Posts Tagged by gnometastic
| May 16, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Preorders for our next book, Odyssey: The Complete Game Master’s Guide to Campaign Management, will be opening on June 3, and we want you to be able to check out the book before deciding whether to preorder. You can now download a free 9-page PDF preview of Odyssey that includes the cover, table of contents, introduction, and opening section. This should give you a good idea of what topics the book covers and how it approaches them. The initial announcement of Odyssey also offers some…
| May 12, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Five years ago today, Gnome Stew went live with 10 articles and around 250 RSS subscribers. In that five years we’ve published around 1,400 articles, had 1.7 million visitors, drawn 25,000 comments, won three ENnie Awards and an RPG Site of the Year Award, and published three GMing books (soon to be four). The Stew has gone places and done things I never expected. We’ve had some downs, but it’s been mostly ups — and the ups have been pretty damned awesome. And much of…
| April 30, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Gnome Stew won the 2013 RPG Site of the Year award! Many thanks to you, our readers, who voted for us in the nomination round! Your voting efforts got us nominated last year as well, but the judges chose a different winner. Winning this year’s SOTY award was a fantastic surprise — and a one-time event, as winners aren’t eligible in future years. I encourage you to check out the other four SOTY finalists: Kobold Press, G*M*S Magazine, Age of Ravens, and Nearly Enough Dice.…
| April 1, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Too many RPGs aren’t about gnomes — and would be so much better if they were. So we’re solving that problem with our new Kickstarter, which launched this morning. Our funding goal, $632,000, will give us the funds we need to buy or license the following depressingly gnome-free RPGs and make them about gnomes: Vampire: The Requiem Technoir Call of Cthulhu Apocalypse World Dogs in the Vineyard The One Ring Dark Heresy Traveller Night’s Black Agents Cyberpunk 2020 To give you a taste of how…
| January 28, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Today is the last day to enter our 2013 New Year, New Game challenge and submit your post for the 2013 NYNG blog carnival. Sometime tonight I’ll shut the contest down and start pulling everything together for the big wrap-up post for the blog carnival. Don’t wait too long! (Comments on this post have been turned off so that no one accidentally tries to enter the contest here, which wouldn’t count.)
| January 14, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Welcome to the second annual New Year, New Game challenge! New Year, New Game (NYNG for short) is a Gnome Stew venture that began in 2012 — an annual challenge to GMs all over the world: Run a new game this year. NYNG runs from January 14 to January 28 this year. Last year’s NYNG contest resulted in 57 game ideas for 39 RPGs and 15 blog posts about running new games. I’d love to top both of those numbers this year. We hope NYNG…
| January 14, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
As part of our second annual New Year, New Game challenge, we’re also running our second blog carnival! This is separate from the 2013 NYNG contest, although the timeframe is the same and folks are welcome to both enter the contest and take part in the blog carnival. A blog carnival is an event that features multiple blogs contributing posts on the same broad topic, in this case posts about running a new game. We’ll be linking to NYNG posts throughout the challenge, and then…
