Posts Tagged by YMIAT

Gnome Gnews

Not to take away from today’s excellent Too Defined A Setting Can Prevent Player Creativity article, nor to detract from Gnome Stew’s awesome First Anniversary Contest where you can win a set of Battlegraph Dry Erase Tiles, but one of my other projects is a little web site called You Meet In A Tavern and we are having a contest over there with prizes. Why not share the wealth and give you Gnome Stew readers a chance to get in on the action, eh?  Root for the Underdog!…

GMingAdvice01

Maybe those old games really weren’t that bad…? A regular on YouMeetInATavern.com, Longcoat000, posted a comment that triggered a flood of memories and nostalgia. In a long and tangential discussion (my favorite kind, and one of the best aspects of YMIAT.com), I half-jokingly mentioned how nearly all gamers go through a phase of overcomplicating their games by tacking on all kinds of additional rules, which is usually followed by a phase of falling in love with indie games, and then analyzing the fun right out…

Being a gnome has its perks. Snazzy felt hat, early access to next season’s hottest lawn ornaments, plus I get to promote my other web sites shamelessly. This is one of those shameless promotions. Announcing YouMeetInATavern.com’s first contest: “Can You Scare Us?” With Halloween fast approaching the YMIAT staff wants to be scared! Do you have what it takes to terrify us? Can you design a horrifying monster or villain? If so, enter our “Can You Scare Us?” Halloween contest and you’ll have the chance…