print edition is available.
That means it's time for our final sample...
Horror Plots
I'm a big horror fan, especially of the Lovecraftian variety, and ...
With our upcoming book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, now at the printer, preorders are right around the corner -- so it's time for our nest-to-last preview!
Last week was entirely given over to finishing the book, so I never got time to post our fourth sample -- sorry about that! The first three samples (all available as free PDF downloads on Eureka's product page covered ...
From the Engine Publishing blog:
As of 10:36 pm Mountain, just a couple of minutes ago, Eureka has been sent to the printer and a proof will shortly be headed back to me.
Holy shit, this feels weird.
It still doesn't feel real, and likely won't until I'm holding a copy in my hands, but Gnome Stew's book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, is real.
Nineteen awesome people ...
Along with Engine Publishing, which will be putting out Gnome Stew's upcoming book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, and Silvervine Games, the RPG company founded by gnome and Eureka author John Arcadian, the Stew is proud to be a sponsor of Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Volume 2. (Say that 10 times fast!)
Open Game Table is the second in a series ...
Last week, I posted the first preview from the Stew's soon-to-be-released book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters.
The sci-fi plots chapter has come back from layout, so without further blathering, here's the second sample: Eureka sample PDF #2.
This time around, you'll see a different group of authors -- all of the gnomes contributed 55 plots apiece to Eureka, give or take a plot or two.
You'll also ...
Last week, we shared the cover of Gnome Stew's upcoming book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters Published by Engine Publishing, Eureka will be out before GenCon.
For this week's preview, we have the first sample from the book! It's a two-page spread of adventure plots from the fantasy chapter: Download the sample in PDF.
This sample showcases all the elements of a Eureka plot: in addition to ...
