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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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Apr 9, 2010 by 6

GenCon Registration Tips

This Sunday, April 11th, will be a day that for many gamers will be punctuated with outbursts of both anger and joy.  For those of you attending GenCon this year, April 11th is Event Registration. GenCon registration is always frustrating, but with our tips, hopefully you will navigate through RUBI with ease, and possibly wind up with a few events that you were hoping for. The most important thing ...
Apr 19, 2009 by 4

GenCon Registration 2009: RUBI System = Best Reg So Far

This will be my 10th GenCon (I started in '97, and missed '98, '01, and '08), and every year for the past several years registration has been a whirlwind of testicle-smashing pain. Not this year. It started off looking pretty shitty -- the site's interface for event searches, and especially for sorting, sucks. Without gencon.highprogrammer.com, my group would have had a much poorer reg experience. And I whined about event ...
Apr 19, 2009 by 14

RUBI’s Big Day

We all love GenCon, but few of us can say that they love Event Registration.  As a rite of passage, surviving Event Registration is one of the first steps on the path of GenCon nirvana. In years past, the Event Registration process has been agonizing with  sever timeouts and customers trapped in the payment system.  This year, GenCon LLC has rolled out RUBI, their new Registration system.  There have ...

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