Once again I explore the RPG Blog Carnival topic of the month… Gates & Portals (hosted by Tales of a GM). This has been another fun topic to explore and today we’ll take a look at those guards protecting these doors, gates, and other portals through the realms… Guardians! As you arrive at the gate,…
This month, Tales of a GM has kicked off a fun topic for the RPG Blog Carnival… Gates and Portals. Whether you take them literally as physical gates and doors or abstractly as storytelling techniques, this is a subject that offers lots of room to explore. So today let’s take a look at a common…
Another month begins and we have another fantastic topic to explore from the RPG Blog Carnival… Gates and Portals from Tales of a GM. Such a simple concept – a doorway into or out of a place. But doors can be amazing vehicles for story to creep in. In this post, I’m going to use…
Seems a simple question, right? “What’s in the box?” And yet, it can have so many answers – just ask Schrödinger’s cat! This post continues the strange vein I’ve been exploring for James Introcaso’s RPG Blog Carnival topic this month –“Homebrew Holiday Gifts”. Let’s take a simple three step process like I’ve used with the Little Spaces…
Continuing in the vein of James Introcaso’s RPG Blog Carnival topic for this month – “Homebrew Holiday Gifts” – I had another weird thought. (It happens a lot, I assure you.) Past lives. It’s not one of those topics I see brought up much in RPGs, but one I think has an insane number of…
Today’s entry in the December RPG Blog Carnival from James Introcaso at the World Builders Blog goes into the darkness a little. A good friend of mine showed me this image and made the suggestion that perhaps I explore the angle of someone or something evil giving gifts for nefarious purposes. This actually came up…
Continuing my more literal approach to the RPG Blog Carnival from James at the World Builder blog, I was pondering some of the more innocuous gifts that might be delivered to a PC’s doorstep. Sometimes gifts can simply be part of a local tradition or a thank you… but sometimes they can have a more…
Though the RPG Blog Carnival from James Introcaso at the World Builder Blog has to do with “Homebrew Holiday Gifts” this month, my brain honestly went a completely different way than I think he intended. 🙂 Every gaming world has two types of characters: PCs and NPCs. And if the party has done its job,…
This month’s blog carnival is being hosted by Johnn Four at Roleplaying Tips – Cursed Items and Calamities in your Campaigns. He’s opened up Pandora’s Box, asking bloggers to write about the ways curses have found their way into their campaigns over the years and any ideas they would like to share. My Take on…
Nils over at Enderra has taken on the January 2015 RPG Blog Carnival with a great topic… A New Year, A New World. How do you run an exploratory campaign? What techniques do you use to create your worlds? Who is doing the exploring? Tons of great open-ended questions to inspire writers like yours truly…
