So this week, the Gnome Stew blog went live, with a huge opening week. It was quite well received around the RPG blogosphere. I wrote an article on opening day on RPG Arguments. I have another article in the queue that should go out on Tuesday.

So how will Gnome Stew and Encoded Designs work together? I have been thinking about this during the week. I enjoy maintaining my own blog, in both the writing side as well as the actually configuration and administration of the software. I also like having a place where I can post about the games i am currently playing, so that months or even years from now, I can look back and remember those games.  So for those reasons I fully intend to keep Encoded Designs up and running.

On the flip side, I was one of the people who encouraged Martin to take Treasure Tables and make it into a multi-author site. Rather than transforming Treasure Tables, after a hiatus, Martin created Gnome Stew and invited me to contribute. Gnome Stew’s initial success comes from the momentum that Martin created with Treasure Tables with his excellent writing, as well the superb group of contributors and commenters, who frequented the site. Most of those contributors accepted Martin’s invitation and are now Gnomes. I have thought that a multi-author site of the caliber of Treasure Tables would be a sight to behold. If this week’s posts are any indication, Gnome Stew will be a home for excellent GM advice and thought. For all those reasons, I fully intend to keep my Gnome Hat and keep contributing to the Stew.

So how will I put it all together? Well, I am going to keep my Gnome Stew articles strictly focused on GMing techniques and theory. On this blog, I am going to write my Weekend Update, as well as more opinionated pieces about gaming. If there is any ranting to be done, it will be here. I will also use Encoded Designs to do my reviews of books and games, and post my GenCon advice.

I am going to contribute to Gnome Stew every week to 10 days. When I do post on Gnome Stew, I will post a cross link for it here.  For Encoded Designs, I will post my weekend update, and try for two articles a week. One will be a regular article and the other will be a comment piece on a blog article that I read somewhere else on the net.

I hope that clears things up and I hope that you brave few who have this site subscribed to will keep on subscribing, and will also head over to Gnome Stew and have a taste in some really great GMing articles and discussion.  For those of you who are coming in from Gnome Stew, I hope you will subscribe to this site, and enjoy the rest of my content.

Thanks.