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
Three years ago, when I started Treasure Tables, it was in large part because outside of Roleplaying Tips, there just wasn't that much GMing material on the web -- or if there was, I couldn't find it.
Now I can easily foresee a time when I won't just be able to cull the best GMing links for my Gnome Rodeos, I'll actually have to pare those down to a ...
About half the gnomes are at GenCon, and before they took off in their fancy private jets those bastards chained me to the radiator and said, I quote, "There better be a damned Gnome Rodeo while we're gone, or there'll be...trouble."
They fingered their belt buckles ominously while they said it, which I have to say brought to mind a number of unpleasant mental images. So, uh, here we ...
My wife, Alysia, and I are going to see Pineapple Express this weekend. All of a sudden this week's title makes sense, right?
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: Coming soon: the RPG Maestro newsletter, a monthly-ish newsletter Yax will use to deliver more in-depth articles. If your ...
It's really too bad I couldn't think of a synonym for "mastering" that started with an N, isn't it?
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: DMing.com celebrates its first birthday! Yax's site remains one of my favorite RPG blogs, and comes highly recommended. From this week, try this: ...
Meet Gnome Stewart:
Look at those dead, soulless eyes, their thousand-yard stare aimed firmly at a point just above your right ear. The sickly, greyish skin (which I completely failed to capture here, but trust me: he's grey-green). And the flowers, mother of god, the flowers.
Does he carry them to remind him of the days before he started sniffing glue, when he still had a sense of smell? To ...
It's early because it's Thursday, not Friday, but also late because I didn't do a rodeo last week. It's special because it contains a metric ass-ton of GMing links (the metric ass-ton, of course, is an official gnomish unit of measure...).
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 ...
Okay, I write one little bastardized lyric for a title, and suddenly I'm picturing eighties music videos with gnomes in them...
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: You should give your GM
Instead of, ahem, resting your eyes at your desk this fine Friday, why not check out some GMing links?
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 gathers up past articles and PDFs on starting up a new campaign and looks at the six As of DMing. They're good ...
It's been a great week for GMing content on the web, and the highlights are coming your way in 3...2...1...
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: For this week, Yax talks about Why you should never use pre-made adventures as your main storyline (I strongly agree based on ...
It's Friday in Gnomeville (well, everywhere actually), and you know what that means: GMing links!
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 has been quiet because he's been unveiling DMing.com's new design and crossing his 300-article milestone (go, Yax!), but he had time to post about innovation parties ...
Friday! Glee! GMing links!
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
→ Musings of the Chatty DM: I don't think I'm smart enough to entirely get Chatty’s Debates: Black Box vs Process-Response design, but it has useful things to say about a fundamental difference between types of game mechanics.
→ Roleplaying Tips: Issue ...
So...it's Friday and you'd rather be reading gaming stuff than working, right?
Put on your pink cowboy hat and enjoy our first Gnome Rodeo (or link roundup, if you prefer the boring term).
GMing Regulars
→ Dungeon Mastering: Wish you were reading more RSS feeds about gaming? Holy crap does Yax read a lot of feeds! I feel inadequate.
→ Musings of the Chatty DM: Chatty delves into ways to handle a ...
