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
1,186 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
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 ...
The Stew turns three today, and we're celebrating with a contest: Guess how old the gnomes are -- in days -- and win a $103 Amazon.com gift certificate!
This contest is a way to say thank you to our readers, both old and new, and hopefully have a bit of fun at the same time. Without you, we'd be writing Gnome Stew articles for our cats and pet kobolds, ...
We've mentioned that we're working on our second book a few times over the past several months, but our secretive gnomish nature has kept us from releasing any details -- until now!
GenCon event listings came out over the weekend, and eagle-eyed Gnome Stew readers may already have spotted this listing:
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Meet the Gnomes Behind the Engine!
Come and meet some of the gnomes behind the ENnie Award-winning blog Gnome Stew! ...
Thanks to CF of the Brazilian RPG site .20, you can now read Gnome Stew articles in Portuguese. CF started with this one: Narrativa dos Jogadores, a translation of John Arcadian's article Player Narrative, and there are many more translations in the works.
.20 is a Brazilian powerhouse, slick and polished -- and they have even more authors than the Stew. I've worked with CF before, as he used ...
If you're reading this, then DNS has propagated (non-techie: it's what tells the Internet where websites are and how to find them, and can take up to 48 hours) and you're seeing Gnome Stew on our new server.
We've been keeping folks updated on our progress through Twitter (@gnomestew) and Facebook, since the site itself wasn't viewable. I didn't announce the move here beforehand because the opportunity to do ...
I write two of these State of the Stew articles each year: one at the end of the calendar year, and one around our anniversary. Those dates are conveniently about six months apart, which is good spacing for a snapshot. (Past State of the Stew articles live here.)
Gnome Stew went live on May 12, 2008, which is actually hard to believe -- it's such a part of my ...
Our Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale went so well that we're bringing it back for the holidays: From now through December 31, 2010, you can get Gnome Stew's first book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, for 29% off.
Buy Eureka now!
Free 19-page sample PDF
That's $11.95 for the PDF ($5 off) and $24.95 ($10 off) for the print + PDF bundle. Eureka has gotten rave reviews, is a ...
Well, now you can! 5iRPG is the official home of Gnome Stew articles translated into Chinese, with contributor angelcat rocking the translations. Thanks, angelcat!
5iRPG is a big, slick, exuberant site with a ton of content, and a great home for Stew articles. Here's angelcat's first translated article, which went up on November 29, 2010.
You'll find links to all of our translation partners on our languages we've stuck our ...
I'm pleased to announce that Gnome Stew articles will now be available in Swedish on Spelledarrens blog, starting with this fine article by Troy Taylor.
Spelledarren (spel = game, ledare = leader, spelledare = game master), who runs the site, will be translating articles at his own pace and posting them alongside his other content. His blog, which includes a wiki, focuses on GMing; I dig its clean, simple ...
Want to buy a copy of Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters as a Christmas gift? Still haven't picked up a copy for yourself?
For the first time, we're putting Eureka on sale for four days -- Black Friday through Cyber Monday, November 26-29.
Eureka is normally $34.95 as a print + PDF bundle and $16.95 as a PDF, but during the sale you can get Gnome Stew's ...
