The start of a new year is traditionally a time that motivate people to change. For some people this means an attempt to lose a bad habit, but true adventurers are in the last stage of preparation for their spring departure – to go over the next hill, across the ocean, down into the depths of subterranean realms, or into deep space, to explore the strange new lands that lie beyond.This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is about new worlds, about their discovery and about the women, men, and other sentient humanoids who explore and colonize them. Do you run an exploration-centric campaign? Maybe a hexcrawl in a fantasy world, or about setting up a colony on an alien planet? Share your methods – what aspects do you emphasize, and how do you handle them? How do you create a sense of wonder, and maintain it? What strange lands are your characters exploring? What equipment are they using? What vehicles or other means of transportation – a wagon train, flotilla of barques, or slower-than-light Sleeper Ship? Who are your explorers, what motivates them, and who are their patrons and followers? What equipment helps them? What obstacles lie in their paths?
Share your new lands with us, if you can do so without spoiling them for your party. Show off your maps and designs. How do you approach setting up your worlds? Share your favorite world-building tips!
The RPGBA Blog Carnival
The Blog Carnival provides a monthly topic to inspire RPG bloggers to post about. December’s topic was “With A Twist”, check out the round-up post; and a full archive of topics is available if you’d like to see what was done in the past.
To participate, you simply post about the topic in any shape, way or form and post a link to your article as a comment to this introduction post. At the end of the month I’ll post a round-up with links to every post so readers have one central place to look up everything.
Enjoy… and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Update, February 1st: The Roundup has been posted.
Happy to hand over the reigns of the Blog Carnival, Nils, and good luck with it! I should have something to contribute a few weeks from now 🙂
Thanks Mike! 🙂 Looking forward to it.
I’ve started my January posts with a short intro to the New Lands, a colonial setting: http://www.enderra.com/2015/01/06/a-new-world-part-1-the-new-lands/
I’ve created a map of my campaign, which takes place in a failing colony.
https://cirsova.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/rpg-blog-carnival-a-map-of-alfheim/
Realmwright posted an article about “Worldbuilding for Beginners (a.k.a. Newbuilders)”. The pingback didn’t make it I guess.
http://realmwright.blogspot.de/2015/01/worldbuilding-for-beginners-aka.html
Hi Nils,
A great choice of theme for the start of the year.
I have uploaded a post at Tales of a GM, about using DramaSystem to collaborate with the Players to create elements of the setting:
http://talesofagm.com/?p=1752
Glad to be part of the Carnival.
All the best
Phil
Hi Nils, just in case the pingback doesn’t make it, here’s Campaign Mastery’s contribution (and the start of an 11-part series on creating fresh campaigns ot rejuvenating an old one): “New Beginnings: Introduction” http://www.campaignmastery.com/blog/new-beginnings-0/
I’ve posted an Entry on this month’s Blog Carnival: A New Year, A New World. Thanks for hosting this month!
http://www.creativemountaingames.com/2015/01/the-friday-grab-bag-blog-carnival-new.html
Here’s my entry based upon a campaign idea I toyed around with a few years back:
http://www.generaltangent.com/blog/2015/01/24/rpg-blog-carnival-january-2015-a-new-year-a-new-world/
I just posted an article for this month’s Blog carnival
Thanks for your contributions guys!
I’ve continued my own series with Part2 (Assumptions):
http://www.enderra.com/2015/01/11/a-new-world-part-2-assumptions/
Part 3 (The Colony):
http://www.enderra.com/2015/01/12/a-new-world-part-3-whats-the-colony-like/
And Part 4 (First map):
http://www.enderra.com/2015/01/25/a-new-world-part-4-mapping-the-coastline/
The first half of my entry: http://ageofravens.blogspot.com/2015/01/23-things-about-masks-of-empire-part-one.html
Hey Nils, thanks for hosting and picking a great topic. Here’s my entry – http://worldbuilderblog.me/2015/01/27/bioarcane-items/
Finally got around to my entry
http://5egrognard.blogspot.com/2015/01/world-of-troika.html