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Read More"Martin Ralya (TT)" is two people: Martin Ralya, the administrator of and a contributor to Gnome Stew, and a time traveler from the years 2005-2007, when he published the Treasure Tables GMing blog (TT). Treasure Tables got started in the early days of RPG blogging, and when Martin burned out trying to run it solo he shut it down, recruited a team of authors, and started Gnome Stew in its place. We moved all TT posts and comments to Gnome Stew in 2012.
Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 8, 2007 | Approaches and Techniques
The PCs are fighting a tough, dramatic battle....
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The Wiki-to-PDF project ends on February 14th...
Read MorePosted by Martin-TT | Feb 6, 2007 | Products for GMs, Tools
On one of the rare occasions that I watch...
Read MorePosted by Martin-TT | Feb 5, 2007 | Approaches and Techniques, Scenarios
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a fallback...
Read MorePosted by Martin-TT | Feb 4, 2007 | Cons and Events
Via Gaming Report, I just heard about Free RPG...
Read MoreThe Wiki-to-PDF project, one half of which deals...
Read MorePosted by Martin-TT | Feb 2, 2007 | Improving Your GMing, Players
Over on GameCraft, Levi Kornelson pointed out...
Read MorePosted by Martin-TT | Feb 1, 2007 | Cons and Events, Players
After testing the waters yesterday, I decided to...
Read MorePosted by Martin-TT | Jan 31, 2007 | Cons and Events
Looking at what the TT community created on our...
Read MoreA few weeks back, my group played a Stargate...
Read MorePosted by Martin-TT | Jan 29, 2007 | Approaches and Techniques, PCs
In our D&D game this past Saturday night,...
Read MorePosted by Martin-TT | Jan 28, 2007 | GMing Community
Brass Goggles, which I learned about from Wired,...
Read MorePosted by Martin-TT | Jan 27, 2007 | Organization, Prep, Tools
Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger recently...
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