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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 1,109 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.

"I check Gnome Stew every day." -- Monte Cook
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Mar 11, 2011 by 21

Game With A Gnome

An idea has buzzing about in my head for quite a while now, and I want to see it become a reality. I would like to host an online game for three Gnome Stew readers using ScreenMonkey and Skype. The game system will be Fudge with a few of my own variations to the rules. The setting is science fiction inspired by the film Blade Runner, and the ...
Dec 13, 2010 by 7

The Game Outside The Game

Years ago, before the Stew was cooking, I read a great essay by Richard Garfield written for The Horsemen of the Apocalypse anthology discussing how he came up with the idea of Magic:The Gathering. In the essay, he talked about the idea of playing the game outside of the game...a metagame, and how the metagame intensified the game. That got me thinking about Metagaming in RPG’s. It’s Not This... So ...
Oct 8, 2008 by 13

Free, Online Publisher Support: A GM’s Expectations

As a GM, when I buy a new RPG I expect the publisher to provide the following support for free: Website for the game. At a minimum, this should include news, a release schedule and links or info where I can buy supplements. But it should do a whole lot more... A sample. Sure, I've already bought the book -- but this might have been the reason why. And even ...

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