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“O” is For Old School: Review of The Dungeon Alphabet
Get your bull’s-eye lantern, a 10 ft pole,...
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Parallel Stories
As a GM, you have access to a lot of information...
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Want to Become an Editor for Wizards of the Coast?
Andy Collins, Wizards of the Coast’s RPG...
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Heroes in Horror: When GM expectations and PC design don’t mix
A modern variant of the mythical “grim and...
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“10 Good Hits” An Alternate Hit Point System To Control Combat Pacing And Drama
While talking with a friend about a game system...
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D&D Burgoo: Second Cities (Hardby)
This is one in a periodic series of articles...
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Gnome Stew Crushes Facebook Under Our Diminutive Felt Boots
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A Community of Gamers
I recently volunteered to run a couple of...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: You Can’t Take It With You
One of the most intriguing – not to mention...
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A No-Brainer: Donate $20 to Haiti Relief, Get $1,400 in Gaming PDFs
OneBookShelf, which runs RPGNow and DriveThruRPG...
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Free Stuff: Biohazard, an Amethyst Adventure
Dais Ex Machina (DEM) Games has just released a...
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GMing Traps
Trap: 2 a : something by which one is caught or...
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Use PC Backgrounds as a Roadmap for Campaign Design
I’m a big proponent of using everything my...
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Gnome Rodeo: 2010 is Blowing up with GMing Links
Gnome Rodeos are the Stew’s periodic link...
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