Please join us in welcoming a new addition to the management team here at Gnome Stew – our new co-Headgnome Angelay Murray! You know Angela from her many phenomenal articles on the site and as the de-facto host of the Gnomecast. Angela will now be joining John as co-Headgnome and will be...

RPGs, like great historical dramas of imaginary history, tend to focus on the grand exploits of those whose names make it into the books: kings, queens, popes, caliphs, charlatans, and generals. But those are just the faces at the front; no movement, no city, no kingdom is possible without vast...

Pretty much as soon as 1) the internet and 2) roleplaying games were both widely accessible things, people were playing roleplaying games on the internet. Even without the definition of a singular roleplaying game or ruleset, how many of us gamers today got our start in places like freeform forum...

I have a confession. I really, really like werewolves. Way back in time, I thought Vampire: the Masquerade was neat, but vampires weren’t really my thing. Then someone handed me a copy of the first edition of Werewolf: the Apocalypse (with the paper cover that had the claw marks cut out of...

  Hey Gnome Stew Fans! We’ve got some exciting news for you. Gnome Stew is making some introductory forays into Twitch streaming and video content. We’re starting with a one shot game called Mortzengersturm, the Mad Manticore of the Prismatic Peak! The game will run live on...

I’ve written about the agony and frustration of organizing a gaming group before, offering advice on how to coordinate schedules and expressing my frustration when the rest of the group isn’t on the same page. Recently, I was talking with a friend about this subject again and we were commiserating...