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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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Aug 1, 2011 by 4

Review: Courts Of The Shadow Fey

A while back (quite a while back actually) I was given a complimentary PDF copy of Courts of the Shadow Fey for review purposes. The concept was interesting and I was looking for an excuse to get my group to give 4th ed. D&D a valid try. My goal was to give the mini-campaign a decent play test. Sadly, before my group could get familiar enough with 4th ...
Jan 10, 2011 by 4

Midgard: A New Open Design Campaign Setting from Wolfgang Baur, Jeff Grub, and Brandon Hodge

A couple of days ago, Shelly Baur, the other half of Wolfgang Baur's Kobold Quarterly and Open Design empire, emailed me to ask if I'd be interested in running a piece on a project they'd be announcing on the 9th, and I asked what I always ask: "Will it be of interest to GMs?" She said yes, and that in fact GMs in particular would be interested. That was ...
Jun 21, 2010 by 6

The Kobold Guide to Game Design, Volume III: Thinking About Design Can Make You a Better GM

Despite the well-known enmity between gnomes and kobolds -- AKA scaly halflings -- the Stew hearts Kobold Quarterly. Why? Because it rocks. KQ is the brainchild of Wolfgang Baur, one of the most famous game designers around, and among the many other irons he has in the fire he publishes the Kobold Guide to Game Design series. Volume III came out in print last Friday, and Wolfgang asked if ...
May 30, 2009 by 3

DMing Tools’ Open Game Table Promotion, and the Open Design Podcast

Today's surprise weekend article is brought to you by the word "open." DMing Tools: Get a Free Copy of Open Game Table For May 31 and June 1 only, if you sign up for (or upgrade to) a premium account on the DMing Tools website offered by Dungeon Mastering, you get a free copy of Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Volume 1 (which retails for $22.95). Open ...

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