December ’13 RPG Blog Carnival: Taking Charge
This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is being hosted here on Casting Shadows and is on the topic of Taking Charge. “Of what?” you may ask, or “By whom?” These and other questions are what will be uncovered as the month proceeds and participating blogs add their contributions to the Carnival.
A blog carnival is a cooperative posting event on a specified topic or themes across a spectrum of familiar and unfamiliar blogs. Each blog offers one or more post on the topic as they see it and so, in a virtual way, the carnival travels from place to place revealing more and more attractions, wonders, and the occasional life-changing Ferris Wheel ride.
To follow the carnival, check back regularly through the month and read the comments list on this post where participants will be leaving links with their articles. At the end of the month, a wrap-up post will be made on this site [link due: Dec. 31, 2013] conveniently listing all the links for easy access. Past blogs can be accessed from the Archive, which is currently being maintained by the RPG Blog Alliance.
To participate in the carnival is easy, once you have written a post on the topic, leave a comment on this page with a direct link. You can use the Blog Carnival image on your post to single it out for easy recognition by your readership. If you contribute more than one post, link them together and leave a link for each one here in the comments as each one goes live.
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Hi Runeslinger,
My contribution to the Blog Carnival is an article on Tales of a GM about the new Social Contract that we have, in the hope of avoiding the game implosion that we suffered last month, as described in the November Carnival article.
The text of our new Social Contract can be found here;
http://talesofagm.com/?p=379
All the best
Phil
Sounds perfect, Phil!
Hello, Runeslinger!
I hope this post suffices as a discussion of taking charge. It’s something of a shameless plug for my own RPG, but I feel that there are real inherent strengths to my game that translate directly to taking charge.
http://tinyd10.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/taking-charge-of-the-adventure/
If not, and it turns out that it’s just a shameless, no-good, dirty plug, I take no offense at having it removed. 🙂
Thanks!
Aaron
It would be nice if it actually addressed the Carnival, linked to this page, and included the usual blurb about how to participate, but the post itself is otherwise on topic.
As you say, the tips you offer are broadly applicable and all about taking charge of presenting a good session or series of sessions.
Great! I’ll make those changes now.
Mark Knights contributed this piece on adapting to an entirely new gaming system, which in his case was Lords of Gossamer and Shadow which uses the diceless system developed for Eric Wujick’s beloved Amber game.
http://www.thepathfinderchronicles.com/2013/12/game-mastering-diceless-system-lords-of.html
Hola! Here’s my entry into the carnival http://www.trollishdelver.com/2013/12/december-rpg-blog-carnival-getting-your.html
Hi, I’d like to leave a link to my contribution to the Carnival.
By the way, loved the theme!
Thanks for contributing~
You hit the theme square on
I wrote about when to take charge in my blog post today.
http://towerofthearchmage.blogspot.com/2013/12/gms-are-worst-players.html
Cheers!
Nice! Thanks for contributing~