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
Today is the Stew's third anniversary! We launched on May 12, 2008, with almost the same lineup of gnomes but a whooole lot fewer readers, articles, comments, and subscribers.
It's been a fun three years, and we hope you're having as much fun reading the Stew as we are publishing articles here. We just crossed article number 900, and we're on our way to 1,000!
The real news today is ...
To celebrate opening preorders for our book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters (now available as a PDF, DRM-free and fully bookmarked and hyperlinked, for $16.95), we held a dice contest that ended last week.
The goal was to be the reader who came the closest to guessing the total of a roll of 1,414 dice (which I made on camera, viewable here) without going over.
The lucky/math-savant ...
This is the end of Gnome Stew's second calendar year (we launched on May 12, 2008), so it's time for another State of the Stew! (Past State of the Stew articles live here.)
In 2008, we surpassed all of the milestones I thought we might approach, and I wasn't sure what things would look like in 2009. To say that 2009 turned out to be a good year would ...
We're pleased to announce the three randomly selected winners of Gnome Stew's first contest, who will each be receiving three killer custom sound effects packages from World oF Twilights Studio:
1st Prize
Dave the Game!
2nd Prize
Cole!
3rd Prize
Amakaze!
Congratulations to the lucky three! And I do mean lucky -- I rolled d100 three times, and got 15, 6 and 58, the numbers of your respective comments on the contest post. Contest winners, ...
