Category: Game Mastering

You’re Deep as a Puddle: Making More Lively PCs and NPCs

Posted by Scott Martin | May 28, 2009 | GMing Advice

When was the last time your players actually...

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The Quest-Giver

Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider | May 27, 2009 | GMing Advice, Tools for GMs

Just about every game has a variant on the...

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Methods of Collaborative Game Mastering

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | May 22, 2009 | GMing Advice

This is part of a Gnome Stew double header....

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My First Attempt At Collaborative Game Mastering

Posted by John Arcadian | May 22, 2009 | GMing Advice

This is part of a Gnome Stew double header....

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You Are Not The Director

Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider | May 21, 2009 | GMing Advice

We gamers commonly use a movie or theater...

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And the Battlegraph Winner Is… (Plus a Cool Tool for First-Time GMs)

Posted by Martin Ralya | May 20, 2009 | Gnome Gnews, Specific RPGs, Tools for GMs

Our first anniversary contest ended last night,...

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D&D Burgoo (3.5): What a charming suggestion

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | May 19, 2009 | GMing Advice, Specific RPGs, Tools for GMs

Gnome Stew reader Noumenon requested the...

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Too Defined A Setting Can Prevent Player Creativity

Posted by John Arcadian | May 18, 2009 | GMing Advice

My current play group, wherein I’m playing...

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Troy’s Crock Pot: Adding to the bookshelf

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | May 15, 2009 | Crock Pot, Tools for GMs

What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of...

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Problem Players

Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider | May 14, 2009 | GMing Advice, Tools for GMs

A few months ago, Tazo asked in the Suggestion...

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Spotlight Review: EpicWords

Posted by Patrick Benson | May 13, 2009 | Reviews, Spotlight, Tools for GMs

Are you one of those gaming geeks who loves to...

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First Anniversary Contest: Win a Set of Battlegraph Dry Erase Tiles

Posted by Martin Ralya | May 12, 2009 | Gnome Gnews, Tools for GMs

To celebrate Gnome Stew’s one-year...

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Four Ways to Make Your Players Happy

Posted by Martin Ralya | May 8, 2009 | GMing Advice

Happy players (and remember, you’re a...

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System Promiscuity

Posted by Phil Vecchione | May 7, 2009 | GMing Advice

I have played a lot of d20.Â I started right...

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Take another look at your group

Posted by Scott Martin | May 6, 2009 | GMing Advice

Our group just launched a parallel game of...

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