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Gaming Conventions

This coming Sunday (May 1st) after you have gotten over your Royal Wedding hangover, is Gen Con Event Registration. For those attending, this is the time for the mad scramble to get into events before your fellow dice monkeys grab all the free seats. For some there will be the sweet taste of victory and for others just a fist full of Generic tickets and a mass of frustration. So while you are sitting with your Excel spreadsheet plotting out five levels of event picks,…

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 five-star bestseller on DriveThruRPG (where this deal is also available), and has sold over…

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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 Golden Geek Award-nominated, rave-review-receiving first book for $24.95 print + PDF or $11.95 PDF. That’s…

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Eureka has been nominated for a 2010 Golden Geek Award for Best Supplement! Thank you VERY much to all of the Gnome Stew readers who voted to get Eureka nominated — this is a huge and unexpected honor. The Golden Geek Awards are given out every year by BoardGameGeek, one of the largest and best-known board gaming communities on the web. They recently began covering RPGs and video games, and this is the first year that they’ve includes RPGs in the Golden Geek Awards. We’re…

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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 for Best Supplement. If you’d like to support the Stew and our book, you’ll need…

Today is the unofficial last day to post a Gen Con review, and I did not want 2010 to go by without saying a few things about my experiences at Gen Con. As always, it was an exciting time filled with new games, new ideas, and great friends. I will do my best to give you a high level overview of all the things that went on this year, in this link-olicious review. This year’s Gen Con was very busy for me, and it looked…

As the week of distilled geekery known as Gen Con comes to an end, I am sleep-deprived, mentally exhausted, and exhilarated. Much was achieved, much was learned, and much fun was had. The Good As probably know by now, Gnome Stew won a silver ENnie (and I jumped off the  stage wearing a kilt – not one of my brighter moments). We’re honored to have been among the excellent blogs nominated, and are proud to have taken the silver. Kobold Quarterly (despite the horrible choice…