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
1,110 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.
"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
Happy GM's Day! To celebrate this, the Earth's finest holiday, I wanted to highlight some resources we've posted that relate to seven specific topics:
Setting up your gaming space
Props and materials
Technology
Prep-light GMing and improvisation
Adventures
First-time GMing
Treasure
With over 850 articles, these aren't the only seven topics we've covered in depth, but they offer a good cross-section of the Stew and its 10 current authors, and they all feature evergreen articles -- ...
I love gaming goodies, tsotchkes, and widgets in all forms -- special dice for each campaign, mascots, a wide range of miniatures, Tact-Tiles, piles of books...the more the better!
But when I'm GMing, I keep my side of the screen pretty lean. Here are the highlights -- tools I consider essential to my GMing arsenal, and which I highly recommend for any GM (brand spanking new or grizzled veteran).
A ...
A common practice in teaching today is for the teacher of a class to make notes on important things and then provide them to the students. Studies show that this helps students retain information that they would normally gloss over in lectures. I remember many teachers in college doing this and I remember it definitely helped. Having an outline of the topics to be covered, or a ...
