Home-brew or Published?

I thought I would start the year off polling the community at large, do you use a home-brew campaign setting or do you prefer to use a published campaign? I’ve never been a big fan of published campaign settings, it just a personal taste. I’ve always preferred creating my own setting, pulling together all the…

October 2014 Blog Carnival Wrap-up

The stakes have been pulled out of the ground (and a few corpses) and the RPG Blog Carnival has moved over to Roleplaying Tips to talk about races, but before you head over there to find out what’s going on, here’s a quick run down of the October posts. One last thing before we get…

October 2014 Blog Carnival: Things that go bump in the night

  From goulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night Good Lord, deliver us! – The Cornish and West Country Litany, 1926 Update: The blog carnival is over – be sure to check out the wrap-up. Once again into the darkness of the All Hallows Eve the RPGA Carnival…

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…