Posts Tagged by monte cook
| September 15, 2011 | Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider |
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 out of your safe zone and tried something new? Were you any good at it? Did you learn from your mistakes pretty quickly, and get better? Or did you…
| June 21, 2010 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
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 I’d like to write a GMing article about this volume, which is subtitled “Tools & Techniques.”…
| May 10, 2010 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
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 upcoming first book — here’s the first Eureka teaser, and the bios for our contributors.…
| February 16, 2010 | Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider |
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 Kurtulmak take a joke? (Heck no.) Greed and curiosity trumped Gnomish pride, so I accepted their…
| May 30, 2009 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Today’s surprise weekend article is brought to you by the word “open.” DMing Tools: Get a Free Copy of Open Game Table For May 31 and June 1 only, if you sign up for (or upgrade to) a premium account on the DMing Tools website offered by Dungeon Mastering, you get a free copy of Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Volume 1 (which retails for $22.95). Open Game Table Open Game Table is the first prominent collection of RPG blog content…
| March 24, 2009 | Posted by Troy E. Taylor |
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 her day job as a tanner. In contrast to the other party members, she’s really struggling…
