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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.
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"If you aren’t reading Gnome Stew, you’re missing out." -- Wolfgang Baur
This past week, I finished entering and rating my entire RPG collection on RPGGeek, something I've been putting off for two years. I first posted about RPGG -- which is part of Geekdo, the umbrella site that also includes BoardGameGeek and VideoGameGeek -- almost exactly two years ago: Geekdo.com: Pure, Distilled Awesome.
RPGG is an amazing tool, and one that many GMs -- and gamers in general -- could ...
Gnotes from Gnome Stew HQ
The first installment of Martin's Mentions seemed to go over well, so I'm sticking to that format for this edition. If you have an item to suggest, please email me: martin (at) gnomestew (dot) com.
GMing Roundup
The two latest "The Architect DM" articles over on Critical Hits were quite enjoyable. On Sandbox Campaigns looks at how starting a sandbox-style campaign (one where the PCs pick ...
Gnotes from Gnome Stew HQ
Now that I've resurfaced from working on our second book, Masks, one of the things I want to get back to is posting Gnome Rodeos (link roundups) -- but I think the format could use a shakeup and a fresh coat of paint, so I'm relaunching this old regular series as "Martin's Mentions: Gnotes from Gnome Stew HQ."
I want Martin's Mentions to feel more ...
Gnome Rodeos are the Stew’s periodic link roundups — articles packed with pointers to excellent GMing material we think you’ll enjoy.
We usually feature a few regulars plus our favorite discoveries from around the web, all with an eye to making your time behind the screen easier and more fun.
If you wrote or read something you’d like to see featured here, drop us a line. There’s some awesome ...
Gnome Rodeos are the Stew's periodic link roundups -- articles packed with pointers to excellent GMing material we think you'll enjoy.
We usually feature a few regulars plus our favorite discoveries from around the web, all with an eye to making your time behind the screen easier and more fun.
If you wrote or read something you'd like to see featured here, drop us a line. There's some awesome stuff ...
Gnome Rodeos are the Stew's periodic link roundups -- articles packed with pointers to excellent GMing material we think you'll enjoy.
We usually feature a few regulars plus our favorite discoveries from around the web, all with an eye to making your time behind the screen easier and more fun.
If you wrote or read something you'd like to see featured here, drop us a line. There's some awesome stuff ...
I've been a wandering these plains, searching high and low for fine posts to bring to market. Check out the teeth on these fellers.
Tools:
Want to whip up a monster style NPC for 4e in a minute? Check out the flash based NPChimera (beta). It uses PB1 races and classes so far.
Hate the math of encumbrance, but don't want characters to carry 20,000 copper in their pockets? Take a ...
Gnome Rodeos are the Stew's periodic link roundups -- articles packed with pointers to excellent GMing material we think you'll enjoy.
We usually feature a few regulars plus our favorite discoveries from around the web, all with an eye to making your time behind the screen easier and more fun.
If you wrote or read something you'd like to see featured here, drop us a line. There's some awesome stuff ...
Gnome Rodeos are the Stew's periodic link roundups -- articles packed with pointers to excellent GMing material we think you'll enjoy.
We usually feature a few regulars plus our favorite discoveries from around the web, all with an eye to making your time behind the screen easier and more fun.
If you wrote or read something you'd like to see featured here, drop us a line. There's some awesome stuff ...
Gnome Rodeos are the Stew's periodic link roundups -- articles packed with pointers to excellent GMing material we think you'll enjoy.
We usually feature a few regulars plus our favorite discoveries from around the web, all with an eye to making your time behind the screen easier and more fun.
If you wrote or read something you'd like to see featured here, drop us a line. There's some awesome stuff ...
Usually when I post contest results, I just post the results -- but this time around, there are two nifty GMing resources I'd also like to tell you about.
Well, three, actually, because in case you missed it we took part in a big first this past Friday: Wizards of the Coast gave pre-release copies of the Player's Handbook 2 to 12 RPG sites -- one of them being ...
Seven days until our article on the PHB 2 drops -- can you tell I'm excited about it? Want to read about something specific? I'll be writing about the book from a GMing perspective, and topic suggestions are most welcome.
Gnome Rodeos are our regular link roundups. Provided everyone doesn't simultaneously stop talking about GMing for a week, you should see one most Fridays.
GMing Regulars
→ Dungeon Mastering: Yax is ...
In the past few days, five people have sent us email asking the gnomes to check out something nifty of theirs. Since my time to do link roundups (which I miss!) has been limited lately, I thought I'd peek at them here instead of in private, and share them with you.
GOLD
GOLD is like King of Kong, but with professional D&D (sorry, "Goblins & Gold") players -- and ...
Does anyone actually read this section, or do you just skip to the links? I had a friend in grade school who suspected a teacher wasn't reading any of his papers, so he inserted large sections of just butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter butter to ...
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