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Troy’s Crock Pot: Template terrain
What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of...
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D&D Is Like a Crazy Ex I Keep Going Back To
Last year, my group had two simultaneous...
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Enabling Player Fun – Start Your Next Campaign With An Epic List
When I get the chance to be a player I am...
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Video Gnoments, Episode III: Puzzles
In this episode I talk about how to use three...
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A Low-Impact Way to Support Gnome Stew
When we upgraded Gnome Stew from shared web...
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Pulling the Trigger on NPC Timelines
A few weeks back I wrote about how to quickly...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Playing a dragon
What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of...
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Hot Button: Rerolling Failures
Have you ever had this happen at a game? “I roll...
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Midgard: A New Open Design Campaign Setting from Wolfgang Baur, Jeff Grubb, and Brandon Hodge
A couple of days ago, Shelly Baur, the other...
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Gnome Stew in Portuguese
Thanks to CF of the Brazilian RPG site .20, you...
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[News] Gnome Stew Upgraded to a New Server on January 9th
If you’re reading this, then DNS has...
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Gming Concept Garage Sale, 2011
Somehow it seems surreal that we’re on the third...
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Game Balance, or “How to Downgrade a Paladin”
Balance is something that you need in your...
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I Hate the Ice Level
It never fails. You’re playing a platformer...
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