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D&D Burgoo: Making a Setting Your Own
Want to know the secret to making a game world...
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Hot Button: The Unexpected Player
You’ve spent the week preparing for your...
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Gnome Rodeo: Lust for Links
Instead of, ahem, resting your eyes at your desk...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Too much of a good thing
What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering...
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Short Sessions: Cutaway Scene
A few years ago, I found myself with a quandry....
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GMing for Weight Loss
Gaming is a fairly sedentary activity, and the...
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GMs Should be Raging Kleptomaniacs
When it comes to your campaign, if you come...
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D&D Burgoo (3.5): It’s time to panic. We don’t have a cleric.
The players have gathered at their table for...
Read MoreD&D 4e: Answers to Gnome Stew Readers’ Questions
In Boss Around the Gnomes, I asked Gnome Stew...
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A GM’s First Impressions of D&D 4e: Looks Like Fun
With D&D 4th Edition launching today,...
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You Can Take Our Status as a PC Race, But You Can’t Take Our FREEEEEEDOOOOOMMMM!
Big News! Today’s big news, of course:...
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Hot Button: Roleplay vs. Rollplay
Heh, that title alone should probably spawn 50...
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Gnome Rodeo: Pardon Me, But Do You Have Any GMing Links?
It’s been a great week for GMing content...
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The Main Cast Rule
When you’re watching an episodic TV show...
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