Casting Shadows

The December RPG Blog Carnival for 2011 was on the theme Heroes – Living and Dead, and drew a solid range of posts from the technical through the speculative and on into the introspective. Each in their own way is well worth a read, and I suspect that as different heroes speak to different people among us, so too will different readers find their attention taken by different aspects of the tales and theories shared here. I hope that each of you will take the time to read each of these; you never know where a hero may be hidden – waiting for the right moment to be called.

Roles, Dice, and Fun

• On Death’s Threshold

Black Campbell

•  Heroes Living and Dead
• Creating Rich Characters

Skyland Games

• Heroes Living and Dead

The Delvers

• Honeymoon Adventure

Exchange of Realities

• The Generic Villain on Dead Heroes
• Characterization Exercise: Define Hero
• The Paradox of Heroic Sacrifice
• Why I Don’t Build Heroes
• Impractical Applications: Hero

Tower of the Archmage

• I need a hero

Nevermet Press

• Musings on Krampus: Anti-Heroes and Adventure
• The Heroes of 4E

The Action Point

• My PLAYERS are Heroes, Regardless of Their Characters

The Gassy Gnoll

• Heroes Great and Small

Berin Kinsman

• We can be heroes

Rhetorical Gamer

• Heroes, Heroes, Heroes

Casting Shadows

• We Could Be Heroes
• Calls to Harms
• In the footsteps of giants
• HEX Story Seed 
• Palladium Fantasy Story Seed 
• Generic Fantasy Story Seed

Thanks very much to all those who participated in producing material for this carnival, and for all of those who have taken the time to readthe posts as the carnival progressed. The RPG Blog Carnival for January 2012 will be hosted by KJ Davies Blog and will be on the topic of Fantastic Places. See you there~