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.
"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
Here's one way that you can tell that our first annual New Year, New Game challenge had some excellent entries: After the first round of secret ballot voting for our favorites, there was a three-way tie. We broke that tie with a runoff vote between those three entries.
Because we received over 50 entries in the contest -- the threshold for awarding a second prize -- we'll be giving ...
Welcome to our final article of 2011, my twice-yearly State of the Stew rundown on our stats, milestones, and so forth for the past year. We do one of these in December and one in May (the site's birthday), and while they don't make for scintillating read or appeal to everyone, I'm a big believer in marking milestones, I enjoy reading these kinds of posts when other sites ...
Imagine, if you will, a geek dad who has a lot on his plate who knew that Gnome Stew's 1,000th article was fast approaching, but kind of lost sight of it over the past few days.
And imagine that on that fateful day that fellow posted a request for Gnome Stew readers to help our book, Masks, get nominated for a Golden Geek Award...and totally didn't catch that that ...
If you've been waiting for Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game -- Gnome Stew's second book -- to come back into stock, your wait has ended!
You can now order Masks in print (with a free PDF copy) from the Engine Publishing online store.
It's also available as a standalone PDF, as well as in a package deal with our first book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire ...
With many thanks to our loyal readers and fans, to our family, friends, and coworkers, and to everyone who voted for us, Gnome Stew just won the silver ENnie for Best Blog in the 2011 GenCon EN World RPG Awards!
Thank you!
That makes two years in a row for the Stew, and we couldn't ask for better fans. You rock!
Image by the Stew's own John Arcadian, taken on what ...
If you've been waiting for the standalone PDF edition of our latest book, Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game, your wait is over!
Order the Masks PDF directly from Engine Publishing
Order Masks from DriveThruRPG
We've also made the Masks PDF available in a bundle with our first book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, for 20% off:
Order Masks and Eureka for 20% off from Engine Publishing
Order ...
Please vote for Gnome Stew in the 2011 ENnies!
Gnome Stew was nominated for Best Blog in the 2011 GenCon EN World RPG Awards (the "ENnies"), and we have our beady gnomish eyes on the gold.
Voting is open to anyone, takes 30 seconds or less, requires no registration or other bullshit, and ends today. We would greatly appreciate your vote!
Here's how to vote:
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When the 2011 ENnie Award nominees were announced last Friday, we were floored to see that Gnome Stew was one of them. For the second year in a row, the Stew has been nominated for Best Blog.
Congratulations to all of the nominees! I see fantastic products in every category, including a number I'm unfamiliar with and now want to check out.
Special congratulations to our fellow Best Blog nominees ...
Hmm, this package is suspiciously book-shaped!
What could be inside? Why, it's the printer's proof for Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game!
Look at the spine on this beast! It's gigantic!
Here's a two-page spread featuring the artwork of Chris Reach:
...and another featuring the artwork of Avery Liell-Kok:
For good measure, how does Masks stack up (hah!) against our first book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, and ...
This will be our final preview of Gnome Stew's upcoming second book, Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCS for Any Roleplaying Game. If you haven't checked out the other previews yet, fear not: this one collects all of them, as well as providing new material.
If you've been curious about Masks -- and I hope you are! -- this article also includes vital stats (page count, etc.), a status update, and ...
Gnome Stew's second book, Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game, will be available for preorder soon -- but in the meantime, let's do another preview!
Our first two free previews presented six fantasy villains and six sci-fi allies. The fantasy preview also included a wealth of general info about the book, and in a third piece we revealed the author of the foreword.
This time around, let's take ...
We're really gathering steam on our second book now: Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game has its own product page on the Engine Publishing website, we've announced that Wolfgang Baur wrote the foreword, we've shared the cover, and the first sample PDF is now available.
Hey, make that the first TWO sample PDFs, because here's the second one: Masks preview #2: Sci-fi NPCs! Like the first preview, ...
With his excellent foreword off to layout, I'm thrilled to be able to announce that Wolfgang Baur, gaming industry legend and the man behind Kobold Quarterly and Open Design, is the Mystery Author of the foreword for Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game!
Wolfgang is one of the best-known names in gaming, with credits stretching back more than two decades. You've probably read his work, and if ...
We had 65 entries in our guess how ancient the gnomes are contest, with the largest prize we've ever offered up for grabs: a $103 Amazon.com gift certificate.
There were a lot of guesses in the right ballpark, as well as a few folks who thought we were all 12 years old (or didn't read the whole contest article, which included a "floor" number) -- and many more folks ...
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 ...
