First, a bit of sad news. A great tool for visiting lots of RPG blogs has announced that the RPG Blog Alliance network is ending at the end of April. The RPGBA homepage is a great place to discover new blogs. If you’re looking to add more roleplaying blogs to your RSS feed, swing by while...
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Gnome Rodeo! It’s time to don tall boots and prepare to ride the range on our battle sheep. What have our keen eyed scouts found? Skills: I’m a big fan of thinking about skills, but we’ve got a patrol to keep on keepin’ on. Fortunately, there are some mighty thoughtful...
Read MoreYesterday marked the end of Gnome Stew’s first annual New Year, New Game (NYNG) challenge and blog carnival, and today I’m here to share a smorgasbord of excellent blog posts from all over the world about running new...
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Thanksgiving day is over. The fried turkey didn’t burn my house down or even singe me (actually, it was pretty danged tasty), so instead of some amateurish video of me running around, panicking like a sorority girl in a horror movie, you get this very-incomplete list of RPG-related sales. “Stay...
Read MoreGnotes from Gnome Stew HQ RPG Mapping Software For many years, I’ve felt like I wasn’t a true gamer because I didn’t have a world I’d been building since I was a little kid. I’ve built pieces of...
Read MoreGnotes from Gnome Stew HQ GMing Roundup Play a New RPG Month is just what it sounds like: damned good advice for any GM (or player). If you’ve only run, or played, one RPG — or even mainly one RPG — you owe it...
Read MoreGnotes from Gnome Stew HQ The first installment of Martin’s Mentions seemed to go over well, so I’m sticking to that format for this edition. If you have an item to suggest, please email me: martin (at) gnomestew...
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Gnotes from Gnome Stew HQ Now that I’ve resurfaced from working on our second book, Masks, one of the things I want to get back to is posting Gnome Rodeos (link roundups) — but I think the format could use a shakeup and a fresh coat of paint, so I’m relaunching this old regular...
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It’s Black Friday! No, not that kind of Friday. (But now I want to watch that movie again.) And not the kind where nerds stand outside electronic stores in the wee hours, waiting to buy something that will probably cost less in a couple months, either. And no, we’re not talking about the kind of...
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The Stew’s first book, Eureka, is currently nominated for a 2010 Golden Geek Award for Best Supplement, which is crazy awesome for a book with barely a quarter of sales under its belt. Voting for the awards closes 10/31, and if you haven’t voted for Eureka already I’d like to ask...
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