In November 2024 we revived the November 2022 Engine GM Guides Bundle featuring six gamemastering guides from Engine Publishing that help improve your skill in running any RPG. Written by the experienced GMs at the widely read gamemastering blog Gnome Stew and by many of the field’s leading RPG designers, Engine’s system-neutral guides show how to prepare and run a game session, conjure interesting characters and storylines, manage an ongoing campaign, and (ahem) improvise when your players gleefully destroy your game sessions, characters, storylines, and campaign.
Martin Ralya, Head Gnome of Gnome Stew, founded Engine Publishing in 2009 to publish the first of these guides, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters. The Gnomes compiled five more guides in the next six years, each a standout success. In 2016 Martin left Gnome Stew, and in 2019 he handed off Engine Publishing to fellow Gnome alumnus Phil Vecchione at Encoded Designs. Encoded still sells these GM guides under the Engine imprint.
This revived November 2022 Engine GM Guides Bundle once again presented the complete six-book collection for less than the retail price of one guide. There were six complete gamemastering treatises in this revived offer’s Engine Collection (retail value $78) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks:
- Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Gamemasters
- Focal Point: The Complete Game Master’s Guide to Running Extraordinary Sessions
- Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game
- Never Unprepared: The Complete Game Master’s Guide to Session Prep
- Odyssey: The Complete Game Master’s Guide to Campaign Management
- Unframed: The Art of Improvisation for Game Masters
Check the free .PDF previews of all six books at the Engine website.
