Category: Game Mastering

So How Was That Game With A Gnome?

Posted by Patrick Benson | May 17, 2011 | GMing Advice

Back in April I offered to run a game online for...

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Prep-Lite: Maps

Posted by Phil Vecchione | May 16, 2011 | GMing Advice

In my continuing Kwai Chang Caine-like quest to...

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The first episode of Dark Legacy of Evard

Posted by Scott Martin | May 11, 2011 | GMing Advice, Specific RPGs

A new season begins tonight. It’s not the...

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A Believable Lie about Steampunk

Posted by Matthew J. Neagley | May 10, 2011 | GMing Advice

Steampunk is all the rage these days, but have...

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Spring Cleaning – Change The Genre!

Posted by Patrick Benson | May 6, 2011 | GMing Advice, Tools for GMs

My wife is a neat freak. Spring cleaning never...

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Front-load Your Encounters

Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider | May 5, 2011 | GMing Advice

Gripe all you want about 4E, but I’ve learned...

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How To Have An Epic Campaign In Three Acts (Part 3 of 3)

Posted by Patrick Benson | May 4, 2011 | GMing Advice

You established what an epic campaign is for...

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Driftwood: Hard and Soft Scenes

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | May 3, 2011 | GMing Advice

Driftwood: Hard and Soft Scenes is the first in...

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The Cigar-Box GMing Screen, Six Months Later

Posted by Martin Ralya | May 2, 2011 | Tools for GMs

The Stew’s own Kurt “Telas”...

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How To Have An Epic Campaign In Three Acts (Part 2 of 3)

Posted by Patrick Benson | Apr 27, 2011 | GMing Advice

In the first part of this three part series I...

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More Awesome RPG Background Music: 58 Reader Favorites and New Discoveries

Posted by Martin Ralya | Apr 25, 2011 | GMing Advice

Gnome Stew readers posted so many great...

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Your Gaming Legacy

Posted by Phil Vecchione | Apr 22, 2011 | GMing Advice

GM’s create. It could be a great scene, an...

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How To Have An Epic Campaign In Three Acts (Part 1 of 3)

Posted by Patrick Benson | Apr 20, 2011 | GMing Advice

This is the first of a three part series on how...

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Troy’s Crock Pot: Novels as backdrop, not backbone

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | Apr 12, 2011 | Crock Pot, GMing Advice

Pulp Gamer’s “Out of Character” is on the short...

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Special Powers As Enablers

Posted by John Arcadian | Apr 6, 2011 | GMing Advice

In one convention game I ran, my players got...

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