October 2013 Blog Carnival: Spooky Spots! The Wrap-up

The goblins and ghouls have retreated, the cleric has blessed the unholy ground and the realms sleep soundly thinking they’re safe . . . . . I want to thank all that participated in the very first blog carnival hosted here at of Dice and Dragons. It was a fun experience for me and while…

The Clearing in the Woods

(The following is my contribution to this month’s Blog Carnival, Spooky Spots!) There’s a place few go. It’s avoided by even the most hardiest of individual. A place where dark things are welcome. The clearing in the woods. Just outside of town there’s a spot where the old game trail opens up and during the…

October 2013 Blog Carnival: Spooky Spots!

UPDATE: The Carnival has closed, thanks to those that contributed. Be sure to check out the wrap-up post with links to all the blogs and posts. This month of Dice and Dragons is hosting the RPG Bloggers’ Carnival and in honor of Halloween, we’re traveling to Spooky Spots! What is a spooky spot? It’s a…

It’s All About Location . . . .

or to be more specific, location description. This month the folks at Campaign Mastery are hosting a blog carnival and the topic is location, something that every RPG GM and player most likely knows something about. We all have our favorites, places we’ve read about or maybe have played in, what makes them special? What…

I’m stuck, Abulafia help me!

We’ve all been in that place, you’re working along and you need some help with an item description, or the name of a location, or . . . . You get the picture. To get that help point your browser at Abulafia (www.random-generator.com) and pick an appropriate generator (there’s a link to all of them…

Providing Choices to your Players [revisit]

I was weeding through the comments posted a couple of days ago (I had a big influx of visitors thanks to Twitter) and a post that I had made back in 2006 came up – Improving Your Storytelling – Provide Choices – the comment was from Leet_Master_Ace: Could you provide an example? I’m guilty of…