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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 1,109 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.

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Sep 8, 2009 by 14

Railroading – It Encourages Nothing

In a recent game that a friend ran we were railroaded as players. The game was a science fiction setting using Savage Worlds, and I and the one other player were both playing PCs who had arranged passage on a small starship. While the ship was docked at a space station the PCs were in private living quarters minding their own business. Panicked pounding on the door to ...
Oct 16, 2008 by 8

A Game Gone Right

Last week my game group had one of our most fun sessions in a while. I'll try not to bore you with too many details [it's not just your character that you should avoid talking about at length] and we'll see if there's anything more generally useful we can pry out of the experience. The current status of the PCs The group consists of five eighth level PCs [in D&D3.5], ...

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