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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 1,110 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
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Oct 1, 2010 by 17

My Theory for RPG Design & Good GMing

My nine month hiatus from Gnome Stew was spent designing my own role playing game rules and setting using the Fudge system.  Over the next few months I will be taking that material and publishing it to one of my sites with the intent of opening the project up to the public.  This personal project taught me two wonderful lessons: 1)  I like designing RPGs, but I ...
Jul 22, 2010 by 8

Quit Trolling and Start Rolling

Gamers love a good bull session. Conjecture and discussion are as important to us as Cheetos and Mountain Dew (or Dr Pepper for the Texans among us). Hell, the very core of tabletop RPGs is playing 'what if?'. And one of our favorite topics is the theories behind RPGs However, this love of theory can actually detract from your GMing, especially if endless discussions of theory distract ...

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