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…
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…
If you’re like many Game Masters you want to fill your world with memorable characters. Those characters that stick in the minds of your players long after the campaign is over and the PCs have been put away (my group will never forget Pix, but that’s another story). Sometimes trying to fill in all those…
Today over on Critical Hits Vanir posted about Momentum for your D&D game and his challenges with it. It’s a good read and it echoes challenges I’m sure many of us have encountered over the years. While he talked about momentum, which is good if you have it, and how to get things rolling again…
In my recent post Getting Organized to Create My New Campaign I mentioned that I was planning on using Evernote as my tool for organizing my materials. I’m sure more than a few folks scratched their heads and thought “why the hell would you pick that tool?” A fair question and here’s a list of…
Organization is the key to any successful campaign – not just in warfare but also in gaming. In the past I’ve always grown the organizational scheme for my campaigns organically but this time I felt I needed to take a different path. In my last post, Knowing when to say goodbye, I stated that I…
