Gnomecast
A rotating cast of gnomes from Gnome Stew (the award winning gaming blog) get together to talk table top role playing games, game mastering, and playing games. It's a gaming gab off to avoid becoming part of the stew.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 55
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Gnomecast #200 – Why We Do This
Join us for our 200th episode of the Gnomecast, as we talk about why we do this. What’s this? Giving gaming advice on Gnome Stew and this podcast. And who’s we? A bunch of gnomes who could take a li…
Gnomecast #199 – RPGs for the Spooky Season
Join Ang along with Jared and JT as they talk about how to bring the spooky to your table as we get deep into the Halloween season.
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Gnomecast #198 – How Do You Like Your Stakes?
Join Ang, Josh and Carl Lehman as they talk about setting stakes for your games and how to keep your players and their characters invested and involved.
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Gnomecast #197 – Brand New Players
Join Ang, Tomas and Walt as they talk about bringing brand new players into the hobbies. Tips, tricks, and things to keep in mind as you introduce the hobby to someone for the first time.
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Gnomecast #196 – Two GM Slip Ups
Join Ang, Jared and Chris as they talk about two common slip ups GMs make while running our games and how to recover from them.
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Gnomecast #195 – Rob Heinsoo & the Overenthusiastic Fan
Join Jared as he gets together with Rob Heinsoo. In between moments of being an excited and extremely enthusiastic fan, Jared talks to him about 13th Age and all things gaming!
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Gnomecast #194 – Multi-table Games
Join Ang, along with guests Carl Lehmann and Alex Thomas where they talk about organizing and running multi-table games! These can be a lot of fun, but require a different kind of organization and c…
Gnomecast #193 – GMing for Turtles
Join Ang, Josh, and Phil as they talk about GMing for Turtles. No, not those charming reptiles with a house on their back, but the players that end up not wanting to engage with what you’re putting …
Gnomecast #192 – The Art of Pregen Characters
Join Ang, JT, and guest Andy Jaksetic as they talk about the art of pregenerated characters. They cover everything from why you would want pre-made characters to what details you need to give your p…
Gnomecast #191 – Running Factions
Join Ang, Josh, and Tomas as they talk about running factions in your campaigns. Everything from how to create them, how to connect them, and how to use them for your players.
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Magnolia: Cit…
Gnomecast #190 – Beginning Campaigns Comfortably
Join Ang and Josh, along with guest Carl Lehmann as they talk about finding your sweet spot on what you need to begin a campaign comfortably and confidently.
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Gnomecast #189 – Kobayashi Maru: Unwinnable Scenarios
Ang, Jared and Chris get on the mics to talk about unwinnable scenarios. Why to run them, how to run them, and everything in between!
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Gnomecast #188 – Imposter Syndrome and RPGs
Ang, Jared and Senda chat about how Imposter Syndrome has affected their relationship with running and playing RPGs along with some ideas on how to navigate through those feelings.
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Gnomecast #187 – Learning About the OSR
Ang gets JT and Walt on the mics to learn more about what the OSR (Old School… Renaissance? Revival? Retro? The R varies) actually is. Join us and learn more about this style of roleplaying game.
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Gnomecast #186 – Mixing Genres
Ang, Chris and Josh chat about mixing up genres in our RPGs and as a result touch on what genre is, and why we can and should mash it all up together!
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Gnomecast #185 – Taking Over
Ang, Jared, and JT get together on the mics to talk about all the ins and outs of taking over the GMing duties in an existing group.
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Gnomecast #184 – D&D and Me
In honor of D&D’s 50th Anniversary, a whole bunch of Gnomes get on the mics to talk about our history with this venerable game. Prepare for a little nostalgia and musings about this hobby we all love…
Gnomecast #183 – New Players, New Characters
Ang, JT and Senda chat about the logistics of adding new players to your groups and new characters to your games.
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Mythulu Cards
Xenolanguage
Coriolis: The Great Dark Kickstarter
Savage Worlds…
Gnomecast #182 – Video Games to RPGs
Ang, Jared and Josh get together and talk about what we can take from video games and apply to the RPGs we bring to the table.
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Jared’s Marvel Multiverse RPG Extended Objectives
Gnomecast #181 – Bridgett Jeffries, Community Coordinator
Ang welcomes Bridgett Jeffries, Chaosium Community Coordinator to the Stew, where they talk about what that role means to the modern gaming community. Also, horror games and how our tastes change!
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