Welcome to the RPG Blog Carnival!
Below you’ll be able to visit the locations the carnival has been traveling lately and find a wide range of topics and related posts. The carnival has been running for several years, and you can find the full listing of locations and topic in the RPG Blog Carnival Archive.
Have a blog of your own? Interested in contributing to the magic of the carnival? Skip to the bottom and see how.
We need hosts for 2025!
Signup at https://forms.gle/BEeU3ZCqfzSMoarP6. (Please note, this is a Google form and all information collected is only used for the administration of the RPG Blog Carnival.)
This Month’s RPG Blog Carnival
- The Haves and Have Nots, The Forsaken Garden
Last Month’s Carnival
- Horror Movie Marathon, The Other Side
2024 Carnivals
- January – World Building, of Dice and Dragons (round-up)
- February – Illusions & Delusions, Illusory Sensorium (round-up)
- March – Feasts, Foods and Fancy Drinks, oh my!, Vdonnut Valley (round-up)
- April – Celebrating your favorite setting, Codex Anathema (round-up)
- May – It’s not easy being green, RPG Wandering (round-up)
- June – After the Dragon: What happens after the monster attack, and after they are defeated? – Sea of Stars (round-up)
- July – WORDS! Etymology, Onomatology and Linguistics, Beneath Foreign Planets (round-up)
- August – It Came From Beyond Time, Seed of Worlds
- September – Wondrous Weapons and Damning Dweomers, Attronarch’s Athenaeum (round-up)
- October – Horror and Fantasy, The Other Side
- November – The Haves and Have Nots: Writing social classes in fantasy worlds, The Forsaken Garden
- December – Beyond Vancian Magic, Elemental Reductions
2025 Carnivals
- January – TBD
- February – TBD, Sea of Stars
- March – TBD
- April – Magic and the City, Codex Anathema
- May – TBD
- June – TBD
- July – TBD
- August – TBD
- September – TBD
- October – Other Worlds, In My Campaign
- November – TBD
- December – TBD
Check out all the past locations and topics in the archive.
Why Participate
Blogger carnivals are a way for a group of bloggers to all simultaneously write about the same topic. They are a great way to build community and dialogue across many different blogs at once.
This benefits fans and readers of those blogs because they have the opportunity to explore lots of different viewpoints in a short period of time. It also benefits the bloggers because they get new readers to stop by. It also helps with SEO. Everyone wins.
How to Participate
Have a blog? Want to write for the RPG Bloggers Carnival? Easy – just write a post on the current month’s topic, and in your post link to the Host’s blog post that announced the topic (see below). You can also drop by their blog and leave a comment on the announcement post.
That’s it. At the end of the month, the Host will write a round-up and include a link back to your article.
How To Host A Carnival
If you are the host of the carnival, then plan on writing two posts at a minimum.
The first post announces the topic of the carnival – which is up to you! After all, you’re the host! Sometime, people also optionally blog about the topic in the same post they made the announcement. Personally, I prefer to break it up so that the announcements come on the first of the month, leaving you time to develop your post later in the month. Your mileage may vary. Take a look at some of the previous carnivals to get some ideas. In general, it may also be a good idea to include a link to this Archive page for your readers to check out.
Your second post should be a “round-up” of the Carnival. This usually comes during the following month. You can at a minimum simply have a bare-bones post that links back to all the articles written by other blogs on the topic; or you can write a meaty discussion piece that links out to all the posts AND discusses the topics from your point of view. It’s pretty open / flexible – whatever works for you is OK, but the key thing is the “round up” should include links to all the blogs who participated in the Carnival you hosted.
Topic Ideas If You Are Stuck
- RPG Software & Tools
- Law & Order
- Mysteries
- Monsters
- Under The Water
- Forests & Jungles
- Deserts, Dunes and Shores
- Economics
- Criminal Organizations
- Low-Powered Adventures
- Mashups
- Weird Science
- Pre-Written Adventures
- Horror
- Military
- Aerial Adventures
Participating blogs (hosts and contributors) for each RPG Blog Carnival are encouraged to use the ‘official’ logo (shown below) when posting content related to the carnival. The logo was decided by popular vote and was designed by Reis O’Brien of the blog, Geek Orthodox. You can link to the image via the HTML code fragment listed below, or download them and use them.
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