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
1,110 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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Two students train at a martial arts school. One fights only students at or below his level, and has an excellent win-loss record. The other fights only students above his level, and has a terrible win-loss record. Which one is learning faster? - Overheard at a martial arts seminar When was the last time you got ...
Despite the well-known enmity between gnomes and kobolds -- AKA scaly halflings -- the Stew hearts Kobold Quarterly. Why? Because it rocks.
KQ is the brainchild of Wolfgang Baur, one of the most famous game designers around, and among the many other irons he has in the fire he publishes the Kobold Guide to Game Design series. Volume III came out in print last Friday, and Wolfgang asked if ...
We have two more pieces of Eureka news to share this week, one today and one on Wednesday. Today, I'm absolutely thrilled to announce that Monte Cook has written the foreword for Eureka, Gnome Stew's upcoming book of adventure plots!
Not "will write," either -- has written. We've read it, it's excellent, and we can't wait for you to read it when the book comes out.
Eureka is Gnome Stew's ...
In what must be the most brazen or naive scheme ever devised by those foul-smelling doglike lizards, some Kobolds have asked us Gnomes to review the latest issue of their magazine, tempting us with a free PDF issue.
Do these Kobolds really think that a new edition means that all the old rivalries are forgotten? Do they think that a simple bribe will make up for past atrocities? Can ...
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Our party's young female fighter -- who was clearly coddled in her upbringing -- has yet to reap the financial rewards of the adventuring life. Yet, she has been steadfastly lawfully good -- certainly she's more idealistic than the rest of the party.
On a good day, she is lucky to have two silver pieces to rub together, and that includes any pay she's received from the toil of ...
