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I received two emails recently about items I think will interest Gnome Stew readers, both from friends of the Stew: Shelly Baur of Kobold Quarterly and Open Design and Jonathan Jacobs of Nevermet Press.
Kobold Quarterly Anniversary Sale
This Sunday is the 5th anniversary of Open Design, the company behind Kobold Quarterly and numerous Open Design projects, including Midgard, and to celebrate the filthy lizards kobolds are having a sale.
Specifically, ...
If you are like me you are always looking for new material to inject into your games. The more versatile the source material the better, and Brother Ptolemy & The Hidden Kingdom is just that: versatile source material that you can easily plug into your current campaign. The Hidden Kingdom is the first print offering from Nevermet Press and according to the press release for the product’s launch ...
Along with Engine Publishing, which will be putting out Gnome Stew's upcoming book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, and Silvervine Games, the RPG company founded by gnome and Eureka author John Arcadian, the Stew is proud to be a sponsor of Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Volume 2. (Say that 10 times fast!)
Open Game Table is the second in a series ...
The Desire is a full color 57 page PDF for Fourth Edition D&D by Nevermet Press (www.nevermetpress.com). (Also included was a grayscale PDF, oriented in Portrait, intended for easy printing. That's a nice feature, though one I didn't take advantage of.) Please note that the PDFs were freely provided by the publisher for review purposes.
Structure The PDF begins with a blurb about Nevermet Press followed by A Message ...
Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Volume 2, will be entering development shortly, and the nomination period for entries is open through December 31st.
Last time around, the gnomes missed this entire process, soup to nuts. We found out two of our articles had been nominated for OGT Volume 1 after the fact. They made it to the final book, and it's an excellent book: 40+ ...
