Posts Tagged by the gnomes

Gnome Gnews

Gnome Stew is thrilled to welcome a new author to the team: Don Mappin. We think you’ll love what he has in store for you. Welcome to the Stew, Don! In addition to being an RPG industry veteran, Don’s a longtime friend of mine, and we game together every week. Here’s his bio, so you can get an idea of where he’s coming from: For nearly 30 years role-playing games have been a staple of Don’s life — so that means he’s pretty old. In…

walt-xmas

Gnome Stew will be taking a holiday break starting December 24th, and returning to normal on January 5th. But don’t despair: There will be new articles appearing regularly while we’re on hiatus (in the form of us gnomes revisiting our favorite ones from the archives), with the possible exception of New Year’s Day (when we’ll all be so sloshed even WordPress won’t help us). There are over 260 GMing articles on Gnome Stew to explore while we’re away/asleep/drunk, as well as hundreds and hundreds of…

100grumbles

Welcome the first in an ongoing series here on the Stew: 100-Word Solutions to GMing Problems! Every 100-Word Solutions post gets its start as a question I email out to the gnomes — a GMing conundrum of some sort. Here’s the first one: “You completely spaced out on game prep — it’s 30 minutes before your players show up for tonight’s game — an ongoing campaign — and you realize you’ve done zero prep. What do you do?” Our solutions are below (“What Would the…