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

Beyond Vancian Magic, Elemental Reductions

Last Month’s Carnival

The Haves and Have Nots, The Forsaken Garden

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 Movie Marathon, 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 – Other, Between, and Under – The Worlds Beyond, VDonnut Valley
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 – Why is my Party so weird?, A Swamp in Space
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.

To be an RPG Carnival host for a month, contact me and let me know what month you’d like to host for and the topic for that month’s carnival.

Sign up using the Google form at: http://bit.ly/rpg-carnival-signup (Please note that any information collected via the form is for the administration of the RPG Blog Carnival only.)

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

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