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New Year, New Game Challenge: How’s it Going for You? 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
One of Gnome Stew's side projects is New Year, New Game (NYNG), an annual challenge to GMs: Run a new game this year. You can read more about this challenge on the NYNG site, if you're curious. Reade...
Five Minutes into the Future 26 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
One of the problems with contemporary games is that they tend to be static. Unless you're venturing into the realm of alternate history, everybody realizes that SuperDuperVillain's Satellite Death Ray...
What I Did On My Summer Vacation – 2013 23 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Every year at this time I write my Gen Con recap, which is often a list of things I saw, people I met, and games I played. This year I am going to save that for G+. Instead, I want to sum up some GMin...
Mind Mapping Game Prep 22 Aug 2013 | 12:21 pm
Mind Mapping is an information organizing technique, also called web mapping, concept mapping, spider mapping, or spray mapping. It involves building a fairly free-form web of related concepts with pa...
Mind Mapping Game Prep 22 Aug 2013 | 12:21 pm
Mind Mapping is an information organizing technique, also called web mapping, concept mapping, spider mapping, or spray mapping. It involves building a fairly free-form web of related concepts with pa...
Thank you, Gnome Stew readers! 22 Aug 2013 | 08:44 am
Thanks to you, the readers of Gnome Stew, the Stew took home not one but TWO ENnie Awards this year: Gold for Best Blog and Gold for Best Website! Thank you so much for your support! I've said it ma...
Reality Check 21 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
“I reject your reality, and substitute my own.” - Paul Bradford, The Dungeonmaster (later quoted by Mythbuster Adam Savage) Matt’s recent article on reality got me thinking. We game masters define or...
Reality Check 21 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
“I reject your reality, and substitute my own.” - Paul Bradford, The Dungeonmaster (later quoted by Mythbuster Adam Savage) Matt’s recent article on reality got me thinking. We game masters define or...
Troy’s Crock Pot: Politics in campaign downtime 19 Aug 2013 | 04:18 pm
I'm in the process of digesting Ultimate Campaign, the latest hardcover GMing sourcebook from Paizo Publishing. Even if you don't rpg the Pathfinder way, much of the book's subsystems aren't slaves t...
Who Are You Trying to Impress? 16 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Two quick stories: My wife watches a fair amount of "redecorating television," and I'll admit to being sucked into a show or two. One of the recurring plots of this type of show involves designers wh...
