To celebrate Gnome Stew’s one-year anniversary (of the marriage between delicious dead gnome flesh and game mastering, of course!), we’re giving away a set of Battlegraph Dry Erase Tiles courtesy of Longtooth Studios.
Battlegraphs
Battlegraphs are the first commercially available successor to Tact-Tiles, which were one of the best gaming products ever made.
And they look like an excellent successor. They’re modular — they lock together like jigsaw puzzle pieces — and reusable: draw on them with dry-erase markers, then clean them and use them over and over.
You can read about the basics of Battlegraphs for info on size and format, check out photos and demo videos of the tiles in action, and read the Stew’s own exclusive interview with Brian Davison of Longtooth Studios for Q&A and other details.
Also, the Stew’s own DNAphil will be reviewing them here early next week.
The Prize
Thanks to Longtooth Studios, up for grabs is one set of Battlegraph Dry Erase Tiles, shipped anywhere in the world.
I’ve had a chance to see the tiles in person, and they’re spiffy. A set of four runs $24.99, and will let you make a nice 22″ x 22″ square, an 11″ x 44″ rectangle, an L-shape, and other configurations.
The Contest
To enter the contest, all you need to do is comment on this article — that’s it.
If you’re not already a Gnome Stew member, you’ll need to register for a free account. It only takes a minute.
The contest will run from now until 9:00 pm Mountain time on Tuesday, May 19, 2009.
One entry per person, and as always Gnome Stew authors aren’t eligible. You can comment as many times as you like, but only your first comment will count for the contest.
Winning
We’ll choose the winner at random, and post the outcome in a new article sometime next week.
The winner will also be notified by email, and we’ll correspond with you to arrange mailing for your prize — so make sure the email address associated with your Gnome Stew account is valid.
That’s all there is to it! Thanks again to Brian over at Longtooth — and good luck!
Here’s hoping for several more years of stew.
Comment here to win
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Happy first birthday! I’ve gotten a lot out of your site over the last year, and look forward to many more.
Woohoo. I’ll take some of that action, please.
I mostly lurk around (unless I’m brought out of hiding by being enticed with a give-away) but I appreciate the work that goes into writing articles. Thanks Gnomes, looking forward to many more years to come!
Hey look! What’s this? A contest?
Congrats on the one year – looking forward to more!
I just discovered this site a few weeks ago. I registered today, a shameless gesture as I’d love a set of boards.
Thanks for creating a great site, and congrats on a stellar first year!
-Zergo
Love the site, want the boards.
YEAH! 😀 As the first “Sponsor” of your Contests, i’m so glad to see how you’ve grown so fast! 🙂
Good Luck! 🙂
Oh… shiny!
Hap’ Anniversary!
Here’s to another year of great gaming resources!
Who wouldn’t love a set of those delicious boards to help celebrate? Grats on a year!
Pick me, pick me, pick me……
Newbie tabletop gamer here. Hopefully your site will become a common destination for me.
And congrats!
Thanks for the great year gnome stew.
And here’s for hoping for a set of battlegraph tiles, those things look fantastic!
to the city!
What a great product! We use dry erase tiles anyway, but with permanent marker for the grid lines that turns out to be not as permanent as you would like. Keeping my fingers crossed!
These look like great battle boards
Happy birthday Gnome Stew! Here’s hoping I get a present.
Congrats on one year GnomeStew, found you through the @obsidianportal Twitter
I like your website, I like your articles, and I like free stuff. Win/win!
A year old and yet the stew is still fresh?
Mmmm Savory. 😀
Gratz on the ding, Gnomes.
Great site. Loving what you’re doing here. Happy Birthday and keep it up!
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday Gnome Stew,
It’s been a great year,
So here’s to year two!
Happy Birthday Gnome Stew
Happy Birthday Gnome Stew
May the candles on your cake
Burn like cities in your wake
As you head to year two
Show all what you can do
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday
Rock on Gnome Stew…thanks for lots of inspiration and ideas…
Cool site. I just discovered it. Keep up the good work.
Congrats, keep up the great work!
normally… I loathe such contests as they’re just membership drives… but I love the site :).
Happy Birthday Gnomes!!
I can’t believe it’s already been a year!
Keep up the excellent work!
Gnome Stew is absolutely my favorite DM’ing resource. You guys are great! Also: Give me things. 😀
I’m in. Happy birthday.
One year old and still delicious!
Keep up the excellence. And count me in!
Happy birthday, GS, Keep the pot boiling!
found this sight through obsidian portal’s twitter, it looks like a wonderful resource! ill be checking this out more
Happy first year!
Congratulations!
Wow! This contest looks sweet, and I want the product. Good luck to all!
want those boards they make grate jigsaw poozzles
happy birthday!!!1!
Happy Birthday GS! I’ve been loving the articles, and would love to replace my worn out battle mat with some tiles!
Happy Birthday, Gnomes!
🙂
All Hail the Grail of ALL Game boards. Let me ask you a question all ye who may look upon this, Did you know that permanent marker has but one weakness? If you make your own grid, did you know that there is but one thing that can force you to do the mundane task of getting out the old crooked straight edge and forcing you to redraw the perfect lines that you have created??? IT’s TRUE. Take a guess as to what that one thing is… go on… I am a patient guyIT’S DRY ERASE MARKER. Run this little scenario through your heads:
You finish creating the the grid that took you hours to do (literally). Everyone comes around to play in awe with this masterpiece and you smile as the DM starts drawing the first dungeon, you can see that it is complete with a goblin filled table eating the creatures that were stupid enough to walk into the cave. A Grotesque battle ensues. In the end, your team stands victorious as goblins are actually very very VERY easy to kill. Everyone exists the small grotto, and the DM proceeds to erase the creation he had wrought. one pass with the eraser brings everyone to shock and you begin to sniffle as you can’t hold back the dread filled tears gushing through your eyes. There is a cavern shaped outline in the grid. Now, everyone looks at you in disgust. “How dare you!” They whisper in unison. Before you know it, you are kicked out of the party and begging people on the street that you have a chance to join one of their games, but lo, word has spread, and your level eight ranger with the quirk to do a knowledge of nature check every five seconds is never going to see if that pendant you got at level five was actually magical or not, and you will never know what that Etton’s second head was really trying to tell you (by the way, he could speak common, you just never even tried to listen). All of this because you tried to be cool and make your own dry erase board. It didn’t even have jigsaw edges.
It is for this reason, that this board is probably one of… nay, IS the best invention EVER, screw you Thomas Edison, we don’t need your electricity. Dungeons and Dragons is an AWEsome game, and with this board the game would be even Aasimar (sorry I had to).
Dear Gnome Stew: Congratulations on the first year of amazing service and fantastic products, may the Almighty come to bless you and keep you going strong.
Sincerely,
Mazer2002
(P.S. it was magical, it would teleport you wherever you wanted to go with only a fingernail full of cat tail, and a little bit of love to lead the way.)
I’d like to enter!
Congrats guys!
Do Want!
Congrats on a wonderful year!
Happy B-day \m/
Happy Anniversary to all the Gnomes !
Your first year has been a great success and I’m excited to see what you’ll accomplish in your 2nd year.
And of course I’d love to win that Battlegraph set.
K
Happy anniversary! Those battlemats look way cool.
John Gallagher
Congratulations, Gnome Stew! I’ve mostly been lurking, but this is a worthy successor to Treasure Tables.