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.
"I check Gnome Stew every day." -- Monte Cook
"fantastic blog for game masters, dungeon masters, and rpg fans" -- Wil Wheaton
"If you aren’t reading Gnome Stew, you’re missing out." -- Wolfgang Baur
Welcome to our final article of 2011, my twice-yearly State of the Stew rundown on our stats, milestones, and so forth for the past year. We do one of these in December and one in May (the site's birthday), and while they don't make for scintillating read or appeal to everyone, I'm a big believer in marking milestones, I enjoy reading these kinds of posts when other sites ...
Hello, DNAphil here. Normally articles about the direction of Gnome Stew are done by our Gnome In Chief, Martin. This week starts the big layout crunch for Masks and Martin is sequestered away helping to put the final touches on what we are expecting to be a worthy sequel to Eureka. So while Martin is locked away pouring over text, I am going to take a few hundred ...
Today is the Stew's third anniversary! We launched on May 12, 2008, with almost the same lineup of gnomes but a whooole lot fewer readers, articles, comments, and subscribers.
It's been a fun three years, and we hope you're having as much fun reading the Stew as we are publishing articles here. We just crossed article number 900, and we're on our way to 1,000!
The real news today is ...
I write two of these State of the Stew articles each year: one at the end of the calendar year, and one around our anniversary. Those dates are conveniently about six months apart, which is good spacing for a snapshot. (Past State of the Stew articles live here.)
Gnome Stew went live on May 12, 2008, which is actually hard to believe -- it's such a part of my ...
Today, Gnome Stew celebrates its second birthday! We launched the site on May 12, 2008, exactly two years ago.
It's been a great two years -- more awesome than I could ever have expected in every way. And it feels totally different than working on a solo blog: There's just no substitute for being part of a killer team.
I never quite know how interesting these State of the Stew ...
This is the end of Gnome Stew's second calendar year (we launched on May 12, 2008), so it's time for another State of the Stew! (Past State of the Stew articles live here.)
In 2008, we surpassed all of the milestones I thought we might approach, and I wasn't sure what things would look like in 2009. To say that 2009 turned out to be a good year would ...
Today, Gnome Stew turns one year old -- we launched on May 12, 2008.
We're rocking our anniversary with a contest, which has its own article. Check it out and enter for a chance to win a set of Battlegraph combat tiles.
At the close of 2008, when I did the last State of the Stew, we were going like gangbusters. After 12 months, we've passed every milestone I hoped ...
When Gnome Stew launched on May 12th, 2008, we had a bit more than 60 registered members and 250 RSS and email subscribers (thanks to some pre-launch buzz).
In the 7.5 months since then, we've reached a level of readership that far exceeds anything I had expected. To put these numbers in perspective, it took my first GMing blog, Treasure Tables, two years to reach roughly the point the ...
