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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 1,109 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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Jan 12, 2012 by 8

Asteroids, Dinosaurs, 5e, and Your Gaming Group

The most widely accepted theory as to what killed the dinosaurs is that an asteroid (maybe a comet) slammed into the Earth about 65 million years ago. A big enough rock moving fast enough is all it took to obliterate the largest and fiercest creatures to have ever walked upon the surface of this planet. Well asteroid Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition has been spotted and it ...
Sep 30, 2010 by 7

Review: Filling the Empty Chair – A Guide to Finding Players

Filling the Empty Chair is a PDF resource designed to help gamers find people to play with. Written by Johnn Four, the the editor of Roleplaying Tips, it combines player-finding advice with freely-available information. It's a 30-page PDF available for download from RoleplayingTips.com for $7. This is a review of Version 1.03. As the back of the book indicates, this is a "living document" and may be updated as ...
Jun 3, 2010 by 3

First Time GM: Looking for Group

First Time GM is a series of articles dedicated to the newly-minted game master, making his or her first tentative die rolls behind the screen. Today’s article deals with finding a group of players, deciding on a time and a place to play, and ensuring that everyone is on the same page once the game starts. Finding players Some GMs are lucky enough to inherit or ...
May 13, 2008 by 11

Game Recruitment: Two tales

Phoenix came to town and was looking for a roleplaying group. I answered his email, because I was trying to get into the wider Fresno scene, and thought it'd be a good to help a new visitor find a group. (Mine, unfortunately was full-- an established group in the middle of the campaign, and I wasn't GM.) We met over coffee (and an amusing misunderstanding). ...

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